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Speedy bat flies at 160km/h, smashing bird speed record

Life

Speedy bat flies at 160km/h, smashing bird speed record

Brazilian free-tailed bats may have snatched the title for the fastest muscle-powered flight, outpacing even the record-holding common swift

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Single swift against grey sky

Life

Swifts break record by staying aloft for 10 months at a time

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Thousands of animals flock to annual party hosted by starlings

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Thousands of animals flock to annual party hosted by starlings

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A flock of birds flying close together

Life

Budgies reveal the rule that means birds never collide in flight

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blue-capped cordon-bleu bird

Life

Tap-dancing songbirds drum with their feet to attract mates

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White gull against backdrop of sea and ice

Earth

White gulls dependent on ice are disappearing from the Arctic

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pharaoh eagle-owl

Life

Swooping pharaoh eagle-owl hunts in the desert

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two zebra finches

Life

Birds sing to their unborn chicks to warn them about hot weather

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Sheldon and Cole

Life

Enter an ecologist's playground with the birdman of Wytham Woods

Features

First evidence birds nap in flight without dropping out of sky

Life

First evidence birds nap in flight without dropping out of sky

Brain recorders fitted to 14 great frigatebirds show these birds sleep on the wing, usually while circling in rising air currents

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Technology

Detective gulls sniff out illegally dumped trash from the skies

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Life

Crows are first animals spotted using tools to carry objects

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Whooping crane recovery puts human chick 'parents' out of a job

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Life

Storks dine out on giant landfill sites instead of migrating

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