Researchers Try to Breed Rare Sea Ducks
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Researchers at the Alaska Sealife Center are poking into the private lives of Steller's eiders &#151; a rare sea duck that is disappearing from its nesting grounds in Alaska.
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Government scientists - sure that somewhere out there a bird flu virus has humanity&#39;s name on it - are speeding up efforts to understand how the viruses evolve and spread.
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By Steve Connor  Thousands of species of marine animals have been discovered by a team of biologists investigating the rich ocean wildlife living around the Philippine island of Panglao.
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In the midst of Australia's largest city, a rare colony of fairy penguins is being replenished by birds bred in the local zoo after coming under threat from cats, dogs and jetski-riding hooligans.
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Recent studies have shown that waterfowl are a crucial link in the spread of East Asia's avian influenza epidemic.
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In the search for a missing  evolutionary link to modern whales, scientists have come up  with an unlikely land cousin -- a raccoon-sized creature with  the body of a small deer.
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Scientists in Dundee find a potential link between a chicken gene and human diseases.
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By JOE MACALUSO  If you're wondering why teams of biologists spend so much time doing work like banding mottled ducks, then look outside Louisiana to find the big reason.  Mottled ducks are native here. The don't migrate.
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Scientists who spent nearly a month in  a fruitless search for a Chinese river dolphin that is more  endangered than the Giant Panda say there may be no more than  50 left alive, the Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
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CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- After years of painstaking research, scientists say they have unleashed a baby boom among one of the world's most endangered animals, China's giant panda.
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While "serious" birders in the U.S. disdain non-native ducks and geese, one birding columnist enjoys observing the many species that have made California their home.
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A wild bird which died of avian flu in Hong Kong is being tested for the lethal strain that has killed 32 people in Southeast Asia this year.
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Wildlife experts from around 60 countries gathered in Scotland Monday to push for an agreement to help save rare, migratory birds of prey.
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Hoping to monitor penguins unobtrusively, scientists are testing a tag made of silicone rubber. Stainless steel tags used currently can impede the birds' ability to hunt.
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Find out why breeding and raising chicks along the boulder-strewn Antarctic coast is no cakewalk for these small seabirds.
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Wild ducks in Pennsylvania have tested positive for bird flu, but not the deadly Asian strain that has ravaged poultry and killed at least 141 people worldwide, the Agriculture Department said Saturday.
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Florida marine biologists are working on a new tail for a baby