Topic: Birds
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NFL new uniforms, best to worst
The Jacksonville Jaguars and three other teams have released new uniform designs in the past year – with mixed results. Here are the league's four new uniforms, subjectively ranked from worst to best.
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Bestselling books the week of 4/1/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 3/10/13, according to IndieBound*
See what's selling in bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 3/4/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in bookstores across America?
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Bestselling books the week of 2/28/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in bookstores across America?
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Why wind farms kill eagles with federal impunity
Oil companies are prosecuted when a bird drowns in a waste pit. But the Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind-energy company for similar protected bird deaths. An estimated 573,000 birds are killed by US wind farms each year.
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Brood II: After 17 years, billions of eastern US cicadas rise again
After 17 years out of sight and under foot, billions of noisy, bulge-eyed Brood II cicadas are crawling out of the ground in the eastern US to mate, hatch offspring, and start the cycle anew.
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Rossellini's 'Mammas' shows maternal instinct in animals not all kind
Isabella Rossellini is convinced that, in the maternal animal world, anything goes. 'Mammas,' a series of short videos, has Rossellini playing the role of nine different animals to show the viewer that some mothers lie, are polygamous, and walk out on their animal children all the time.
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Unconditional love
A Christian Science perspective.
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NFL new uniforms, best to worst
The Jacksonville Jaguars and three other teams have released new uniform designs in the past year – with mixed results. Here are the league's four new uniforms, subjectively ranked from worst to best.
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Mary-Louise Parker returns to Broadway this fall
Mary-Louise Parker will star in the world premiere of the play 'The Snow Geese.' Mary-Louise Parker previously starred on the Showtime series 'Weeds.'
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Poop in paradise: The smell of (environmental) success?
A swanky beach enclave seeks relief from the stench of bird poop, but environmentalists say the guano shows local birds have been brought back from the brink of extinction.
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Modern Parenthood Citizen science: How families can contribute to real science
Citizen science has led to a number of discoveries throughout history. Many agencies need help that families -– yes kids too! – can provide, from measuring precipitation to charting night skies to recording first bloom.
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Bestselling books the week of 4/1/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Giant egg for sale: Massive egg was laid by now-extinct giant bird
The giant egg available for sale was laid by a now-extinct giant bird that resembled an 11-foot tall ostrich. The egg is about 100 times the size of an average chicken's.
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Bestselling books the week of 3/10/13, according to IndieBound*
See what's selling in bookstores across America.
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How did those wolves get to the Falkland Islands? Scientists may have an answer.
Australian scientists believe that they now understand how a reddish, dog-sized carnivore could have wound up on the Falkland Islands, 285 miles from the nearest mainland, some 16,000 years ago.
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Dogged bovines
As dusk approaches, they gather at the fence and stare inside the cabin.
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Bestselling books the week of 3/4/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in bookstores across America?
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Bestselling books the week of 2/28/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in bookstores across America?
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Bestselling books the week of 2/21/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at bookstores across America.
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New owl species makes biologists' heads spin
The discovery of a new owl species on an Indonesian island is described as 'a wake-up call for ornithologists.'
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Bestselling books the week of 1/17/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 1/10/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 1/3/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Nature Wars
How can we best handle the wildlife now turning up in our own backyards?
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Bestselling books the week of 12/20/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 12/13/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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On the Road to Mr. Mineo's
Barbara O'Connor never disappoints. Like her other children's novels, this one is a keeper.
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'12 days of Christmas' cost: How much is a partridge in a pear tree?
'12 days of Christmas' cost will be a little higher this year. The prices of partridges, pear trees, gold rings, and swans a-swimming all increased from 2011. Below are the estimated costs of all the items from the '12 days of Christmas' carol.
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