Birds
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Country Diary: Kingston upon Thames, Surrey: Straightened up again, head cocked at 45 degrees, the heron looks more purposeful, eyeing one of the salmon that lurk here
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Letters: We became aware as evening fell of a noise all round the house. Every bush and tree was alive with birds
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Originally published in the Guardian on 5 December 1964: I was able to show him packs of pochard and widgeon and other quite common ducks as well as the less common smew and goosanders
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Country Diary Wrest Park, Bedfordshire: Out of the fog came a jackdaw which landed on its stone head
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Anonymous plane owner transports rust-coloured bird after rufous hummingbird found off-course in wintry Minnesota
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Jeremy Plester on an Australian bird that lives by the coast – but somehow knows when it rains 1,000 miles away in the desert
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GrrlScientist: Natural history museums are many things, but they are not peopled exclusively with dry, dusty old white men, rooting around in dry, dusty old drawers, examining dry, dusty old dead things.
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Light punishment of Norfolk buzzard poisoner will not dissuade offenders, says head of EU environmental crimes unit
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A video made by attaching a GoPro camera to an eagle shows recognisable London sights from a bird's eye view
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Originally published in the Guardian on 20 November 1964: I was lucky today in seeing two specimens of the Syrian turtle dove on the Petersfield-Winchester road
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Stephen Moss has an eye-level view of an Aussie giant with a gaze as menacing as a velociraptor’s
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GrrlScientist: Today’s caturday video introduces the online game, Bird Song Hero. It uses audio and visual cues to help people learn birdsongs so they can identify wild birds by voice alone.
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Country Diary: Cairngorms, the Highlands The animals were re-introduced as long ago as 1952, having been brought in from Lapland
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The great knots, sharp-tailed sandpipers and tiny red-necked stints that wade the shore have made it all the way from Siberia, but habitat destruction now threatens to disrupt their migratory routes
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Country Diary Sandy, Bedfordshire: A bird fell out of the sky, its tumbling body cartwheeling
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The little owls hatched in the summer and since then have been learning the lay of the land.
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Zoology professor Tim Birkhead reaches crowdfunded target to maintain his long-term study of guillemots on Skomer
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GrrlScientist: Indonesia is home to a tiny breed of chickens that are kept and bred purely for ornamental reasons. So of course, that means their human caregivers must hold a beauty pageant where these diminutive birds can strut their stuff.
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Esther Addley hears from an RSPB expert about the potential impact of the sharp decline of common species in Europe
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Photographer Owen Humphreys captures thousands of starlings starting their murmuration near Gretna Green
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RSPB described killing of 11 birds of prey by Allen Lambert at Stody estate in Norfolk as worst case ever detected in England
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Karl Mathiesen: Ban Ki-moon has called on nations to do more to protect the environment from the devastation of war, but even in times of peace our militaries have a huge impact on natural resources
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An unforgettable, overwhelming and pungent day spent on Michaelmas Cay during a tour of wildlife-rich Queensland
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Meet penguin-bot. Remote-controlled rovers disguised as penguins could reduce stress to wild animals during behavioural research
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Some rarer birds have grown in number over last 30 years due to conservation efforts while some well known species have fallen
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GrrlScientist: This interesting video shares some of the calls made by a few owl species, including the calls made by one of the world’s most widespread bird species, the barn owl.
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Country Diary: South Uist For many, these island landfalls, far from their intended destination, will prove to be their last
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RSPB calls on shooting industry to help stamp out problem as a report shows birds, including golden eagles, hen harriers and red kites were illegally killed last year
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Country diary: Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire A cacophony of voices heard beneath the old oak tree
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Prosecutors accuse Utah man Dell Schanze of violating federal law in video that appeared to show him kick a barn owl mid-flight
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Country Diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley Finches flash yellow as they dart away from burdocks and bedraggled thistles
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GrrlScientist: This absorbing book is an engaging and wistful, yet measured, chronicle about the tragic loss of one very special, iconic, species, the passenger pigeon.
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Tim Birkhead recalls his early research on the guillemots of Skomer and asks for your help to keep the project going
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GrrlScientist New books Party: Books that arrived recently