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

The NHM Tring archive houses over 1 million bird specimens, including rare and extinct species such as Darwin's finches, great auk eggs and mummified falcons.  We take a peek inside the vast collection

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Bird specimen at NHM Tring

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

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Great Kiskadee

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See inside an endangered California condor egg just before it hatches

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

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A love bird

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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

Owls are famously good at rotating their heads, but now anatomical findings suggest they really could go a full 360 degrees without injuring themselves

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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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Chinstrap penguins take thousands of very short naps every day

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Unknown animals left birdlike footprints long before birds existed

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