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'Unusual' bird sighting draws viral attention to New York town: 'People go their whole lifetime and not see this'

Within a short amount of time, there were more than 200 reported sightings. 'Unusual' bird sighting draws viral attention to ...

From Montezuma oropendola to Gila woodpecker: 5 birds with the most unique nests

Here is a look at five bird species that build some of the world’s most unusual nests, ranging from clay ovens to woven ...
Ocracoke Observer

An elegant bird makes a rare guest appearance on the Outer Banks

An Elegant Tern. Photo by Bob Lewis By Peter Vankevich It was early Thursday, Sept. 25, at Cape Point on Hatteras Island. As Bob Lewis focused his long lens on a Black Tern, he noticed in the ...
RealClearScience

Strange Hybrid Bird Found in Texas Backyard

Biologists at The University of Texas at Austin, who have reported discovering a bird that’s the natural result of a green jay and a blue jay’s mating, say it may be among the first examples of a ...
KSAT

Universal City woman discovers rare hybrid bird in her backyard

UNIVERSAL CITY, Texas – A Universal City woman discovered a rare hybrid bird in her backyard. Donna Currey, a retired U.S. Air Force veteran, said she was sitting on her porch three years ago when she ...
Belfast News Letter on MSN

Rare Bird Alert: Ten unusual visiting birds spotted across the UK this week - and where they were last seen

The steppe grey shrike is a rare subspecies of the great grey shrike, which the BTO says visits UK heathlands in small ...

Meet the spiders that look and smell like bird poop: A strange trick for survival and hunting

Two new species of bird-dropping spiders, Phrynarachne gorochovi and Phrynarachne storozhenkoi, have been discovered in the ...