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Birds

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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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Dinosaur Death Trap

Mark Catesby's Blue Jay.

Mark Catesby’s New World

The artist sketched American wildlife for Europe’s high society, educating them on the creatures living among the unexplored lands

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Cook Your Bird with Thermite!

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Annual Dinosaur Dissection Day

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T. Rex: The Other White Meat?

A San Francisco resident has learned that wild male turkeys can gobble on cue.

Jukebox: A Choir of Turkeys

Wild turkeys gobble on cue

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