Now an international team led by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences believes Archaeopteryx should indeed be considered a bird.

NPR: New Study Restores Famed Fossil To "Bird" Branch

Now an international team led by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences believes Archaeopteryx (ahr-kee-AHP'-teh-rihx) should indeed be considered a bird.

NPR: New Study Restores Famed Fossil To "Bird" Branch

Shrubs should also be removed, while a limit should be placed on crops expanding further into the bird's range.

BBC: African lark soon to be extinct

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.

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