What Bird is That? Posted: 9 months ago by chinook
See a bird and have no clue what it is? This website is a fantastic search engine for wild birds and guides you through choosing its shape, colour, habitat and call and helps you identify the bird!
I find this site super useful and always refer to it when I venture out of my province.
"That Bird is a Liar!"
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New fossil bird found Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
The new bird, Eoconfuciusornis is the oldest known confuciusornithid, a group unique to China. It therefore represents an early stage in bird evolution. Confuciusornithids lived from 120-131 million years ago and include the oldest birds with horny beaks.
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Bird Flu Thwarts Jet Flight For Vulture Posted: 2 years ago by suebe
Fears of bird flu thwarted the flight, and the vulture was freed in northern Thailand on Thursday, thousands of miles from home. China and South Korea refused to let the bird be flown through their capitals, despite tests showing it did not have bird flu.
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Bird grilled, but lives to tell tale Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A wild bird is little worse for wear after being hit by a car while crossing a road, then spending two days trapped behind the car's grille. Connie Ankli said she unknowingly drove around with the bird, believed to be a quail, inside her vehicle's front end.
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Giant bird can't takeoff Posted: 2 years ago by kxmk
Texas Tech University used computer programs originally designed for aircraft to analyze the probable flight characteristics of Argentavis magnificens, a giant bird that lived in South America 6 million years ago.
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Did eaten bird claw its way through hawk? Posted: 9 months ago by arsphidius
Bird of prey found dead along road had claw sticking through its chest.
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Loyal little bird Posted: 2 months ago by AutumnLotus
The photographs you are about to see show how a very determined male bird tries to save his female mate that has been seriously injured.
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New bird discovered in Indonesia Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
A small greenish bird that has been playing hide-and-seek with ornithologists on a remote Indonesian island since 1996 was declared a newly discovered species on Friday and promptly recommended for endangered lists. The new species is called the Togian white-eye, or Zosterops somadikartai.
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Bird on Fire Blamed for 2 Acre Wildfire Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A bird that caught fire after being electrocuted at a substation is suspected of igniting a 2 acre wildfire Monday.
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Alaska Bird Makes Longest Nonstop Flight Ever Measured Posted: 1 year ago by maxriter
A shorebird called a bar-tailed godwit, like the one pictured here, was recently found to have flown 7,145 miles (11,500 kilometers) nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand, the longest uninterrupted bird migration ever recorded, scientists say.
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Cosmic Bird? Triple Cosmic Collision Of Galaxies Stuns Astronomers Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a stunning rare case of a triple merger of galaxies. This system, which astronomers have dubbed 'The Bird' - albeit it also bears resemblance with a cosmic Tinker Bell - is composed of two massive spiral galaxies and a third irregular galaxy.
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Wayward bird slams into driver’s head Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
The wayward bird flew through the window, slamming into the side of the driver’s head.
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Pro Golfer Charged With Killing Protected Bird With Golf Ball Posted: 10 months ago by moe
Tripp Isenhour has been charged in Orlando with intentionally killing a protected bird with a golf shot.
He apparently was pissed off because it was squawking while they were trying to film a video segment. So yea, he was totally justified.
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Birds Explode After Eating Rice Posted: 12 months ago by donteatpoop
Turns out this is absolutely false. I always believed it. That's a shame, really; I was hoping to see a bird explode one day.
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Newspaper helps reunite boy with his bird Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A 7-year-old Bethpage, N.Y., boy has been reunited with his pet finch three weeks after it disappeared.
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Boeing 757 + Bird = fire and serious fear Posted: 2 years ago by wildminou
watch this takeoff going bad when a bird was ingested by the engine of the plane
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Thousands of ducks dying in Idaho. Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
Officials scrambled on Wednesday to determine what has caused the deaths of thousands of mallard ducks in south-central Idaho near the Utah border.
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Sesame Street Bird Flu Posted: 2 years ago by BrownTrout
Looks like Big Bird is a gonner...
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Bird Flu Kills 150th Person; May Have Infected Victim's Brain Posted: 2 years ago by robfouryqr
Bird flu may have infected an Indonesian woman's brain before it killed her yesterday, marking the 150th fatality caused by the virus worldwide since late 2003.
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Falling Bird Prank Posted: 2 years ago by sbalaciu
Falling Bird Prank [video]
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Google Earth: bird flu supermap Posted: 2 years ago by TheStep
You can download a Google Earth file that shows the cases of bird flu outbreaks, and how they're linked with a 'tree'.
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