Overseas News
The hunter's guide to Mediterranean migrants.
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Peking ducks not for eating.
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Where bombs were once born, birds now flock.
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Egrets ruffle feathers.
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King penguin receives Norwegian knighthood.
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Beijing's Bird's Nest really has birds.
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Ethical coffee helps save Peruvian rainforest.
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Rare birds nesting in underwear.
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Couple attacked by nesting sea birds.
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Birds released in secret location.
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Lake Michigan shoreline tract may be protected for migrating birds.
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Hungry Russian birds migrate to Scots islands looking for food.
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Evidence that pesticides are seriously messing up our honey bees.
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Hawaii's endangered birds starved for cash.
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Rabies tragedy follows loss of India's vultures.
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Fear for birds won't stop giant docks development.
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Protected birds take over historic boat.
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Brazil launches international fund to preserve Amazon.
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Darkwoods - Largest private conservation acquisition in Canada.
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It's pelican versus trout in predator conflict.
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Landowners demand the right to kill birds of prey as numbers grow.
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Vietnam illegal wildlife trade eats away at biodiversity.
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Almost half of monkeys and apes under threat.
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Penguins stray into hot water.
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Korean delegation highlights proposed canal impacts.
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Are eco-towns the face of the future?
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Condemnation for buzzard killers.
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Nepal's 'restaurant' for vultures.
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Southern African wetland region to become world’s largest protected freshwater site.
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Big birds breeding out of control in Germany.
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Cracking the mysteries of bird migration.
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3,936 red-whiskered bulbuls compete for trophies at the Asean Java Songbird Contest.
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India's riches unprotected.
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Democrats: White House must publish 'chilling' climate change document.
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Attacks on birds of prey 'up 40%'.
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The historic return of the Red Kite to the north of Ireland.
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First cattle egrets breed in UK.
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Baby penguins found dead by the hundreds.
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The guillemot, a seabird that depends on ice, is losing its habitat and falling prey to polar bears desperate for food. Video
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Pesticides blamed for a dramatic drop in the numbers of the nation’s birds.
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Smugglers caught at airports with birds.
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Ninety billion barrels of oil revealed in fragile Arctic.
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Mangroves key to saving lives.
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Nigeria: Queller birds invade Jigawa farmlands.
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Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials made a disturbing discovery in two lakes, finding hundreds of birds dead or dying.
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The BirdLife Games are coming!
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Guardian's week in wildlife:
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The poor breeding of Scotland's seabirds is giving cause for "serious concern".
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Fire brigade defends bird rescue.
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Al Gore: A generational challenge to repower America.
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Woodland birds on route to extinction as numbers dive.
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On the lookout for the thunderbird.
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South Africa's flamingos under threat.
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Bird watchers flock to remote Alaska island to see rare species.
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Cliff rescue raven flying again.
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Birds' breeding habits all at sea.
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Rare birds nest in school grounds.
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Hunters insist Birds Directive allows trapping.
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Hen harrier areas given special status to help safeguard birds.
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African 'wall of trees' gets underway.
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Climate more urgent than economy, say voters.
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Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis.
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RSPCA investigate falconry whose birds featured in Harry Potter film.
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Hopes high for future of choughs.
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The organisers of a Jewish youth camp near Hartenbos in the Southern Cape have apologised for causing the deaths of about 3 000 endangered birds at the campsite.
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Conservation groups plan legal action to prevent the extinction of the cape sable seaside sparrow.
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Gaultier's birds of paradise cap vibrant couture season in Paris.
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Yemen names national bird.
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Falcon chicks 'stolen for trade'.
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A rare red kite has died after being shot out of the sky over a Berwickshire grouse moor.
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Germany and France ban pesticides linked to bee deaths; geneticist urges U.S. Ban.
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Earth near tipping point, climatologist, James Hansen, warns.
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The most dangerous nature reserve in the world: wildlife in the demilitarised zone.
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Myanmar cyclone threatens water birds in delta region.
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East Africa: region's birds in danger.
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Abandoned baby birds taught how to sing with dawn chorus recordings.
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Nesting swallows delay demolition.
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Biologists call for balloon ban.
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Birds return after 200 year gap.
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Falcon Cam.
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China consuming twice what its ecosystems can supply.
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US second to China in illegal wildlife trade.
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As white as a . . . raven? Rare birds spotted on Vancouver Island.
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'Twit twoo'
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Decline at biggest UK puffin site.
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Falcon chicks stolen from castle.
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Exxon again cuts funds for climate change skeptics.
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More than one million migratory birds were illegally trapped and killed over the past year to feed an illicit Cypriot taste for such delicacies.
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The European Commission is sending Bulgaria a first written warning for failing to designate Special Protection Areas according to the provisions of the Wild Birds Directive.
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The tiny Scottish isle of Canna has successfully eradicated the island's rat population after a three-year campaign to protect the island's seabirds from the rodents.
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Japan resets the clock to let rare stork deliver babies of its own.
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Last flight of the honeybee?
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Rare birds set to make comeback.
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Great tit finds home in ashtray.
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Reward to catch falcon attackers.
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‘Unclean’ bird is nation’s favourite.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that protection for the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl as an endangered species may be again warranted.
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Shot osprey hint at larger problem for birds.
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Germany bans chemicals linked to honeybee devastation.
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Business gets Condor experts' silence in land deal.
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World's wildlife and environment already hit by climate change.
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Giant carnivorous mice threaten world's greatest seabird colony.
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Fire caused by RAF may have killed rare birds and eggs.
