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Life

Birds can learn to understand the meanings of other species’ calls

The superb fairy-wren takes advantage of the vigilance of others by teaching itself to recognise the alarm calls sent out by different species

Penguin

Environment

Hundreds of ancient mummified penguins found in Antarctic graveyard

loggerhead shrike

Life

Butcherbird uses vicious whiplash technique to kill its prey

Environment

The New York bird with a song that may be a thousand years old

Environment

Male peacocks can make females’ heads vibrate at a distance

Environment

Bent bird feathers repair themselves when soaked in water

Earth

The birds of South Georgia are finally safe from marauding rats

Earth

Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we’re to blame

Earth

World’s biggest bird feeder will use 500 tonnes of shellfish

Environment

How birds focus even with eyes on opposite sides of their heads

Birds find it difficult to fix their gaze on an object, because their eyes don’t face forwards, but one species has found an ingenious solution

Environment

Far from land: The emerging story of seabirds on the ocean

Earth

These searing hot chilli peppers are in danger thanks to snakes

Environment

Dinobird Archaeopteryx only flew in short bursts like a pheasant

Earth

Drones reveal huge colonies of 1.5 million penguins on islands