Kyoto film crew caught using firecrackers to scare birds into air
TAKASHIMA, Shiga -- A film crew from a major Japanese movie studio was caught March 1 using firecrackers to scare swans into the air to get a shot of them in flight.
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Japan - Endangered crane's beak regenerates after treatment
Endangered crane's beak regenerates after treatment
A male Siberian crane's beak, which had been broken last year during a scuffle between two birds at a Tokyo zoo, has completely grown back, marking the first such case at a Japanese zoo.... -
Japan - 'Extinct' shearwater species found in Ogasawara Islands
'Extinct' shearwater species found in Ogasawara Islands
A species of shearwater thought to have been extinct for 20 years has been discovered in the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo.
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Japan - Haneda Airport to strengthen measures against bird hits
Haneda Airport to strengthen measures against bird hits
The transport ministry will spend 1 billion yen ($13 million) this year to beef up nighttime surveillance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo to reduce the increasing risk of bird strikes... -
Japan - Crows recognize buddies' calls
Crows recognize buddies' calls
Crows can identify the individual caws of other crows they live with, according to researchers.
Crows in adjoining cages (Provided by Noriko Kondo)
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Japan - Fukui to lease storks from Hyogo for breeding
Fukui to lease storks from Hyogo for breeding
FUKUI (Kyodo) -- The Fukui prefectural government said Monday it will lease a pair of storks from Hyogo Prefecture for breeding and the eventual release of the offspring into the wild.
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Japan - Sparrow numbers plummeting in Japan as well
Sparrow numbers plummeting in Japan as well
Sparrows, perhaps the most familiar of all wild birds, are a vanishing species.
Sparrow populations in Japan are plummeting, just as they are in Europe.
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Once extinct in wild, Oriental white storks making slow comeback in Japan
Oriental white storks, a special protected species in Japan that once vanished from the wild in the 1970s, are making a gradual comeback, with some 1,000 sightings... -
Japan - Budgies have sense of rhythm: study
Budgies have sense of rhythm: study
Budgerigars have the ability to peck in time with a rhythm, a team of Japanese researchers has found -- a finding researchers say sheds light on the language-learning process.....
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Laos - Another new [bird] species found in Laos
Another new [bird] species found in Laos
Bald-Faced Bird discovered
The remote areas of Laos continue to amaze the world's scientists with new discoveries and reinforces the importance of this region as a biodiversity hotspot....