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Birds can thank attractive dinosaurs for their flight feathers
Birds' feathers are so complicated that it was a mystery how they evolved. The answer might be a rare combination of natural and sexual selection
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Dark feathers give birds hot wings that may save energy during flight
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Flightless bird three times the size of an ostrich used to roam Europe
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This South American potoo bird can camouflage itself as a branch
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Plan to remove hen harrier eggs and raise them in captivity criticised
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The evolution of Archaeopteryx is stranger than anyone imagined
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Working hypothesis: from buzzwords to Amazon workers
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Putting a bird feeder in your garden really does help wildlife
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Birds introduced to Hawaii have evolved rapidly in just decades
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Meet the white-tailed eagles making a comeback in the UK
White-tailed eagles like this fishing bird made their comeback in Scotland in the 1970s. Now there's a plan to reintroduce the birds in the south of England
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Weird chromosome may have spurred evolution of thousands of songbirds
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How did the ancient Egyptians catch and mummify millions of ibises?
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Have people in the UK really been banned from shooting wood pigeons?
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Baby boom for the kakapo, New Zealand鈥檚 critically endangered parrot
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