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Starving bald eagle chicks hint at ecosystem collapse in Florida

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Starving bald eagle chicks hint at ecosystem collapse in Florida

Florida Bay eagles feed their chicks much less food than birds in other regions, nest cameras reveal, suggesting the ecosystem doesn’t have enough of their prey

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giant frigatebird on the wing

Life

Roller-coasting birds soar for months and may snooze while aloft

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A round, smooth lump of amber in which a fossilised wing can be seen

Life

Beautifully preserved feathers belonged to tiny flying dinosaurs

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Two budgies sit on a branch facing one another

Life

Budgies use grammar to find meaning in unfamiliar phrases

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diving duck

Life

Eider duck caught diving beneath the Norwegian waves

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spring books

Life

Culture picks: Time to spring-clean your mind

Culture

A red knot, which is brown, on the shoreline, with a white clam in its bill

Earth

Earlier ice melt in the Arctic cuts survival of birds in Africa

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A pygmy bushtit

Environment

Smallest perching bird’s long-lost family revealed by genetics

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migrating bird

Life

Common UK migrating birds are arriving earlier or leaving later

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A male red-cockaded woodpecker revealing his red cockade

Earth

Woodpeckers carry wood-eating fungi that may help them dig holes

Red-cockaded woodpeckers carry spores of wood-decaying fungi on their beaks, wings and feet, which could make it easier for them to excavate cavities

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Life

Rare Australian bird farms nourishing manna from trees

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Life

Bald ibis among wildlife driven to extinction in Syria and Libya

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Life

Ravens' fear of unseen snoopers hints they have theory of mind

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Life

Europe's song birds perfect their tunes when wintering in Africa

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