(via BBC Earth) The Northern Bald Ibis is one of the rarest birds in the world. They were hunted to extinction in Europe 300 years ago, but now a daring new project is returning them to the wild.

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Endangered birds don’t have many older birds around them to learn from. So, taking inspiration from Hollywood, conservationists in Europe are teaching endangered birds how to migrate. Conservationists ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Redondo Beach’s abundance of palm trees creates challenges for young owls learning to fly because they lack ...

Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found that when birds evolve ...

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Parenting a flock of Northern Bald Ibises is a demanding job. For the past six months, biologists Barbara Steininger and Helena Wehner have spent every day hand-feeding and raising dozens of these ...

How do Birds Learn to Migrate? Not all birds fly. And many birds don’t need to learn how to migrate, but experience still helps. For example, if you lived all your life in the same town being driven ...

Conservationists in Europe are trying to figure out how to do that with an endangered bird, the northern bald ibis. Johannes Fritz is one of them. He is a biologist based in Austria. JOHANNES FRITZ: ...