• He reminded Hadley of a chattering bird, a large endearingly gawky bird like an ostrich, long-legged, long-necked, with a beaky face, quick-darting inquisitive eyes.

    NEWYORKER: Pumpkin Head

  • Found only in these woods, the large bird is a beautiful sight, with its distinctive green and blue colouration, crested head feathers and, when in flight, the red flash of its wings.

    BBC: Step back in time in South Africa��s Garden Route

  • The breast is in the middle with one leg and wing on either side, making a large flattened bird.

    NPR: Recipes: 'Big Sky Cooking'

  • Since a ten-pound bird will serve a large group, this is a recipe that we rely on throughout the year.

    NPR: Recipes: 'Big Sky Cooking'

  • Some notable additions include a large modern bird-feeder, a new viewing station that overlooks West 26th Street and a flat, grassy expanse, ideal for sunbathing, reading a book, picnicking and people watching.

    BBC: New York��s floating freight line

  • "A single bird seen on a large open flat about half a mile west of town, " Loring scribbled on June 5, 1897, upon seeing a northern spotted owl in Donner Summit, California.

    CNN: Ninety years of birdwatchers' notes going online

  • However, when researchers looked at the 14 bird species that lived in both regions, they found that the same level of radiation was associated with twice as large a drop in bird numbers in Fukushima as in Chernobyl.

    ECONOMIST: Radiation and evolution

  • Researchers believe its short arms and large claw show how bird-like dinosaurs evolved independently of birds.

    BBC: New dinosaur discovery solves evolutionary bird puzzle

  • Even more surprising was the decision in February of the federal and Alberta governments to charge Syncrude, a large tar-sands processor, with offences under environmental and bird-protection laws for the deaths of 500 ducks in one of the company's tailing ponds last April.

    ECONOMIST: Stephen Harper looks to Washington, not Alberta

  • The country's Ministry of Health had then moved to allay fears over the outbreak, saying that although further human bird flu cases were possible throughout China, there wouldn't be a large-scale outbreak, Xinhua and CCTV said.

    CNN: China records its fourth bird flu death this year

  • The Ornithomimids - from the Latin for "bird mimics" - superficially resembled modern-day ostriches, with a toothless beak, large eyes and long legs, but they also had a long, thick tail.

    BBC: Dinosaur feathers 'developed for courtship'

  • Following his guidelines, many nations are making large quantities of what they believe will be useful vaccines in the hope of defeating a possible pandemic of bird flu, should the virus spread from Asia.

    ECONOMIST: Obituary

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