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An illustration featuring various birds found in New York City. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Lori Van Buren / Bruce Bennett / Jon G. Fuller / Sebastian Willnow / Universal Images Group)

Birding is punk

Lucy Levinson
Boston terrier wearing headphones listening to music. (Getty Images / retales botijero)

The animals that keep a beat

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Lili Taylor birdwatching. (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Courtesy Mike Fernandez)

Lili Taylor makes birding fun and easy

Kelly McClure
Golden-crowned Sparrow. (picaday / Getty Images)

"Drab" species are studied less: study

John R. Platt - The Revelator
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Every Little Thing (Courtesy of Kino Lorber)

"Every Little Thing" shows massive grace

Gary M. Kramer
Wild turkeys are seen near the Berkeley Marina in Berkeley, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2021. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)

Wild turkeys are threatened again

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Group of seagulls in a clear sunny sky (Getty Images/Ivan)

Gulls aren't "rats with wings"

Matthew Rozsa
Candiru (Vandellia cirrhosa), also known as cañero, toothpick fish, or vampire fish, is a species of parasitic freshwater catfish in the family Trichomycteridae native to the Amazon Basin. (Jorge Garcia/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Nature’s strangest real life vampires

Matthew Rozsa
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Herring Gull Larus argentatus with three chicks (Getty Images/aseppa)

Why gulls don't deserve the hate

Brianna Grant
Dolphin in aquarium (Getty Images/vdorse)

Gaze and the evolution of empathy

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Long-billed Vulture (Gyps indicus) at Bandhavgarh National park, Madhya Pradesh, India (Getty Images/ePhotocorp)

Vulture deaths linked to human deaths

Matthew Rozsa
Cat watching a small bird (Getty Images/zmijak)

Are house cats safe from bird flu?

Nicole Karlis
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The nondescript Palm Tanager (Thraupis palmarum) feeds on berries and excretes the indigestible seeds elsewhere. This is how the bird is spreading trees. (Mathias Pires)

Fruit-eating birds are vital to forests

Matthew Rozsa
This picture taken early on December 26, 2019 shows a seagull flying above a beach in Kuwait City during the partial solar eclipse event. (YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)

How will birds respond to the eclipse?

Kimberly Rosvall, Liz Aguilar - The Conversation
Japanese tit (Getty Images/rockptarmigan)

Japanese birds gesture "after you"

Matthew Rozsa
A group of seagulls are resting on top of the wooden wall under the hazy winter sky. (Getty Images/design-pulse.P)

Seagulls move in with us for our food

Matthew Rozsa
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Cackling geese (Branta hutchinsii) flying (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Millions of birds impacted by fireworks

Troy Farah
Common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) (Getty Images/Anup Shah)

Like us, these five animals have culture

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A pair of Pūteketeke (Great Crested Grebes) bonding on a lake in New Zealand (Getty Images/Kristian Bell)

John Oliver endorses puking birds

Matthew Rozsa
Gentoo Penguin and Skua on Cuverville Island in Antarctica (Getty Images/Mark Edward Harris)

Bird flu hits Antarctica

Matthew Rozsa
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Hawk flying through space (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Space weather disrupts bird migration

Matthew Rozsa
Monk Parakeet (Getty Images/iculizard)

Parrots have "voiceprints" like humans

Elizabeth Hlavinka
5 years-old Eastern Screech Owl (Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Lessons from rescuing a baby owl

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/George Clerk)

A memoir in praise of complex science

Mark Harris - Undark
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