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The absolute record for non-stop migratory flight requires doubling body fat and cannibalizing its own viscera to shed weight.
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For centuries ornithology believed toxic birds did not exist, until an accidental brush in Papua New Guinea revealed a chemical weapon worthy of dart frogs.
Nature
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In the heart of the Amazon lives a bird whose crop functions like an ox's rumen and whose chicks climb trees with prehistoric limbs.
Animals
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An ancient evolutionary partnership where birds and African foragers converse with ancestral sounds to harvest beehives.
Animals
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The unusual bone that wraps around its head like a seatbelt and defies the laws of head trauma
Animals
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How this small bird defies biological fatigue by eating, mating, and sleeping in midair.