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birds

Bird magic

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Magic trick reveals sharp memory and future planning in Eurasian jays

Jay's response to magic tricks show cognitive abilities that may come into play when they pilfer food caches hidden by other birds.

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Life

Birds get angry when their favourite snacks are swapped in magic trick

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Acorn Woodpeckers

Life

Male woodpeckers that share mates with brothers live longer lives

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maleo bird

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Endangered maleo bird of Indonesia bouncing back from the brink

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Male birds’ feathers become duller when wildfires burn their habitats

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Male birds’ feathers become duller when wildfires burn their habitats

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Robin and magnetic field

Life

We may finally know how migrating birds sense Earth's magnetic field

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Seagull eggs in the UK have been contaminated with plastic additives

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Seagull eggs in the UK have been contaminated with plastic additives

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blue tit

Environment

Scottish blue tits mostly survive on food from garden bird feeders

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Some bird embryos know to hide from predators even inside their eggs

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Common swifts can fly more than 800 kilometres a day during migration

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Common swifts can fly more than 800 kilometres a day during migration

Common swifts make one of the longest migrations in the world, and they seem to time their departure to take advantage of good wind conditions so they can fly further faster

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Environment

There are 50 billion wild birds on Earth – but four species dominate

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Floating googly eyes on a stick scare seabirds away from fishing nets

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People living in the Atacama desert once traded exotic parrots

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Mysterious death of bald eagles in US explained by bromide poisoning

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