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The unlikely comeback of America’s most endangered songbird
Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off ...
The surprisingly relatable reason why some birds get cranky
A new study shows that one group of Galápagos yellow warblers responds to intruders more aggressively than others. It adds ...
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If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky, They’d Look Like This
This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If birds left tracks in the sky, what would they look like? For years Barcelona-based photographer Xavi Bou has been ...
A clever cockatoo picked up a human skill—and then it spread
In suburban Sydney, sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) previously figured out how to break into garbage bins and ...
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Think ‘Birdbrain’ Is an Insult? Think Again.
Birds, it turns out ... This story appears in the February 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The American crows in Gabriella Mann’s Seattle Neighborhood love her, and the eight ...
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New Bird of Paradise Species Has Smooth Dance Moves
The birds also sing slightly different songs: While the superb makes a loud squawking noise, the Vogelkop has a more pleasant, tonal call. Scholes and Laman—a National Geographic explorer ...
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These birds are keeping a record of humanity—one wrapper at a time
An advertisement for the 1994 World Cup, fast food wrappers, COVID-19 masks—what birds used to build their nests reflects a world with more plastic. A coot bird in London on a nest made of twigs ...
How the Old Masters painted animals: dragonfly wings and butterfly dust
A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.