'Super Bowl for birders': People competing to see rare bird in Texas
On Monday, Dania Sanchez, who was Texas' top birder for 2024, had her turn to catch a glimpse of the rare avian visitor. "I ...
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Researchers Use A.I. to Find an Elusive and ‘Odd’ Australian Bird. It Hadn’t Been Recorded in the Area Since 1989
Once abundant throughout southeastern Australia, the critically endangered plains-wanderer is now on the brink of extinction ...
Mississippi Turkey Hunter Tags Rare, Snow-White Gobbler on Opening Day
Glace Rone shot a rare, snow-white turkey, a leucistic wild bird, on the opening day of Mississippi’s spring turkey season.
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Biologist stunned by unusual materials found packed inside bird nest: 'The oldest layer is as old as me'
"All my life, a bird was nesting here." Biologist stunned by unusual materials found packed inside bird nest: 'The oldest ...
Unique dove species is the dodo of the Caribbean and in similar danger of dying out
Ancient DNA shows an endangered dove species endemic to Cuba is more genetically distinct than the dodo was before it died out.
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Art Lander’s Outdoors: American woodcock, a unique migratory bird with distinctive appearance, behavior
The American Woodcock (Scolopax minor), a.k.a. Timberdoodle, is a migratory game bird in the shorebird family Scolopacidae.
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Killer whales caught on video in rarely seen bird hunt off Seattle: "Once-in-a-lifetime experience"
A pod of orcas swam close to shore and amazed onlookers in Seattle by treating the whale watchers to the rare sight of the apex predators hunting a bird. And the unusual spectacle was all caught ...