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Sneaky birds caught on video while yanking hair from live animals
By Cameron Duke published
YouTube videos show that birds pull animal hair more often than previously thought.
'Trash parrots' in Australia have figured out how to open garbage cans (Video)
By Laura Geggel published
Wild cockatoos have figured out how to open garbage can lids, and the practice is spreading due to social learning.
Mass bird die-off in eastern US baffles scientists
By Cameron Duke published
A mysterious illness is spreading throughout bird populations in the eastern U.S.
This french-fry-stealing seagull is the star of a new Google ad
By Mindy Weisberger published
When a photographer snapped the moment a herring gull caught a french fry midair, the image quickly went viral. Now, the photo is appearing on Google billboards in Ireland and the U.K.
Tasmanian devils wipe out colony of little penguins in major conservation backfire
By Harry Baker published
Tasmanian devils introduced to Maria Island for their own conservation have created an ecological disaster in their new home by wiping out an entire population of little penguins.
World's first bionic vulture created
By Cameron Duke published
Lifesaving surgery gives a rare bird a leg up.
Crows understand the 'concept of zero' (despite their bird brains)
By Nicoletta Lanese published
Researchers determined this with behavioral tests and recordings of the birds' brain activity.
Condors won't stop visiting (and trashing) this California woman's house. Here's why.
By Mindy Weisberger published
More than a dozen condors have been paying daily visits to a home in Tehachapi, California (and destroying nearly everything in sight).
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