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Scottish blue tits mostly survive on food from garden bird feeders
Garden bird feed is the single most common food source found in a sample of blue tit faeces collected across Scotland
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Some bird embryos know to hide from predators even inside their eggs
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Common swifts can fly more than 800 kilometres a day during migration
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There are 50 billion wild birds on Earth 鈥� but four species dominate
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Floating googly eyes on a stick scare seabirds away from fishing nets
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People living in the Atacama desert once traded exotic parrots
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Mysterious death of bald eagles in US explained by bromide poisoning
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Why do flamingos stand on one leg?
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Thousands of starlings fly together to make an enormous bird
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Playing dead really works to help insects avoid being eaten by birds
Insects avoid being eaten by playing dead, because birds are easily distracted by other nearby insects that are still moving
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Male lyrebirds imitate a flock of birds to scare females into mating
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Genetics leaves little doubt that humans wiped out passenger pigeons
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Sparrows are healthier living in groups with diverse personalities
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Chinstrap penguin population halved at key Antarctic breeding area
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