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Birds in Patagonia have a surprising taste for truffles
Truffles, the fruiting bodies of certain fungi, rely on mammals to eat them and spread their spores 鈥� and in Patagonia, it turns out birds help with dispersal too
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Sri Lanka’s civil war left a lasting fear in the country’s birds
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Birds flocked to North American cities during covid-19 lockdowns
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Wild cockatoos make utensils out of tree branches to open fruit pits
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Magic trick reveals sharp memory and future planning in Eurasian jays
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Birds get angry when their favourite snacks are swapped in magic trick
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Male woodpeckers that share mates with brothers live longer lives
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Endangered maleo bird of Indonesia bouncing back from the brink
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Male birds鈥� feathers become duller when wildfires burn their habitats
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We may finally know how migrating birds sense Earth’s magnetic field
A molecule in the eyes of migrating birds called cryptochrome 4 is sensitive to magnetism, potentially giving the animals an internal compass
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Seagull eggs in the UK have been contaminated with plastic additives
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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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