Now I know she was going for the same dopamine rush you get when the fat black bird explodes right in the middle of a stone fortress.

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The loggerhead shrike, a small grey, black and white bird, has declined by 92% since then.

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Levin named his company Black Duck Software after an orphaned bird he'd rescued as a child.

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And if you want a symbol of 21st Century Britain, why not go for the black redstart, a robin-like bird that has adapted to the furious urbanisation of the last two centuries.

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Away from politics, he was a bird fancier dedicated to breeding a pure black budgerigar.

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The 400, 000-acre Ocala National Forest is a tangle of springs, sand-pine scrub and subtropical forest that is home to raccoons, flying squirrels, otters and black bears, as well as many species of bird.

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The wetland, which includes the coastal Unryul Migratory Birds Reserve, play an important conservation role as habitats for shore birds and critical areas for many migratory bird species of north-east Asia such as black-faced spoonbill (Platalea minor), Chinese egret (Egretta eulophotes) and red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis).

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What I call a "Black Swan" is an exceptional unpredictable event that, unlike the bird, carries a huge impact.

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The Welsh Black Grouse Recovery Project was launched in June 1999 to halt the bird's serious decline from 264 males in 1986 to 131 in 1997.

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