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McCain outlines environment proposal.
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Snowy owl breeding hopes fading.
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Extinct bird's egg goes on show.
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Biodiversity loss costs six percent of world income.
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The Ashy Storm-petrel, an imperiled California seabird.
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An epidemic of extinctions: Decimation of life on earth.
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The flamingos vs the factory.
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Environmental groups hail deal for Californian nature reserve.
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Hungry ravens making live kills.
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Gull eggs stolen for restaurants.
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Fifteen members of the Rockefeller family publicly called on ExxonMobil Corporation, the company which emerged from family patriarch John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil empire, to start looking beyond short-term oil profits in planning for a carbon-constrained future.
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Rare red ibis breed in wild in China.
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Scottish birds of prey deliberately poisoned.
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Interference and Loathing in Washington, D.C.
Over 800 EPA scientists report political interference in their work.
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New species discovered in Brazil.
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Asian vultures disappearing faster than dodo.
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Survival fight for eagle and hen harrier.
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A custom-crafted wetsuit may have helped Pierre the African penguin recover from a bout of a baldness.
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Nesting bird finds safest haven.
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Endangered birds come first: Scottish ministers say no to huge wind farm on Lewis peatland.
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National parks in North Yorkshire have one of the worst records for birds of prey being killed illegally.
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World Migratory Bird Day 10-11 May, 2008.
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Conservationists in Cambodia think they may be turning the corner in their fight to save one of the world's rarest birds.
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A Tribute to Aldo Leopold.
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Plant a billion trees: Earth Day, April 22.
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Even as South Korea prepares to host the next Ramsar "Wise Use of Wetlands" Convention conference (in October-November 2008), Korean bird
news tragically remains dominated by the impacts of the Saemangeum reclamation on shorebirds.
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World must reform agriculture now or face dire crisis: report.
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Hunters held as birds flock in.
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Fowl play by Malta.
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Cold snap spells tragedy for Europe-bound swallows.
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Giant beak puts woodpecker top of the bill.
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Hunger. Strikes. Riots. The food crisis bites.
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Survival of the dumbest.
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Surprise return for Lakes ospreys.
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Comorant massacre on Lake Constance.
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Robot hawk scares birds from airport.
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The future of agriculture.
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Corps of Engineers building sandbars for migratory birds.
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April 22, 2008, Earth Day.
A radio station that only broadcasts birdsong from an English country garden every day from 6am to midnight has become a hit with half a million listeners.
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The extremely rare yellow-billed loon a step closer to much-needed protection from threats such as oil development in Alaska and the loss of its tundra habitat in the face of global warming.
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Agriculture must revert to more natural, local production — UN–backed report.
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A foul-mouthed parrot, who once told a vicar to f**k off, has been teaching other birds how to swear.
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Gore's green army.
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Zoology students and staff from Dundee University are to help in a project which has seen a rare bird reintroduced into the rainforest of Trinidad.
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Jailed: The professional egg thief who kept 'Aladdin's cave' of 7,000 samples from wild birds.
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Rare water birds recovering in Cambodia.
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More than 15,000 birds died on Great Salt Lake last fall. Most of the birds were eared grebes.
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Bermuda Petrel returns to Nonsuch Island (Bermuda) after 400 years.
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Fighting to save the albatross from extinction, BirdLife International and the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) are doubling the number of countries — from three to six — in which they work.
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The number of finches seen in the UK's gardens this winter is at the highest level for five years, but overall garden bird numbers are down.
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The chaffinch is the most popular bird in Cornish gardens, according to the latest RSPB survey.
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Why are magpies so often hated?
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Land deal could open Alaska wildlife refuge to oil.
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Sharp decline in sightings of garden birds.
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Starling tops garden birds poll.
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Brown hares boxing may become a rarity in Britain.
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Europe’s rarest finch finds favour.
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Wildlife police raid Scottish grouse moor.
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Birdsong hits flat note.
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Massive threat to Korea’s wetlands and waterbirds:
The Grand Canal proposal.
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Birds who are a ferry’s most punctual passengers.
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Wandering Albatrosses follow their nose.
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RSPCA has uncovered a trap in Darlington it thinks was used to catch birds for sale on the black market.
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Feisty US kiwi born.
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Philippines:‘lure tourists with birds’.
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Golden eagle returns to the skies.
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Encyclopedia of Life goes live.
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Warming climate may cause arctic tundra to burn.
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Birds find nesting place in Valenzuela City.
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‘Fireflies’ helping to protect birds from power lines.
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China launches crackdown on Web sites that openly trade in animal products made from threatened species.
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BirdLife Cyprus cries foul over weak penalty for falcon slaughterers.
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Paraguay’s first Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network site.
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Retain spring hunting... or else, FKNK warns.
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Japan and US working together to give endangered seabirds a new home.
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Climate science maverick James Lovelock believes catastrophe is inevitable.
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Young sea eagles are ‘doing well’.
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Black birds descend on Texas.
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Red Knot birds may be endangered species.
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Conservationists mobilise to halt mass slaughter of birds in Malta.
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Hollywood’s eco trip.
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‘Paradise’ helps white swans survive the winter.
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Invasive rats on ocean islands are threatening the survival of many of the world’s seabirds.
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A flourishing wetland on Kenya’s northern coast is under serious threat from plans to grow vast amounts of sugarcane, partly for biofuel production.
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More people are putting their money into ethical funds. But many might be shocked to learn how it’s being invested.
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Starlings blacken motorway skies.
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