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If birds are crashing into your windows, they don’t have a death wish. They’re confused, and you can help.

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The Sarus crane (Grus antigone) has been crowned the tallest flying bird, measuring up to 1.8 meters (5.9 feet) in height with a wingspan of around 2.5 meters (8.2 feet).

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It’s been a big week for birds. BirdCast—a migration forecasting tool operated by Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology—tracked a whopping 1.8 million birds passing over DC on ...

If she looked up? UHART: It was just, like, birds flying, you know, falling out of the sky dead. So, yeah, I mean, it is very dramatic. It is very dramatic.