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![Loggerhead shrike on barbed wire.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UZRS2KpLz6FMLWwMvsTfAC-320-80.jpg)
Loggerhead shrike: The brutal 'butcherbird' that impales its prey on barbed wire
By Megan Shersby published
Loggerhead shrikes can kill prey bigger than themselves by stabbing and shaking them, before impaling them on sticks to eat later.
![photo of a small bird perched on a branch with vibrant blue feathers on one side of its body and green ones on the other](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iBqQ5tAEgGnRbuyzrtLXgS-320-80.jpg)
See 'incredible' photos of bird that is both male and female
By Patrick Pester published
This green honeycreeper has male plumage on one half of its body and female plumage on the other half.
![A murmuration of starlings in Rome.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jufMWnXXaqcig6R6xotwiB-320-80.jpg)
Watch thousands of starlings perform an 'incredible ballet of life and death' in new murmuration footage
By Sascha Pare published
Over the past six years, Danish photographer Søren Solkær has followed huge flocks of starlings, known as murmurations, across Europe to film and photograph their breathtaking aerial acrobatics.
![A colony of Chinstrap penguins.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ovyBvPAnfU9G6UwTebvDYf-320-80.jpg)
Weird Chinstrap penguins sleep over 10,000 times a day for just 4 seconds at a time
By Ben Turner published
The penguins accrue 11 hours of cumulative sleep a day from a bizarre adaptation that enables them to doze as they guard their nests.
![a barn swallow sitting on a tree branch in the Sahara desert during a sandstorm](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cZBwbmfohBGyTJNxXksrvC-320-80.jpg)
Stunning footage captures tiny bird's fight for survival in massive Saharan sandstorm
By Hannah Osborne published
First of its kind footage captured for National Geographic's "Incredible Animal Journeys" shows a barn swallow caught in a sandstorm as part of its migration through the Sahara Desert.
![Photo of fossilised bird footprint with 3 digits](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xJkQnLgDAHAWj2htVbEZEM-320-80.jpg)
120 million-year-old birds tracks near South Pole are the oldest ever discovered in the Southern Hemisphere
By Carys Matthews published
Fossilized bird tracks discovered in Australia show these ancient creatures lived in the southern polar regions on the supercontinent of Gondwana.
![Two brown skua birds, brown gull type birds, with sharp beaks and webbed feet, stand on green and brown cliffs on Bird Island, with blue water and sky behind them.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Sk5NgEY8HkpySQ6EEd9M3E-320-80.jpg)
1st-known 'highly pathogenic' bird flu cases in Antarctic could threaten penguins
By Nicoletta Lanese published
The British Antarctic Survey detected cases of highly pathogenic bird flu in seabirds on Bird Island, located in the Antarctic region in the South Atlantic.
![A group of geese take off on a long flight](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EqswQGyLVQ5BhzWM6f46bV-320-80.jpg)
Upcoming solar maximum could scramble migrating birds' internal compass, new study shows
By Harry Baker published
By analyzing how birds migrated across the U.S. over a 23-year period, researchers have shown that solar weather events can seriously disrupt the navigation of the wandering avians.
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