Birding Column: Enigma of the Band-Tailed Pigeon
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Once hunted by the thousands, the band-tailed pigeon is in decline. Mathew Tekulsky writes of the joy of seeing five or six of these big birds on his backyard feeder.
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A wetland bird that eluded scientists for nearly 130 years has been rediscovered at a wastewater treatment plant in Thailand, Birdlife International announced Wednesday.
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Rural wood pigeons are flocking to urban areas because of changes in farming, the British Trust for Ornithology says.
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After spending months in remote northwest Florida swamps searching for the ivory-billed woodpecker, researchers say they have seen and heard the rare bird once believed to be extinct.
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THE enduring mystery of why the chicken really did cross the road has come a step closer to being solved definitively, following a detailed analysis of the birdâs genetic blueprint.
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Birder Mathew Tekulsky describes the bathing habits of birds, explaining the dependence of birds on water.
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A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they started flying.
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The Calayan Rail, Gallirallus calayaensis, discovered by scientists in the northern tip of Babuyan islands in the Philippines archipelago. Photo: Des Allen/AP.
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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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[World News]: Washington, Nov 27 : Scientist have always wondered how pigeons manage to be such good navigators and have a &#39;nose for the north&#39; and now a new study has suggested that it is because they have small magnetic particles in their beaks, which
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So goes the familiar holiday tune. Unfortunately, this holiday season, scientists are heralding bad news for birds. New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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For scientists who recently recorded the shriek-like call of one of the world's rarest birds, the sound is music to their ears. (Includes audio)
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A bird species new to science has been found by researchers on a remote island in the northern Philippines.
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A previously unknown sub-species of bird has been found in the southern Nepal, scientists say.
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Last year&#39;s Christmas Bird Count in Missouri turned up a green heron, rarely seen in the state in the winter. Randy Korotev, one of the organizers, has no idea what birds will delight this year&#39;s counters.
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A new Audubon study is one of the most comprehensive looks at bird-population trends in North America.
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The Carolina parakeet, the only parrot that was native to South Carolina, vanished decades ago but in this age of high tech wizardry could DNA be used to bring the feathered creatures back?