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eggs of different sizes and colours

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Bird eggs may be shaped by the way their mother flies

Huge survey reveals that bird species spending more time on the wing tend to have long or pointy eggs

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Life aloft: The unexplored ecosystem above your head

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Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago is best ever found

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Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago is best ever found

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Hopping miniature parrots suggest how birds first got airborne

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Hopping miniature parrots suggest how birds first got airborne

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Side-by-side comparison of an Egyptian vulture with and without the mud make-up

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Vultures smear their faces in red mud which they use as makeup

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Polar bear eating eggs

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Polar bears shift from seals to bird eggs as Arctic ice melts

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Artist's impression of the large bird-like dinosaur

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Eggs four times bigger than ostriches’ reveal a giant dinosaur

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Australian night parrot

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Lazarus species: Five cool animals we wrongly believed extinct

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UK is failing to protect its marine areas

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UK does more to protect marine areas overseas than at home

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Robin on a nest

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Male robins can guess and satisfy their partner’s food cravings

Female birds incubating eggs get an itch for specific foods, and their male partners somehow know what they want and deliver it to them

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Lazy fit animals: How some beasts get the gain without the pain

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World's largest canary discovered on island of giants and dwarfs

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This bird has flown: Unravelling the mysteries of bird migration

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The beautiful bird corpses left by illegal Maltese sharpshooters

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