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Two thick-billed murres

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Young seabird couples get 'divorced' with little immediate benefit

Thick-billed murres normally mate for life, but young couples are more likely to break up, despite seeing no benefit to mating success the next year

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Male cockatoos make customised drumsticks for their mating displays

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Gannets prefer to roll either right or left when they dive

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Animal motion-capture studio tracks bird flocks and insect swarms

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Nearly every kakapo's genome has been sequenced to help save them

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Emperor penguin colonies lost all their chicks due to ice breakup

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An unusual gentoo penguin with dark pigmentation

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Extremely rare black penguin spotted in Antarctica

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Do honeyguides really help honey badgers find bees’ nests?

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Sick blackbirds go to bed earlier just like us

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Nightingales match the pitch of their rivals in singing duels

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Nightingales match the pitch of their rivals in singing duels

Male nightingales respond to each other’s songs by whistling back at the same pitch when competing for territory, and they even copy the pitch of artificial whistle sounds

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Red-billed choughs return to south-east England after 200 years

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What an Owl Knows review: Inside the world of this mysterious bird

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Unique egg patterns help drongos avoid getting duped by cuckoos

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Birds from two different species raise chicks together in one nest

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