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11-Year-Old Bird Artist Olivia Bouler Releases Book

Things 11-year-old Olivia Bouler has done in the last 12 months: Cleaned up a Gulf Coast beach with the Jonas Brothers Appeared on the "Today" show Wrote her first book, "Olivia's Birds: Saving the Gulf," released this week Received a glowing review for said book in Publisher's Weekly Raised more than...

Scientists: Ancient Bird Evolved 'Nunchuck' Wings

Scientists have discovered fossils in Jamaica of an extinct, flightless bird whose wings, they believe, evolved into huge bony clubs used to clobber predators. The chicken-sized bird, with a long beak and legs, couldn't fly and had no way to defend itself, aside from with its strong arm-wings. With thick, curved arm bones...

More Than 1,000 Dead Birds Plunge From Sky in Arkansas

BEEBE, Ark. -- Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said Saturday that it began receiving reports about the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. the previous night. The birds fell over a 1-mile...

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THE HUFFINGTON POST

11 Things You Didn't Know About Birds (PHOTOS)

Sociologists and cultural trend watchers have been decrying the broken connection between today's youth and nature.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Lights Out D.C. Campaign Targets Glass Buildings Deadly To Birds (PHOTOS)

At 5:30 a.m., retired ornithologist Jim Tate, who specializes in woodpecker tongues and public policy, is sitting on a ledge in the dark, holding a butterfly bag in one hand and a male yellow-throated warbler in the other.

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San Juan Capistrano Swallows: Love Song Soundtrack Lures Birds Back To Historic Calif. Mission

Reminders of the legend of the swallows are everywhere within the grounds of the historic Mission San Juan Capistrano: Tiny swallow silhouettes are etched into paving tiles, replicas of their distinctive mud nests hang from buildings and the gift shop overflows with swallow charms, figurines and postcards.

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A bird in the hand thanks to a robot that can perch

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are taking things up a notch with a bird-style bot capable of autonomous flight.

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06/03/12 Illegal Chinese bird's nests seized Source: Sky News - Australia Australian quarantine officers have seized $30,000 worth of illegally imported edible bird's nest at Sydney airport.
06/03/12 Counting crows . . . and other bird species during... Source: Greenwich Citizen - Greenwich CT Ted Gilman, education specialist at Audubon Greenwich, is the point man for two February national events for bird lovers.
06/03/12 3 peregrine falcon chicks hatch in Terre Haute Source: The Republic - Columbus IN Three peregrine falcons chicks have successfully hatched atop a 15-story building on the Indiana State University campus.
06/03/12 Bird lovers in heaven Source: Queensland Times THE biggest bird show in the state is on again in Ipswich.
06/03/12 Tell Me About It: For the birds Source: Van Wert Voice - Van Wert OH You either catch the bird in a mist net or a feeder trap.