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Hoatzin: The strange 'stinkbird' born with clawed wings that appears to be an evolutionary 'orphan'
Why it's awesome: The hoatzin is often regarded as one of the world's strangest birds. Hatchlings are born with clawed wings ...
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This Tiny Blue-Eyed Bird Was Once Thought to Be Extinct
The blue-eyed ground dove is one of Brazil’s hidden treasures, but there are only around 50 to 249 of these birds left in the ...
Species of tropical bird among rarest sightings across Dorset during the 2020s
A number of rare birds have been spotted across Dorset in the 2020s including the Red-footed booby, Eleonora's Falcon and ...
What is this tropical bird doing in Kansas? It’s the first time it’s been spotted here
A tropical bird — never reported to have graced the Sunflower State — is now calling Kansas home. Mark Nolen, a Wichita ...
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Tropical parakeets ruffle feathers at Belfast park
Bedecked with emerald green feathers and a rose-red beak, the ring-neck parakeets have become ... "People still think of it as a tropical bird but it has adapted." Ms Blakely told BBC News NI she ...
The Unlikely Comeback Story of a Once-Extinct Tropical Bird
The Guam kingfisher (Todiramphus cinnamominus), last seen in the wild in 1988, is making a comeback. Thanks to years of ...
75 percent of North America’s bird species are in decline, study says
Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.