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Bird ringing is the term used in the UK and in some other parts of Europe, while the term bird banding is more often used in the U.S. and Australia. [49] bird strike The impact of a bird or birds with an airplane in flight. [50] body down The layer of small, fluffy down feathers that lie underneath the outer contour feathers on a bird's body. [51]
Amateur bird enthusiasts (called birdwatchers, twitchers or, more commonly, birders) number in the millions. [298] Many homeowners erect bird feeders near their homes to attract various species. Bird feeding has grown into a multimillion-dollar industry; for example, an estimated 75% of households in Britain provide food for birds at some point ...
Bird Global, an American scooter share company; Bird College, a performing arts college in London, England; BIRD Foundation, an Israel–U.S. R&D organisation; Bird Machine Company, an American company from the 1900s
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents
The bird at the center of the worst single-species mortality event in modern history isn’t recovering, scientists say. ... Alaska’s murre population made up 25% of the world’s population of ...
A few yards away, a fling of brown birds called dunlins was probing the sand for crab eggs with their long black beaks and nervously eyeing Seiler and McKenzie as the pair made their way down the ...
A significant portion of the audiovisual content available in Birds of the World is collected through citizen science data collection as provided by eBird, [3] but content is also included from the Macaulay Library, as it was gathered in the Internet Bird Collection by Josep del Hoyo, the initial founder of Lynx Edicions, and his colleagues in ...
And a group called Bird Names for Birds sent a petition to the ornithological society urging it to “outline a plan to change harmful common names” of birds.