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Why did the chicken cross the ocean? To get to America before Columbus - and from the other direction - according to a new report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Many scholars had thought chickens arrived in the New World with the early Spanish or Portuguese explorers around the ye...

A seagull has turned shoplifter by wandering into a shop and helping itself to crisps. The bird walks into the RS McColl newsagents in the Castlegate, Aberdeen, when the door is open and makes off with cheese Doritos. The seagull, nicknamed Sam, has now become so popular that locals have started payi...

Extinct, giant eagle was a fearsome predator Before humans colonised New Zealand about 750 years ago, the largest inhabitants of the islands were birds unlike those anywhere else in the world. Giant, flightless birds known as moa were the main plant-eaters, feeding both on the ground and in the bra...

The Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) was the only parrot species native to the eastern United States. The last wild specimen was killed in Okeechobee County, Florida, in 1904, and the last captive bird died at the Cincinnati Zoo on February 21, 1918. Read more

The Poouli or Black-faced Honeycreeper (Melamprosops phaeosoma) is a critically endangered and possibly extinct bird species that is endemic to Hawaii. On September 9, 2004, one of the remaining birds, a male, was captured and taken to the Maui Bird Conservation Centre in Olinda, in an attempt to...

The Dusky Seaside Sparrow, Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens, was a non-migratory subspecies of the Seaside Sparrow, found in Southern Florida in the natural salt marshes of Merritt Island and along the St. Johns River. The last definite known individual died on June 17, 1987 and the species was of...

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Bird Chickens (Preview)	Off Topic	4	1618	Apr 19 20:41 2012 by Blobrana
Why did the chicken cross the ocean? To get to America before Columbus - and from the other direction - according to a new report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Many scholars had thought chickens arrived in the New World with the early Spanish or Portuguese explorers around the ye...
Bird Sam seagull (Preview)	Off Topic	1	897	Jul 21 01:31 2007 by Blobrana
A seagull has turned shoplifter by wandering into a shop and helping itself to crisps. The bird walks into the RS McColl newsagents in the Castlegate, Aberdeen, when the door is open and makes off with cheese Doritos. The seagull, nicknamed Sam, has now become so popular that locals have started payi...
Extinction Bird Haast's Eagle (Preview)	Off Topic	0	806	Sep 12 10:10 2009 by Blobrana
Extinct, giant eagle was a fearsome predator Before humans colonised New Zealand about 750 years ago, the largest inhabitants of the islands were birds unlike those anywhere else in the world. Giant, flightless birds known as moa were the main plant-eaters, feeding both on the ground and in the bra...
Bird Carolina Parakeet (Preview)	Trash	0	886	Feb 21 00:27 2011 by Blobrana
The Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) was the only parrot species native to the eastern United States. The last wild specimen was killed in Okeechobee County, Florida, in 1904, and the last captive bird died at the Cincinnati Zoo on February 21, 1918. Read more
Bird Black-faced Honeycreeper (Preview)	Trash	1	1300	Nov 26 07:52 2012 by Blobrana
The Poouli or Black-faced Honeycreeper (Melamprosops phaeosoma) is a critically endangered and possibly extinct bird species that is endemic to Hawaii. On September 9, 2004, one of the remaining birds, a male, was captured and taken to the Maui Bird Conservation Centre in Olinda, in an attempt to...
Bird The Dusky Seaside Sparrow (Preview)	Trash	0	772	Jun 17 06:09 2012 by Blobrana
The Dusky Seaside Sparrow, Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens, was a non-migratory subspecies of the Seaside Sparrow, found in Southern Florida in the natural salt marshes of Merritt Island and along the St. Johns River. The last definite known individual died on June 17, 1987 and the species was of...