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bird

[burd] / bɜrd /
NOUN
flying animal
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Saint-Gobain uses numerical simulations and "physical tests representative of a sizeable bird impact" to test its windows against this threat.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

“There’s a time for a bird to change his feathers, and it’s with the times,” he said on CNBC.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

The scientific research in those cases involved work around the mosquito-born chikungunya virus, a "highly-pathogenic" strain of the bird flu, a family of viruses that include smallpox and mpox, venoms and other toxins.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

Inside the coprolite, scientists identified several feathers, tiny scales from a gar fish, and leg bones belonging to a hesperornithiform bird.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

I remembered the other day with Mila, standing together on the bridge: the bird we saw, and what I told her about it.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Indonesian villager Octavius wades through the forest in rubber boots and tattered joggers, ears pricked, eyes peeled, a telephoto lens on his phone primed to capture orangutans, monkeys or birds.

From Barron's Sep. 17, 2026

The foundation has called the breeding attempts "remarkable", adding that one of the male adult birds has only one leg after losing it five years ago.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

New analysis techniques developed in recent years have provided strong evidence that theropods like T. rex, velociraptors and other two-legged dinosaurs were endothermic animals like mammals and birds, rather than cold-blooded, or exothermic, like reptiles.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

Nearly every dinosaur lineage disappeared, including most types of birds.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

They sat on the beach in the dark to study the stars, and climbed cliffs to see birds in their nests.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr




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