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These birds are keeping a record of humanity—one wrapper at a time
An advertisement for the 1994 World Cup, fast food wrappers, COVID-19 masks—what birds used to build their nests reflects a ...
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The slender-billed curlew is extinct
A brown and beige wading bird with a speckly belly ... Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in the Netherlands and Natural History Museum determined that the slender-billed curlew is extinct, the ...
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Like clockwork, hundreds of birds descend on Port Royal. Here’s why they love the place
The birds return each spring to nest. Karl Puckett [email protected] A diverse mix of long-legged wading birds are once again as thick as no-see-ums at a popular downtown Port Royal ...
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Bird species declared extinct after not being spotted for 27 years
Scientists from RSPB, BirdLife International, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in the Netherlands ... occasional unconfirmed reports, the wading birds were last definitively seen in 1995, and ...