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Imagine you're learning to fly a plane when the unthinkable happens: a bird slams into the window while flying at night.

Plucky, an African gray parrot, accompanied its owner on a Frontier Airlines flight to Puerto Rico in January. But a gate ...

Today we meet the northern jacana, a little water bird with huge feet and an interesting sex life. The northern jacana (Jacana spinosa) is known as the cirujano, mulita, or gallito de agua in Spanish.

Hawaiian Electric is conducting studies of bird flight paths on Maui to reduce the impact of strikes on company-owned utilities lines. Newell’s shearwater is among the threatened species under ...

an Andean Condor weighs 15 kg, the heaviest for a soaring bird and only flaps its wings 1% of the time in flight.

The only problem, the actual bird wasn't allowed on her frontier flight. However, it was allowed on the frontier flight out of JFK. They told her at the gate in Puerto Rico, No, no, no ...

It could have ended in catastrophe. Instead, two young flight students are being praised for their calm reaction when a bird flew through their cockpit window while they were high in the sky.

In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle. A dangerous ...

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While that fashion trend thankfully came to an end, kagus have continued to face threats, with predation by dogs and other introduced animals, as well as habitat loss, all causing numbers to decline.