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A Black Crowned Crane from East Africa looks towards the camera as it parades in the Bird Park in Walsrode, northern Germany, April 8. Thousands of birds from about 650 species live in the park. Focke Strangmann/dapd/AP
A flock of migratory flamingos is seen in a pond on the outskirts of Ahmadabad, India, Dec. 15, 2009. Ajit Solanki/AP
This photo taken March 27, shows a peacock at the Racine, Wis. zoo displaying his tail feathers to impress or help find a mate. The zoo currently has four peafowls that are housed in the aviary for the winter. The birds will be allowed to roam the zoo grounds when it becomes warmer. Gregory Shaver/Journal Times/AP
A Hyacinth Macaw, an endangered species, perches on the head of a caretaker inside the conditioning flight cage of the Birds International Inc. (BII) Avicultural park, Breeding and Research Center in Quezon City, Philippines February 17. Around 2,000 to 3,000 parrots of various species are bred every year inside the facility which aims to protect them from illegal poaching and forest destruction. Rouelle Umali/Reuters
In this May 9, 2008 file photo, a male sage grouse fights for the attention of female sage grouse on a mating ground, southwest of Rawlins, Wyo., Biologists and energy interests are proposing long-term studies of the effects of wind farms on sage grouse, a football-sized bird that is a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act. Jerret Raffety/Rawlins Daily Times/AP/File
A bald eagle lands next to its mate at their nest in West Newbury, Mass. on March 17. Bald eagles are making a comeback in the United States to the point where they were taken off the Interior Department's Endangered Species List in 2007, though they are still protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Brian Snyder/Reuters
A Single-wattled Cassowary from West Africa is pictured at the Bird Park in Walsrode, northern Germany, April 8. Thousands of birds from about 650 species live in the park. Focke Strangmann/dapd/AP
Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is shown with its young at Atka Bay, Antarctica. Newscom
A red macaw battles a blue-and-gold macaw for food March 16, 2009, at the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand. Sakchai Lalit/AP
Birds, silhouetted against the sky, sit on a roof in Berlin as one flies off, April 5. Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters
In this Mar. 27, 2009 file photo, a red-winged blackbird sings at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Titusville, Florida. Stan Honda/AFP/Newscom
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The fine arts auction house Christie's is auctioning off a huge, partly fossilized egg laid by an elephant bird, an extinct creature native to Madagascar. The starting price: $45,000.
Larger than a rugby ball and several hundred years old, a giant, partly fossilized egg laid by an extinct bird is set to be auctioned by Christie's. The auction house expects the egg to fetch up to $45,000.
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