Birds

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Picture of the Week—Laysan Albatross Pair

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Filling in the Dinosaur Family Tree

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Migratory Canada Geese Brought Down Flight 1549

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Swimming Proto-Birds?

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Tianyulong: An Unexpectedly Fuzzy Dinosaur

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Picture of the Week—Great Egret

Voting continues for the Reader's Choice in Smithsonian magazine's 6th Annual Photo Contest

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Book Review: How to Build a Dinosaur

After discovering a new species of bird, research ornithologist Brian Schmidt made sure to give it a proper name: "stout bird that bears a flam-colored throat."

Naming a New Species

Smithsonian naturalist Brian Schmidt gave a new species of African bird an interesting scientific name

Dr. Edward Arnett (in the orange vest), a scientist with Bat Conservation International and his bat-finding labrador retriever accompany plant manager Chris Long at the Casselman Wind Power Project in Pennsylvania.

Can Wind Power Be Wildlife Friendly

New research aims to stop turbines from killing bats and birds

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Which Dinosaur Would You Clone?

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Book Review: Feathered Dinosaurs

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Dispatch from AAAS—The Greater Sage Grouse Fembot

This weekend, blog overseer Laura and I are writing from the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago

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Ornithological Data From Your Own Backyard

It's time to fill up the birdfeeders, pull out the field guide, and polish your binocular lenses

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Darwin and the Dinosaurs

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Picture of the Week — Emperor Penguins

Can cuteness save the Emperor penguin?

A US Air Force Boeing 707 disturbs a colony of sooty terns during takeoff.

The Perils of Bird-Plane Collisions

When airlines want to investigate dangerous bird strikes against planes, they turn to the head of the Smithsonian’s Feather Identification Lab

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What Happens When You Remove the Cats From a Rabbit-Laden Island?

Australians of European descent might be forgiven for thinking they could turn the continent into another Europe

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A Giant Winged Platypus?

Foxes ate so many Aleutian cackling geese that by 1940, the birds were thought to be extinct.

Wild Goose Chase

How one man's obsession saved an "extinct" species

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Taking a Closer Look at Archaeopteryx

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