My two-year-old was asking another mom for ice from her cooler and then sucking on it, dropping it in the grass near a pile of bird feathers and putting it back in his mouth.

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But Dr Richard Griffiths and Bela Tiwari of Oxford University have devised a technique to sex the endangered bird from minute samples of DNA taken from moulted feathers.

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Among the subjects Mr. Hanson alighted upon were the Club-winged Manakin, a bird of the cloud forests of the Andes that strums its feathers like a violin.

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The rest of the bird is processed for its meat, remaining organs, bones and feathers.

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When we wear or use those feathers, we're calling on the energy of the entire bird.

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Earlier, the commission slapped a ban on all imports of live birds and untreated feathers from both Turkey and Romania, where bird flu was also detected.

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All products ever shipped from the Peanut Corp. of America plant in Plainview were recalled after the Texas Department of State Health Services said it found dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers in a crawl space above a production area on Wednesday.

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