Helen Hays, Who Helped Bring Terns Back to Long Island Sound, Dies at 94
Beginning in 1969, she spent five months a year on Great Gull Island, leading teams of young volunteers devoted to preserving ...
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Over 100,000 ducks to be euthanized at New York farm after bird flu outbreak
Bird flu continues to impact poultry populations nationwide, contributing to rising egg prices and prompting increased surveillance and testing measures. A Long Island farm will reportedly ...
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Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...
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It's like 'dead birds flying': How bird flu is spreading in the wild
That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread ... it easily on ...
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Remarkable Fossil Discovery Hints at Antarctic Origins of All Modern Birds
It has a long pointed beak and a brain shape unlike any other Mesozoic birds ... iaai's aquatic lifestyle, with legs that ...
After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
Loon-like waterfowl from dinosaur-era Antarctica is oldest 'modern' bird
Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...