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Ecological toll of Japan’s switch to farming revealed by 1850s maps
Ishikari Lowland in Japan was converted to farmland beginning 150 years ago, and an analysis suggests it has experienced a 70 per cent drop in bird numbers since then
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Flocks of jackdaws ‘democratically’ decide when to take flight at once
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Clever birds forced to find new homes as Cambridge lab faces closure
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Male manakin birds with acrobatic mating dances evolved smaller bodies
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Common swifts enter hibernation-like torpor on cold nights
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Male crossbills grow redder feathers when they exercise harder
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Songbirds are more colourful the closer they live to the equator
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Crows may owe their intelligence to an abundance of certain neurons
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Ostrich necks act as a radiator to control their head temperature
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Seabird discovered by science this year may be critically endangered
Scientists estimate there are just 100 to 1000 breeding pairs of New Caledonia storm petrels, which have been identified on the South Pacific Ocean
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Why are flamingos pink?
Humans
The Parrot in the Mirror review: Why humans evolved to be like birds
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Wild Wild Life newsletter: When species steal each other’s genes
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Physics
Giving drones barn owl-like tails may make them more efficient flyers
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