Bird
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Real Estate
Do Birds Dream?
What new research on the avian brain and REM sleep in birds might reveal about our own dream lives.
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World
With an Orange-Tufted Spiderhunter, Birder Breaks Record for Sightings
In February, Peter Kaestner beat out the competition to document his 10,000th bird species.
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World
These Birds Are National Symbols but Getting Harder to See
The American tropics are uniquely blessed with birds. Thirty-six percent of the world’s 11,000 bird species live in the region…
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World
This Bird Is Half Male, Half Female, and Completely Stunning
A green honeycreeper spotted on a farm in Colombia exhibits a rare biological phenomenon known as bilateral gynandromorphism.
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Business
Bird, an Electric Scooter Company, Files for Bankruptcy
The company, once a high-flying start-up whose services were hailed as the next big thing in personal transportation, lost much…
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Health
Bird Flu Is Still Causing Havoc. Here’s the Latest.
The virus, which recently reached the Antarctic region for the first time, is surging again in North America.
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Real Estate
Why Mister Grouse Is the Friendliest Bird in the Forest
When Bill Hartline bought 50 acres of forested land outside Muncy, Pa., he was looking for a bit of solitude…
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Real Estate
Polly Wants a Cracker, but She Wants to Make It Easier to Chew
Goffin’s cockatoos, long known as adept tool users, are the first parrots found to alter their food by dipping it…
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Real Estate
Why Warblers Flock to Wealthier Neighborhoods
In the unequal distribution of birds and other species, ecologists are tracing the impact of bigoted urban policies adopted decades…
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Real Estate
Freakishly Smart Falcons Run These Islands
The success of wild striated caracaras in a test suggests that the intellects of more bird species may be underestimated.