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Can Artificial Insemination Save Endangered Species?

These Magellanic penguin chicks, hatched in May 2014, are the second group of penguins bred using artificial insemination at SeaWorld. The penguin on the right was the first penguin to be conceived...

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Scientists Solve Mystery of How Hummingbirds Taste Sweetness

A ruby-throated hummingbird feeds on mimosa flowers. Photograph by George Grall, National Geographic Creative Hummingbirds feel the sweet lure of nectar, but they taste it in the most unexpected of...

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4 Videos: Threatened Birds Face Polar Bears, Poop-Sniffing Reporters

As National Geographic this week presents a special series on the plight of threatened bird species around the world, Winged Warnings, we highlight some of our most recent and best videos about species...

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Washington, D.C.’s Snowy Owl Found Dead in Minnesota

Watch a video detailing how the famous snowy owl got new feathers earlier this year.   A snowy owl injured during its big-city adventure to Washington, D.C., this past winter has died. It survived...

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A Photographic Diary of #Okavango14

Wilderness. By definition it is an uncultivated, inhospitable region, uninhabited by man. A place without artificiality. A place free of the constructs of our societies. It is where the prophets of...

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An Awareness of Vultures in Our Poisonous World

By Steve Zack An appreciation of vultures is in the eye of the beholder. William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition certainly appreciated them; Charles Darwin certainly did not. Clark carefully...

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New Zealand’s Spokesbird Sirocco the Kākāpō

This week I met Sirocco the kākāpō, spokesbird for New Zealand conservation. The kākāpō are an emblematic species for New Zealand conservation, and typifying island conservation. The species displays...

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Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week #72

Firethroats, kingfishers, openbills, nightjars, stilts, leafbirds, roadrunners, mangos, laughthrushes, and rubythroats are featured in this 72nd edition of the “Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the...

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A Brighter Future for the Hornbills of India

Magnus Lidén is a plant systematist who has taught in India as guest faculty at Rajiv Gandhi University. During a trip to a local market, he was told an interesting tale about hornbill hats and decided...

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Mystery Solved? How Birds Weather Turbulence

When a bird hits turbulence while flying, it can’t turn on the “fasten seatbelt” sign. Instead, new research shows that it tucks its wings to stabilize its flight. Scientists were studying the flight...

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Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week #73

With over 700,000 followers on the Wild Bird Trust Facebook page, the Wild Bird Revolution is accelerating towards our goal of 1 million Wild Bird Enthusiasts by the end of the year… We need your help...

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Vote For Cape Parrot As SA’s Favourite Bird!

Click here to Vote for CAPE PARROT as South Africa’s favourite bird! The green-and gold Cape Parrot is our national parrot and are only found here, yet most South Africans do not even know they...

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Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week #74

All the very best this holiday season from the Wild Bird Trust team! Just six weeks ago, we had just over 700,000 followers on the Wild Bird Trust Facebook page. Today we have 841,795 likes on the...

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Our Work Saving Africa’s Most Endangered Parrot

Please watch this 7-minute documentary on the Cape Parrot Project produced for global distribution by German television. How can we imagine a world without magnificent creatures like South Africa’s...

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Vote Now For Most Beautiful Parrot In Africa!

Absolutely stunning! Our amazing Cape parrots take my breath away every time! Proud, vibrant, wild parrots! Please vote for the Cape parrot as South Africa’s favourite bird and help us raise the...

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Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week #75

Wow! We are almost there! Nearly 860,000 Wild Bird Enthusiasts on our Facebook page and counting… This is the 75th edition of the “Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week” and represents one of the...

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Revealing a “Modern-Day Velociraptor”

Artist and science illustrator Jane Kim puts the final touches on the southern cassowary in her new mural at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. (Photo by Danza Chisholm-Sims/Ink Dwell) To celebrate its...

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Huge, Rare Vultures Make Impressive Flying Journeys

Traveling 125 miles under your own power might take a human a week a more to complete. For an endangered Ruppell’s vulture with an epic wingspan of roughly 8 feet, it’s a mere day trip. Ruppell’s...

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A Feathery Hedgehog

The great spotted kiwi is the largest of five kiwi species. It is not spotted. (Photo by Danza Chisholm-Sims/Ink Dwell)   The Bird To those who would contend evolution a humorless process, see Exhibit...

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Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week #76

This is the 76th edition of the “Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week” and represents one of the best wild bird photograph collections we have ever seen. This is a testament to how far this...

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