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• Birds Evolved to Avoid Being Roadkill - Sarah Williams, Science Now
• Strange Adventures with Poisonous Animals - Matt Soniak, Mental Floss
• How Human Language Could Have Evolved from Birdsong - MIT
• Urban Lights Cause Early Sexual Maturation in Birds - Max Planck Instit.
• 62-Year-Old Bird Hatches Another Chick - U.S. Geological Survey
• What's Killing All of Vienna's Blackbirds? - University of Vienna
• Bird Migration: Ultimate Red-Eye Flight - Bartell & Moore, Am. Scientist
• How an Owl Can Rotate Its Head Without Killing Itself - Johns Hopkins
• Why Pigeons Get Lost in New York State - Rebecca Morelle, BBC News
• Birds Impress Each Other with Fractals - Clara Moskowitz, Live Science
• New Dino Fossil Challenges Bird Evolution Theory - Univ. of Southampton
• Are Cats Serial Killers or Scapegoats? - Joss Fong
• Odd, Ancient Bird Had Sharp Teeth - Tia Ghose, LiveScience
• Birds May Appreciate Music, Too - Emory University
• Huge Extinct Eagles Ate Monster-Sized Birds - Dan Nosowitz, PopSci
• Birds Use Cigarettes to Keep Mites Away - Roberta Kwok, Conservation Mag
• Tree-Jumping Taught Dinosaurs to Fly - Niels Ebdrup
• Giant Eocene Bird Was Not a Ruthless Killer - Michelle Warwicker, BBC
• Dinosaurs' Role in the Evolution of Bird Flight - University of Bristol
• City Birds Adapt to Living with Hungry Cats - Elizabeth Preston, Inkfish
• Can Physics Reveal a Theory of Bird Flocking? - MIT Tech. Review
• Tiny Birds Play a Tit-for-Tat Game - Ross Pomeroy
• Birds Abandon Chicks if They Don't Know Password - Ed Yong, Discover
• Want Food? Squawk the Password. - Zoe Corbyn, Scientific American
• Figaro the Cockatoo Makes, Uses Tools - Virginia Morell, Science Now
• Migratory Birds Can Spread Hemorrhagic Fever - Uppsala Universitet
• Birds Addicted to Rubbing Themselves with Ants - Robert Krulwich, NPR
• Birds Catching Avian Malaria in Alaska - Susan Milius, ScienceNews
• Parasitic Birds: Freeloaders at the Ant Parade - Natalie Angier, NY Times
• Evidence for Symbolic Feather Use by Neanderthals - Ross Pomeroy
• Scrub Jay Birds React to Their Dead - University of California-Davis
• Putin Plays Papa to Endangered Cranes - Benjamin Bidder, Der Spiegel
• Sandpipers Better off Choosing Sex over Sleep - Kate Shaw, Ars Technica
• Does Rice Really Make Birds Explode? - Matt Soniak, Mental Floss
• Birds in Fluctuating Weather Are More Flexible Singers - Science Codex
• Bird-Cam Shows Bird Diving 150 Feet into Ocean - EurekAlert!
• Children, Not Birds, Learn the 'Impossible' - Michael Balter, Science Now
• Did Birds Evolve Flight by Falling from Trees? - Daniel Engber, PopSci
• Brains and Beaks - PZ Myers, ScienceBlogs
• Pacific Northwest Seabirds Eating More Plastic - Univ. of British Columbia
• Hormones Dictate When Birds Fly the Nest - University of Leeds
• Diving Seabirds Live Long & Healthy, Then Drop Dead - EurekAlert!
• Bird Performs Mating Call by Rubbing Wings - Alejandra Martins, BBC
• Bird Skulls Resemble Juvenile Dinosaurs - Michael Marshall, NewScientist
• For Monogamous Sparrows, Infidelity Is Costly - Science Codex
• Why Aren't Cities Littered with Dead Pigeons? - John Metcalfe, Atlantic
• Do Parrots Know What They're Talking About? - Will Oremus, Slate
• Pigeons May 'Hear' Magnetic Fields - Daniel Cressey, Nature News
• Birds Know Where They Aren't Wanted - Caitlin Kight, Science 2.0