Turkey Vultures Take Over Indiana Yard
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MUNCIE, Ind. - Turkey vultures have taken over Gwendolyn Griem's backyard and made a mess of it.  Around 50 of the soaring, carrion-consuming birds have flocked to Griem's yard in a gated subdivision in Muncie.
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Experts try to determine the source of an outbreak of bird flu as a mass cull of turkeys nears its end.
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Imperiled seabirds worldwide have benefited from the restoration techniques pioneered in Eastern Egg Rock, Me.
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Wildlife researchers leading a flock of young whooping cranes south for the winter are warning people to stay out of their way after an apparently curious ultralight pilot disturbed the endangered birds.
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By RELMA HARGUS  A Thanksgiving trip Keri Bryan and her family took to the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas brought them into the presence of a record number of wild whooping cranes.  Whooping cranes have been endangered for years.
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Indian conservationists have successfully bred a rare species of vulture, brought near to extinction by a drug used to treat cattle but which is highly toxic to the scavenging birds.
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EZBET SIDI OMAR, Egypt  - When Attia Abdel-Hamid Hassan notices the chickens or ducks that he keeps at home in Egypt's Nile Delta starting to wobble on their feet, he puts them in a sack and drowns them in an irrigation canal.
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The Interior Department had tried to limit a separate set of protections for the majestic bird that has served as a national symbol for centuries.
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Bernard Matthews, the owner of the farm where the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was found last week, is under investigation for apparently transporting turkeys from a restricted zone in Hungary to its British farm, it was reported.
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WHITTIER, Iowa - Commuters say a wild turkey nicknamed Jake is causing a daily traffic hold up in this eastern Iowa city.  Jake stations himself next to the road, ready to run off any vehicle that slows down for a better look, said Melissa Davidson, who lives nearby.
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Amid an intense lobbying effort by energy and ranching interests in the West, a team of Interior Department biologists has recommended that the sage grouse, a bird
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two West Virginia turkeys have been dispatched to Washington to await a presidential pardon on Wednesday.  The National Thanksgiving Turkey and its alternate were chosen Tuesday from about 30 male turkeys raised on the Hardy County farm of Kevin Foltz.
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High winds in central Indiana today kept a flock of 14-young whooping cranes from continuing their journey south to Florida. The birds and their human guides in ultralight planes are in Boone County, having
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Some wild turkeys, it appears, were trying to get out of New Jersey before Thanksgiving Day.
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MONTEREY, Calif. - A menagerie, some 86 critters in all, were found in a Fort Ord home.
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The state banned all live poultry sales and shows for the rest of July after avian flu antibodies were discovered in a flock of 54,000 turkeys on a Shenandoah County farm.
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Thousands of turkeys face culling after a bird flu outbreak on a Suffolk farm is confirmed as the H5N1 strain.