What started as an unusual call for Deptford police quickly turned into a feathered fiasco Thursday as officers tried — and failed — to wrangle a loose peacock in someone's backyard. Arriving officers ...

An escaped peacock has ruffled the feathers of officers from the Deptford Township Police Department. Police got a call they were not expecting on St. Patrick’s Day when a resident reported that the ...

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In a new study, wild regent honeyeaters became vocal tutors, teaching their disappearing song to birds in a captive breeding program. By Emily Anthes Regent honeyeaters were once abundant in the ...

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Study finds that the mass extinction caused by an asteroid about 66 million years ago led to critical changes in bird genomes that ultimately sparked the incredibly diversity living birds. Shortly ...