Birds fly around a kite during a festival in Ahmadabad, India on Jan. 10.
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A duckling climbs a curb near Ellis Lake in Marysville, Calif. on March 26.
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FARM FRESH: Turkeys raised without the use of antibiotics at a farm in Lebanon, Pa., Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration wants drug companies to help limit the use of antibiotics in farm animals, a practice that scientists say has contributed to a surge in drug-resistant bacteria.
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PERCHED PARROTS: Parrots sat on German Chancellor Angela Merkel as she visited a bird park in Marlow, Germany, Tuesday.
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Birds outside a Whole Foods. iPhone 4S, Snapseed.
This bird has inexplicably figured out how to snowboard. And seems to enjoy it. What? I don’t even…
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A bird sits on a perch in Sausalito, Calif., as clouds passed over the San Francisco skyline.
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Lesser flamingoes rest on their only breeding ground, Lake Natron, at the foot of Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania.
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What is astonishing is that pigeons, who learned to peck numbers on a screen in order, performed just as well in tests as rhesus monkeys at numerical competence.
This is the first time complex math skills have been discovered in non-primates, which means birds and primates either evolved these abilities separately or share a common ancestor. The latter possibility means that both would have been around 300 million years ago.
photo credit: Charles Funk
Snow Geese in flight. Kleinfeltersville, PA
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Swan on the River Avon (National Geographic Photo of the Day) by by Jason Wickens:
Captured one morning along the River Avon, this beautiful swan was cleaning itself before stretching its wings in a classic pose. The early morning sun rays add to the surreal image as they burn away the river mist.
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I love the markings of giraffes, and when this oxpecker clung to the side of one, I thought it would make a perfect “abstract painting” to capture the little bird on.
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Bee-Eater in Flight by Jószsef L. Szentpéteri
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A brilliant blur as it plucks a butterfly from the air, the European bee-eater leads a colorful life on three continents.
