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www.oann.com | 3/2/2018 | Staff
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Rovio Entertainment, the maker of the Angry Birds mobile games franchise, said it expected sales to grow this year, buoyed by new game launches and a movie release, after its...
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Conservative Tribune | 2/13/2019 | Malachi Bailey
If it’s a day that ends in “y,” Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has to be making the news for all the wrong reasons. In one of her most recent turns in the headlines, the Democrat from...
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Breitbart | 2/10/2019 | Staff
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is weighing in on the proposed wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, claiming it would be “death-inducing” for a number of species.
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Popular Science | 2/8/2019 | Staff
Thousands of seabirds have been washing onto the Dutch shoreline for about a month now. At least, we think it’s been a month. It’s unclear. Perhaps the most concerning detail is that no one really...
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Screen | 2/7/2019 | Staff
Paris-based Indie Sales has scooped up world sales on Canadian director Louise Archambault’s upcoming feature And the Birds Rained Down. Adapted from Jocelyne Saucier’s prize-winning 2011 novel, the...
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Mail Online | 2/6/2019 | Afp
Dutch scientists have been left baffled after 20,000 dead or dying seabirds washed up on North Sea beaches in a phenomenon not seen for decades. The fish-eating guillemots have been washing up...
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Mail Online | 2/6/2019 | Laura Fox For Mailonline
Birds Of A Feather has been axed by ITV five years after the show was revived. ITV boss Kevin Lygo confirmed to The Mirror on Tuesday that there are no plans for another series of the sitcom after...
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phys.org | 2/5/2019 | Staff
Remote recording devices used to 'eavesdrop' on a reintroduced population of one of New Zealand's rarest birds have been heralded as a breakthrough for conservation.
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ScienceDaily | 1/28/2019 | Staff
"Air or water flows naturally generated during flight or swimming can prevent collisions and separations, allowing even individuals with different flapping motions to travel together," explains Joel...
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phys.org | 1/29/2019 | Staff
As wildfires become more prevalent and more severe, these 'megafires' are not only deadly and destructive, they may also negatively affect wildlife species that depend on habitat that lies in their...
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E! Online | 1/28/2019 | Staff
She's back. Of course, we're talking about Margot Robbie as the one and only Harley Quinn. More than two years after the Oscar nominee's silver screen debut as the DC Comics antihero, she's...
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Popular Science | 1/28/2019 | Staff
In previous models of this behavior, scientists assumed that each fish or bird was flapping exactly the same way, like a group of machines. But the reality is more complicated: even though every...
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phys.org | 1/28/2019 | Staff
Fish and birds are able to move in groups, without separating or colliding, due to a newly discovered dynamic: the followers interact with the wake left behind by the leaders.
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POPSUGAR Entertainment | 1/28/2019 | Mekishana Pierre
Harley Quinn is back, and she's bringing some new friends along for the ride! All decked out in her new look, and clutching a margarita glass filled with something colorful, Margot Robbie gives us...
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CNET | 1/28/2019 | Sean Keane
We got our first glimpse at Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) on Monday, with a feverish clip that reveals all the main characters very quickly indeed.
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phys.org | 1/28/2019 | Staff
Since 2005, when the highly-pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 started spreading across the globe, researchers have been faced with the question how the virus can spread across entire continents...
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phys.org | 1/25/2019 | Staff
In ecology, the diversity of species generally increases as you move toward the warmer latitudes of the tropics. A new study explores a curious exception to this trend, examining why biodiversity...
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Science News | 1/25/2019 | Susan Milius
S. Nowicki et al. Song is not a reliable signal of general cognitive ability in a songbird. Society for Comparative & Integrative Biology annual meeting, Tampa, Fla., January 4, 2019. A.L.
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phys.org | 1/24/2019 | Staff
For the first time, scientists have shown that fungal hitchhikers use birds to colonize new territories with their plant partners. In a New Phytologist study, the researchers provide the first...
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phys.org | 1/23/2019 | Staff
Researchers of the Department of Conservation Biology at the University of Göttingen have carried out research in Southwest Cameroon to assess which proportion of forest would be necessary to...
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ScienceDaily | 1/23/2019 | Staff
The research, reported in the journal Ecosphere, finds that one of the four species studied, the Bell's vireo (Vireo bellii bellii), has bounced back from historic declines to more than double its...
