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East Africa's Lake Nakuru almost doubled in size in 13 years — and that's bad news for flamingos
Africa's soda lakes are rising and it's decimating the cyanobacteria flamingos have evolved to eat, putting the species at risk of drastic declines if current trends continue.
World's oldest wild bird is 'actively courting' after losing long-term mate
Biologists on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean have spotted a septuagenarian female Laysan albatross named Wisdom flirting with potential mates months after the end of the nesting season.
Eleonora's falcon: The raptor that imprisons birds live by stripping their feathers and stuffing them in rocks
One population of Eleonora's falcon is reported to keep little birds alive inside rocky prisons — a behavior not seen in any other raptor species.
Watch woodpecker evict starling that stole its nest by yanking it out with its beak
A bird photographer in Michigan has captured dramatic footage of the moment a red-headed woodpecker found a starling in its tree trunk nest and evicted it by yanking it out.
Aldabra rail: The bird that came back from the dead by evolving twice
The flightless Aldabra rail went extinct 136,000 years ago when its atoll home sank beneath the waves. Then it evolved again.
4 never-before-seen emperor penguin colonies discovered in Antarctica, thanks to poop smears spotted from space
A scientist scoured satellites for signs of unreported Emperor penguin colonies and made a shocking discovery.
Loggerhead shrike: The brutal 'butcherbird' that impales its prey on barbed wire
Loggerhead shrikes can kill prey bigger than themselves by stabbing and shaking them, before impaling them on sticks to eat later.
See 'incredible' photos of bird that is both male and female
This green honeycreeper has male plumage on one half of its body and female plumage on the other half.
Watch thousands of starlings perform an 'incredible ballet of life and death' in new murmuration footage
Over the past six years, Danish photographer Søren Solkær has followed huge flocks of starlings, known as murmurations, across Europe to film and photograph their breathtaking aerial acrobatics.
