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News Articles: birds

Professor Michelle Moyer and Georgia College and State University students use their binoculars to look at an orchard oriole while conducting field research at Andalusia Farm on Friday, April 17, 2026, in Milledgeville, Ga. Katie Tucker/The Telegraph

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A tiny, ‘gorgeous’ bird is vanishing from Georgia wetlands. GCSU is tracking them

Georgia College & State University students are studying a species the Department of Natural Resources has listed as a “greatest conservation need,” as part of a state-funded effort to understand its decline.

April 21, 2026
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By:
  • Margaret Walker and
  • The Telegraph
Ducks swim in the Chattahoochie River.

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  • Animals

Ducks don't travel as far when their needs are met. That could affect how we manage bird flu

A new study from the University of Georgia looks at how birds move in diverse habitats, and what that could mean for the spread of avian influenza.

April 13, 2026
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By:
  • Chase McGee
Hummingbirds consume an average of two to three times their weight in nectar each day. (Steve Byland/Dreamstime/TNS)

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  • Animals

Hummingbirds are almost back in GA for 2026. Here’s when to put out your feeders

Little fluttering, ruby-throated creatures are coming to Georgia this month. Hummingbirds can travel more than 3,000 miles during migration and in March, folks in Georgia get to see their tiny wings fly around once more. But when should you put our feeders? And how else can you attract hummingbirds? Here’s what to know:

March 09, 2026
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By:
  • Chelsea Madden and
  • The Telegraph
Two small brown birds

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  • Animals

Meet the banded birds of Gwinnett County

At the Georgia Gwinnett College Bird Lab, volunteers track and collect data from several traveling species.

September 30, 2025
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Miranda Zamarelli and Dick Holmes of Dartmouth College review one of the early paper maps used to chart songbird territories in a patch of woods in central New Hampshire.

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  • Science

By listening to these birds for decades, scientists track signs of a changing forest

Scientists tracking the birds in an experimental forest in New Hampshire have also tracked changes in the forest ecosystem over decades.

September 10, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
A new study finds that light pollution makes birds' days last longer.

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  • Science

Artificial light has essentially lengthened birds' day

Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later.

August 23, 2025
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Great Tits are a songbird common in Europe and parts of Asia. New research finds that they sometimes get divorced.

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  • Science

Researchers find that songbirds sometimes get 'divorced'

A new study from Oxford University finds that a common European songbird sometimes divorces its partner between breeding seasons.

July 31, 2025
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
The brown pelican is among the species protected by Georgia's bird island rule, which prohibits public access to certain coastal islands and sandbars.

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  • Environment

Georgia DNR proposes first-ever change to 'bird island rule' protecting critical nesting sites

One dredge spoil island in Brunswick Harbor now hosts about 8,000 nesting pairs of seabirds, but lacks the legal protections afforded by the original rule.

July 10, 2025
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
An oriental magpie-robin perches on a tree branch in Bangkok in 2022. The bird was among the species that researchers studied in a rainforest in India.

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  • Science

A new study knocks down a popular hypothesis about why birds sing at dawn

The reason why birds make such a racket at dawn is still unclear. But researchers are now pouring cold water on one popular idea about why.

June 20, 2025
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By:
  • James Doubek

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  • World

Greetings from the Galápagos Islands, where the blue-footed booby shows its colors

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world.

May 28, 2025
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
Hummingbirds gather around a hummingbird feeder filled with sugar water, in a backyard in the San Fernando Valley section of the city of Los Angeles, July 17, 2014.

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  • Science

Backyard feeders changed the shape of hummingbird beaks, scientists say

A new study details the evolutionary change of Anna's Hummingbirds, finding their beaks have grown longer and more tapered to get the most from common feeders.

May 24, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
A barred owl sits in a tree in Forsyth Park in 2025. Credit: Courtesy of Andy Young

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  • Animals

Nesting owls delay tree removal

A dying red oak was about to be felled when a bird’s parental instincts kicked in.

March 17, 2025
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By:
  • Mary Landers and
  • The Current
a red cardinal

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  • Environment

Taking on spring cleaning? Consider adding bird feeders to the list, say wildlife scientists

When songbird species congregate at bird feeders, they're at higher risk of disease transmission. Humans can help by keeping feeders clean. 

March 13, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Wisdom (center right), a Laysan albatross first banded in 1956, stands with her new partner as they admire their recently laid egg at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in late November.

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  • Animals

She's 74 — and expecting: Wisdom the albatross astounds once again

It started in the Eisenhower era: Every year, Wisdom, a Layan albatross, has returned to her nesting grounds on the Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

December 06, 2024
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
<em>Navaornis</em> in hand.

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  • Science

Small fossil has big implications for bird brain evolution

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over millions of years. A new fossil sheds light on that mystery.

November 13, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
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