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phys.org | 1/23/2019 | Staff
Land conservation programs that have converted tens of thousands of acres of agricultural land in Illinois back to a more natural state appear to have helped some rare birds increase their...
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Popular Science | 1/23/2019 | Staff
Listen to this week’s podcast for some more facts about the days when artificial light was so rudimentary it seemed smart to turn birds into candles. Every couple years, the internet freaks out...
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ScienceDaily | 1/22/2019 | Staff
Human colour vision is based on three primary colours: red, green and blue. The colour vision of birds is based on the same three colours -- but also ultraviolet.
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Mail Online | 1/23/2019 | Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com
Swedish researchers have recreated how birds see the world using a special camera. The 'birds eye view' reveals just how different a bird's view of the world is.
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phys.org | 1/22/2019 | Staff
Designating relatively small parcels of land as protected areas for wildlife with no habitat management—which has frequently been done in urban-suburban locales around the world—likely does not...
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ScienceDaily | 1/22/2019 | Staff
The Göttingen team investigated relationships between forest cover and bird species richness using data from a 4,000 km2 large rainforest landscape. The study area contains protected areas as well...
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phys.org | 1/21/2019 | Staff
Mercury is a highly toxic and pervasive pollutant that has dramatically increased in the environment as a result of coal combustion, gold mining, cement production, hospital waste incineration, and...
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phys.org | 1/17/2019 | Staff
A genetic study uncovers that birds maintain a dynamic coevolutionary relationship with their feather mites. The study has involved the participation of the Estación Biológica de Doñana from the...
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earthsky.org | 1/14/2019 | Deborah ByrdPhoto by Swami Krishnananda. Our friend Swami Krishnananda in India wrote in early January 2019 of his visit to the beautiful Chilika Lake, not far from Puri. He wrote: Lake - Species - Birds -...
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Popular Science | 1/10/2019 | Staff
Every year, little black-and-white birds called pied flycatchers make the lengthy trek from sub-saharan Africa to northern Europe to feast on caterpillars, claim a nest, and have babies.
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phys.org | 1/10/2019 | Staff
Male birds are often the ones with the most vibrant feathers, or the most elaborate songs, but researchers said Thursday that what female birds could really appreciate is a male who shows his...
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phys.org | 1/10/2019 | Staff
Researchers have found yet another way in which climate change has been detrimental to migrating birds. As European winters have become warmer, pied flycatchers traveling from Africa over long...
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ScienceDaily | 1/9/2019 | Staff"We looked at data from thousands of eBird observers and 11 weather radar stations along the Gulf Coast from 1995 to 2015," says lead author Kyle Horton, an Edward W.
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phys.org | 1/9/2019 | Staff
A new study combining data from citizen scientists and weather radar stations is providing detailed insights into spring bird migration along the Gulf of Mexico and how these journeys may be...
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phys.org | 8/7/2018 | Staff
A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that small birds migrating from Scandinavia to Africa in the autumn occasionally fly as high as 4,000 metres above sea level—probably adjusting their...
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Variety | 12/30/2018 | Andrea Reiher
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “The Birds and the Bees,” the ninth episode of “Outlander” Season 4. The latest “Outlander” episode continued to be quite the emotional roller...
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IndieWire | 12/30/2018 | Staff
One would have to go to great lengths – such as wear a blindfold – to not be spoiled about “Bird Box,” Susanne Bier’s post-apocalyptic thriller that was released over the holidays.
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Business Insider | 12/26/2018 | Isobel Asher Hamilton
The gaming studio behind "Angry Birds" has made a version of the famous mobile game for mixed-reality headset Magic Leap. I got to demo the game, and it was the perfect use of Magic Leap's tech.
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Variety | 8/16/2019 | Dave McNary
Nicki Minaj has joined “The Angry Birds Movie 2,” Variety has learned exclusively. The Sony Animation sequel hits theaters on Aug. 16, 2019. Jason - Sudeikis - Josh - Gad - Bill Jason Sudeikis, Josh...
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phys.org | 12/24/2018 | Staff
Fragmentation within intact forests has a higher impact on vertebrate biodiversity than equivalent losses in already degraded landscapes, but the relationship between forest 'intactness' and...
