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Chicks link shapes with 'bouba' and 'kiki' sounds just like humans

Humans from many cultures tend to associate the nonsense words “bouba” and “kiki” with different shapes – and now it seems that 3-day-old chicks have the same inclinations

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An amazing great bustard gets ready for a new nature exhibition

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An amazing great bustard gets ready for a new nature exhibition

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Bird specimen at NHM Tring

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Auks, Darwin's finches and a mummified falcon: Inside NHM bird archive

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Great Kiskadee

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Songs that birds 'sing' in their dreams translated into sound

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MRI image of the 250th California condor egg to hatch at the San Diego Zoo Safari.

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See inside an endangered California condor egg just before it hatches

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A female Japanese tit fluttering its wings

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Birds make an 'after you' gesture to prompt their mate to enter nest

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Blue tits shared a tree hollow with bird-eating bats – and survived

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Flightless terror birds stalked Antarctica after the dinosaurs' demise

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Storks refine their migration routes as they learn from experience

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Magnificent yellow-crested bird photographed for the first time

The yellow-crested helmetshrike was considered lost after going unseen for nearly 20 years – now an expedition has rediscovered what appears to be a healthy population in central Africa

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Watch parrots use their beaks for a newly identified form of motion

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Owls may actually be able to turn their heads a full 360 degrees

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Sharp decline of African birds of prey puts them at risk of extinction

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Honeyguide birds respond to special calls from human honey-hunters

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