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Ancient geese stood 3 metres tall and weighed as much as a cow

A rare fossil skull provides strong evidence that the Dromornithidae, an extinct group of Australian flightless birds, were related to geese and ducks

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Chicks link shapes with 'bouba' and 'kiki' sounds just like humans

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An amazing great bustard gets ready for a new nature exhibition

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An amazing great bustard gets ready for a new nature exhibition
Bird specimen at NHM Tring

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Auks, Darwin's finches and a mummified falcon: Inside NHM bird archive

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Songs that birds 'sing' in their dreams translated into sound

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MRI image of the 250th California condor egg to hatch at the San Diego Zoo Safari.

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See inside an endangered California condor egg just before it hatches

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A female Japanese tit fluttering its wings

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Birds make an 'after you' gesture to prompt their mate to enter nest

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Blue tits shared a tree hollow with bird-eating bats – and survived

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Flightless terror birds stalked Antarctica after the dinosaurs' demise

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Storks refine their migration routes as they learn from experience

Tracking data shows that young white storks spend more time exploring new places, while older ones take a more direct route on their annual migrations

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Magnificent yellow-crested bird photographed for the first time

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A love bird

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Watch parrots use their beaks for a newly identified form of motion

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Owls may actually be able to turn their heads a full 360 degrees

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Sharp decline of African birds of prey puts them at risk of extinction

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