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Mail Online | 12/23/2018 | Megan Sheets For Dailymail.com
A pair of birds got wildly intoxicated after dipping into a cocktail of various medications dumped at a California park. A man walking through Carr Park in Huntington Beach on Wednesday noticed the...
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ScienceDaily | 12/19/2018 | Staff
The effect of climate change on the breeding season of birds has been documented before, but in a limited context. Heather Watts, an avian physiologist, reported her finding in Ibis, the...
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ScienceDaily | 12/17/2018 | Staff
This is exactly what happened in Costa Rica earlier this year, when researchers witnessed a hummingbird defending its nest from what it interpreted to be a snake, but was actually a larva of the...
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ScienceDaily | 12/13/2018 | Staff
Ecological communities in mountain areas include species not found in any other habitats. These species are also very susceptible to climate change, as global warming is reducing their liveable...
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phys.org | 12/10/2018 | Staff
Iridescence is responsible for some of the most striking visual displays in the animal kingdom. Now, thanks to a new study of feathers from almost 100 modern bird species, scientists have gained new...
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phys.org | 12/7/2018 | Staff
As a birder, I had heard that if you paid careful attention to the head feathers on the downy woodpeckers that visited your bird feeders, you could begin to recognize individual birds.
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ScienceDaily | 12/7/2018 | StaffReporting in the journal Global Ecology and Conservation, the authors found that 24 square miles (61 square kilometers) of dry forest now surrounds the reservoir.
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phys.org | 12/7/2018 | Staff
A study by an international team of conservation scientists found that a dam built in Thailand 31 years ago has caused the local bird population to collapse. Reporting in the journal Global Ecology...
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phys.org | 12/5/2018 | Staff
A team of scientists led by Jingmai O'Connor from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported the first occurrence of medullary bone...
Should We Keep Studying a Fired Pastor’s Work? When a prominent pastor is forced out of his pulpit in the midst of scandal,...
Another welcome return to the earlier age for Confirmation I have thought about enabling comboxes on my blog for some time.
Historic United Methodist church sees ‘hopeful’ time for LGBTQ Christians CHICAGO (RNS) — The Rev. Myron McCoy is looking for a...
Weekly briefing: SBC sex abuse, James MacDonald, 'Dirty Dozen' Weekly briefing: SBC sex abuse, James MacDonald, 'Dirty Dozen'...
Researchers crack mystery of past maternal mortality rates Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have...
Flu season's been pretty quiet this year—here's why We haven’t been hearing much about influenza this year, and that’s only...
Amazon dumped New York, but cities still wooing the company Amazon's breakup with New York was still fresh when other cities...
Image: Jewels of the Maldives Copernicus Sentinel-2 brings you some of the jewels of the Maldives for Valentine's week.
Gravitational waves will settle cosmic conundrum The cosmos has been expanding for 13.8 billion years. Its present rate of...
Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete your direct messages When does “delete” really mean delete? Not always or even at all...
Meg Ryan Reveals She's Writing a Rom-Com — But Doesn't Want to Jinx It: I’ll 'Leave It at That' Meg Ryan is making a return to...
‘Birds Of Passage’ & ‘Donnybrook’: Don’t Sleep On These Indie Masterworks [AYT Podcast] On this episode of Adjust Your...
International Cinema Group Urges Festivals to Ban Non-Theatrically Released Films From Competition With the Berlin Film...
Here's How Much The Weeknd Spent on Bella Hadid’s Valentine's Day Surprise It's good to date The Weeknd. On Valentine's Day,...
NBC Expands Scripted Leadership Team With New Hire, Promotions NBC’s scripted network executive team is getting a little bigger.
Priyanka Chopra, 36, is a ray of sunshine as she wows in stunning yellow ensemble during London trip She seldom puts a...
Raccoons Keep Calm and Carry On! These cute raccoons appear to be waiting to be fed with the front one looking to keep every...
Rare "Dumbo" Octopus! This octopus fans out its tentacles as if showing off while having its picture taken!
Subway in 1905 - New York City, NY! This short glimpse into the past reveals a time radically different from today.
This Turkey Gives Out Hugs! This turkey has a great strategy for avoiding being a Thanksgiving dinner - just give another way,...
Tornado Coming in Laramie! This classic stovepipe in Laramie is causing some havoc as it continues on its way looking very...
Short, But Torrential Downpour in Nevada! This microburst drops lots of water on the Nevada landscape!
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