birds

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The third case involved covert surveillance at a hen harrier roost in the Yorkshire Dales where investigators captured evidence of a planned attempt to kill one of the UK's rarest birds of prey.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

It was not immediately clear how many birds had been affected.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

The sudden drop in the number of laying hens and the added energy cost of keeping birds indoors due to restrictions caused shortages.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

Certain birds possess impressive individual talents—memorizing where hundreds of caches of food are buried, navigating thousands of miles over oceans—but do any species excel across the board?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

There were plenty of rabbits, chipmunks, and birds to try it on, but every time I poked the net out toward one of them, it would scare them half to death.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls