Birds die for decorating drums in India
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KOLKATA, India  - Thousands of protected birds are   being killed in India's West Bengal state to meet demand from   drummers who want to decorate their instruments with feathers,   officials and activists said.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - A strain of bird  flu blamed for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in  Malaysia, the government said on Thursday, as hundreds of birds  were gassed and their carcasses burned to contain the outbreak.
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Some 23 tigers in a private zoo inThailand have suspectedly died of avian influenza virus, officialssaid here on Tuesday. The authorities are conducting test over samples of
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KOLKATA, India  - Bird flu spread to two new districts in an eastern Indian state, officials confirmed on Saturday, as veterinary staff struggled to cull thousands of birds in the face of resistance from farmers.
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By DEEPAK SHARMA  AMRITSAR, India - Two young Royal Bengal tigers died unexpectedly at a zoo in India where dozens of lions have already died young, possibly because of a breeding program that produced weak animals, a conservator said Thursday.
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SALMON, Idaho  - Two thousand mallard ducks in Idaho likely died after they ate moldy grain and contracted a fatal infection, scientists said on Thursday.
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Birds living in cities are performing a form of "avian rap" to counter urban noise, a study suggests.
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Authorities begin culling thousands of poultry birds in the Indian state of West Bengal, suspecting an outbreak of the deadly bird flu.
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The bird flue-like disease is killing chickens in Indonesia&#39;s Central Java, but a local officialsaid on Tuesday the symptoms shown were not as same as that of thebird flu.
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BERLIN -- Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.
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A state in northern India has ordered a probe into sudden deaths of a pair of apparently healthy rare tigers in a government zoo, a report has said.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - A strain of bird  flu blamed for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in  Malaysia for the first time, the government said on Thursday as  hundreds of birds were culled to contain the outbreak.
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One of Earth&#39;s rarest birds might have gone into extinction following the death of one of the last known po&#39;ouli. The aging male po&#39;ouli died in captivity
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At least 23 three tigers have died at a zoo in Thailand after they ate raw chicken infected with bird flu, reports the BBC. Up to 30 more tigers are reported to be ill at the The Sriracha Tiger Zoo in central
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(Corrects fifth paragraph to say most geese in Hungary case were slaughtered, not killed by bird flu)
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A new bird species has been found in India, the first time such a discovery has been made here in more than 50 years, an astronomer and keen bird watcher said Tuesday.
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The death has prompted officials to change the habitats of some zoo animals.