Endangered Condors Return to Andes Skies
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Timidly taking its first steps in the wild, the young condor perches on a rocky plateau as a hot breeze swirls upward from the barren Patagonian landscape.
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University of California-Santa Cruz environmental toxicologists suggest ammunition is producing lead poisoning in condors.
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The bird, dubbed the &quot;Calayan Rail&quot;, is the size of a small crow and has dark brown plumage and bright orange-red legs and beak, said Carl Oliveros, who helped lead the expedition that found it.
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Do not approach a 'very large bird' called Emmy One of the world's largest birds, a Ruppell's Griffin Vulture called Emmy, is on the loose in Bedfordshire after escaping from the English School of Falconry on Wednesday.â¦
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Some of the flying mammals find their way home by sensing Earth's magnetic field, just like migrating birds, new research suggests.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Rescuers on Sunday cleared the thick jungle around the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger plane that crashed in the Amazon with 155 people on board, opening the way for teams to begin retrieving bodies.
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The bald eagle is out of the woods but other birds of prey are in trouble.
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Though a Federal Aviation Administration radio communications failure has not yet been fixed, administration spokesman Mike Fergus reports that flights are being allowed back into southern California.
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The feathered creatures winging across North America have an obvious gift that land-bound humans lack, but their survival is threatened by earthly concerns.
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TWITCHERS should book their plane tickets as soon as possible. Wildlife experts yesterday claimed to have discovered a new species of bird in the Philippines. But they immediately warned that the flightless Calayan rail could be driven to extinction by ...
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A wild-born condor chick has taken flight -- the first wild chick to fly in California in 22 years. The chick slowly began the process of fledging (first flight) by leaving the nest in early September and
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A fossil of a gliding animal shows that mammals experimented with flight around when birds first took to the skies.
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The Denver Zoo has a newly hatched Andean condor, only the second condor to hatch at a zoo anywhere in the world over the past year, zoo officials said Thursday.
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Cold, windburned and on the alert for polar bears, a Navy team recovered the last remains of aviators lost on a remote glacier in Greenland when their plane crashed more than 40 years ago.
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Rescue planes spotted wreckage from a missing Brazilian jetliner with 155 people on board, an airline spokesman told CNN on Saturday. The Gol plane disappeared while flying over dense Amazon rainforest on Friday evening. Some reports say it collided in midair with a smaller plane.
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As eco-lodges sprout under the forest canopy and guidebooks roll off the presses, Peru stands ready to showcase itself as a bird-watcher's paradise.
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Bald eagles, whose numbers dwindled in the 1960s, are once again flourishing, the interior secretary said Thursday.