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Drunk Pigeon Is All Of Us (As Well As New Zealand’s Bird Of The Year)
New Zealand has some weird birds, and they know it. Sure, you’ve probably seen the Seussian kiwi, but what about the kākāpo, a flightless parrot that looks like a particularly friendly owl? Have you heard of the morepork, an owl so named because it sounds like it shouts “MORE PORK,” or the wrybill, the only…
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Mysteries Of The Dodo Revealed Centuries After Sailors Ate Them All
While the flightless dodo has long since died out — because humans ate the crap out of them — its memory lives on in our imagination. So much about the quirky birds — which were endemic only to the island of Mauritius — remains a mystery, but new research has finally provided some insights into…