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News Articles: birds

A flock of wood storks mingles with egrets as they stand in a retention pond along a road in Atlantic Beach, Fla., on Aug. 12, 2015.

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  • Animals

After a big recovery, the wood stork may soon fly off the endangered species list

The ungainly yet graceful wood stork, which was on the brink of extinction in 1984, has rebounded dramatically in Florida and other Southern states, officials say.

February 14, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Taylor Blake is helping Emmanuel with physical therapy in a homemade sling.

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  • Animals

Emmanuel the emu does not have the avian flu, but is likely stressed out, owner says

A wave of avian flu struck Knuckle Bump Farms, which Emmanuel the emu calls home. Several birds had to be euthanized as a result, which could be causing stress for the TikTok star.

October 26, 2022
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  • Ayana Archie
American oystercatchers in flight (Tim Keyes_Georgia DNR)

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  • News

Millions of birds migrate south in the fall. Many spend time along Georgia's coast

Some 300 species of birds have been spotted along Georgia’s Colonial Coast Birding Trail, which spans 122 miles and has 17 sites, making it great for bird watching.

October 11, 2022
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  • Devon Zwald
Georgia’s first statewide survey of bald eagle nests in five years showed the national bird nesting in record numbers, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

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  • Animals

Bald eagles are nesting in record numbers in Georgia

According to Georgia’s first statewide survey of bald eagle nests in five years, America's national bird is nesting in the Peach State in record numbers.

August 02, 2022
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  • Sarah Rose
Sam Van Wassenbergh and his team filmed this black woodpecker at Alpenzoo Innbruck, Austria, for their study.

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  • Science

A woodpecker's brain takes a big hit with every peck: study

A new study refutes the popular idea that a woodpecker's brain is cushioned from the violent impacts of pecking. It offers a different reason the birds avoid brain damage.

July 14, 2022
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  • Jon Hamilton
Waterfowl and the raptors that dine on them, like this bald eagle and snow goose, have both been killed by the new bird flu virus.

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  • Science

A worrisome new bird flu is spreading in American birds and may be here to stay

Scientists are tracking a deadly bird flu outbreak that has infected wild birds in more than 30 states. Purging the nation's poultry supply may not be enough to keep the virus from sticking around.

April 09, 2022
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Corina Newsome

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  • News

Black birder wants to change perceptions of who belongs in nature

When a white woman called police on a Black man bird-watching in Central Park in 2020, their recorded encounter led Corina Newsome to act.

One of the co-organizers of Black Birders Week, she is countering the perception that naturalist means white.

March 18, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
A Steller's sea eagle is pictured in 2014 in Paris during a presentation of several endangered raptor species. A Steller's sea eagle, native to Asia, was spotted in Massachusetts this week.

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  • Animals

A lost eagle from Asia has been traveling around North America for more than a year

The Steller's sea eagle — native to China, Japan, the Koreas and eastern Russia — was spotted along the Taunton River in Massachusetts on Monday. It was first seen in Alaska in the summer of 2020.

December 21, 2021
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  • Deepa Shivaram
A roadrunner rests at Avian Haven, a bird rehab facility on Sunday in Freedom, Maine. The bird hitched a ride in the storage area of a moving van from Las Vegas.

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  • Animals

A stowaway roadrunner hitched a ride in a moving van from Las Vegas to Maine

A wayward roadrunner is on the mend at a bird rehabilitation facility in Maine after traveling across the country for four days in a moving van.

November 16, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
A bald eagle perches on a tree at Sunset Park in Rock Island, Ill., in March. A new study says that many species of birds increasingly moved into urban areas as human activity waned during the pandemic.

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  • Science

Birds Thrived Where Humans Feared To Tread During The Pandemic, Scientists Say

A new study shows that as people mostly remained indoors during lockdowns last year, many bird species found less noisy and polluted cities more inviting.

September 23, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
Veterinarian Belinda Burwell began receiving reports of sick songbirds in Virginia last month. This male blue jay was completely blind and was hopping in circles because of dizziness. He had to be euthanized.

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  • Animals

A Mystery Illness Is Killing Mid-Atlantic Songbirds

Wildlife officials are asking people not to feed birds or provide bird baths amid dozens of reports of mysterious songbird deaths.

July 02, 2021
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  • Jeff Brady
<strong>Left:</strong> Nicole Jackson is co-organizer of Black Birders Week, and founder of Black in National Parks Week. <strong>Right:</strong> Tykee James is founder of Freedom Birders and the government affairs coordinator at the National Audubon Society.

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  • National

Monuments And Teams Have Changed Names As America Reckons With Racism. Birds Are Next

As America tries to come to terms with its complicated racial past, efforts are underway to remove all eponymous bird names and to "decolonize the birding experience" to include more Black people.

June 05, 2021
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  • Jeff St. Clair
U.S. bald eagle populations have more than quadrupled in the lower 48 states since 2009, according to a new survey from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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  • Animals

Once Imperiled, America's Bald Eagle Populations Are Soaring

The number of bald eagles in the lower 48 states has quadrupled since 2009, according to a new survey. The findings are a bright spot in an otherwise troubling picture for American birds.

March 25, 2021
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  • Nathan Rott
Workers in protective gear wash off a lightly-oiled pelican

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  • Environment

Pelican Oiled By Golden Ray Salvage Rescued, Rehabbed, Released

Crews monitoring the environmental impacts of the effort to cut up and remove the capsized ship found the lightly oiled pelican and turned it over to bird rehabilitation experts.

February 18, 2021
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  • Emily Jones
A male vermillion flycatcher perches atop an open branch on one of the many charred mesquites on our land, La Isla.

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  • Photography

Learning To Love Bird Photography, Thanks To A 'Competitive Collaboration'

Over just 10 days in November, Gemina Garland-Lewis photographed 42 bird species with her partner on their land in Mexico. It wasn't until recently, she writes, that birds made her "tick."

January 24, 2021
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  • Gemina Garland-Lewis
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