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See 'incredible' photos of bird that is both male and femaleThis green honeycreeper has male plumage on one half of its body and female plumage on the other half.
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Watch thousands of starlings perform an 'incredible ballet of life and death' in new murmuration footageOver 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.
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Weird Chinstrap penguins sleep over 10,000 times a day for just 4 seconds at a timeThe penguins accrue 11 hours of cumulative sleep a day from a bizarre adaptation that enables them to doze as they guard their nests.
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Stunning footage captures tiny bird's fight for survival in massive Saharan sandstormFirst 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.
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120 million-year-old birds tracks near South Pole are the oldest ever discovered in the Southern HemisphereFossilized bird tracks discovered in Australia show these ancient creatures lived in the southern polar regions on the supercontinent of Gondwana.
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1st-known 'highly pathogenic' bird flu cases in Antarctic could threaten penguinsThe British Antarctic Survey detected cases of highly pathogenic bird flu in seabirds on Bird Island, located in the Antarctic region in the South Atlantic.
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Upcoming solar maximum could scramble migrating birds' internal compass, new study showsBy 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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Moment falcon digs its talons into pelican's head to protect its nest captured in incredible photoThe winner of the Bird Photographer of the Year was Jack Zhi, who caught the moment a peregrine falcon took on a large brown pelican.
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Animal sex: How birds do itAnimals have sex in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways. Birds have sex via an internal chamber called a cloaca that is present on both male and female animals.
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