Alli Smith, of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, offers beginner tips for exploring the wide world of birds.
Tag: Birds
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For These Bird Flu Researchers, Work Is a Day at the Very ‘Icky’ Beach
The H5N1 virus poses “a great unknown threat” to birds and humans alike. Understanding and thwarting it begins with excrement collection.
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How Did Birds First Take Off?
It took 150 million years for feathered dinosaurs to master flight and become the birds we see overhead today.
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Sparrows Are the Main Suspects in a Bird-Nest Murder
A nest was assaulted. The main suspect: A nonnative sparrow.
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Three Years After a Fateful Day in Central Park, Birding Continues to Change My Life
Why — of all the spectacular creatures with which we share this planet — do birds captivate as no others can?