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  2. Talking bird - Wikipedia

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    Mimicking human speech is not limited to captive birds. Wild Australian magpies, lyrebirds and bowerbirds that interact with humans but remain free can still mimic human speech. [6] Songbirds and parrots are the two groups of birds able to learn and mimic human speech. [5] [7] Both belong to the clade Psittacopasseres. If then introduced to ...

  3. Human uses of birds - Wikipedia

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    In mythology, birds were sometimes monsters, like the Roc and the Māori's Pouākai, a giant bird capable of snatching humans. [96] In Persian mythology, the simurgh was a gigantic bird, the first to come into existence, and it nested on the tree of plant life that grew in the great ocean beside the tree of immortality.

  4. Falconry - Wikipedia

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    The practice of hunting with a conditioned falconry bird is also called "hawking" or "gamehawking", although the words hawking and hawker have become used so much to refer to petty traveling traders, that the terms "falconer" and "falconry" now apply to most use of trained birds of prey to catch game. However, many contemporary practitioners ...

  5. Bird - Wikipedia

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    Birds figure throughout human culture. About 120 to 130 species have become extinct due to human activity since the 17th century, and hundreds more before then. Human activity threatens about 1,200 bird species with extinction, though efforts are underway to protect them.

  6. List of avian humanoids - Wikipedia

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    Ba, the part of a human's soul that roughly represents its personality, depicted as a bird with a human head. [2] Calais and Zetes, the sons of the North Wind Boreas. [3] Chareng, also called Uchek Langmeidong, a mythical creature from Meitei mythology that is part-human and part-hornbill, having an avian body and a human head.

  7. Ornithology - Wikipedia

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    Wild birds impact many human activities, while domesticated birds are important sources of eggs, meat, feathers, and other products. Applied and economic ornithology aim to reduce the ill effects of problem birds and enhance gains from beneficial species. Red-billed queleas are a major agricultural pest in parts of Africa.

  8. Human–dinosaur coexistence - Wikipedia

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    The most massive birds known to have coexisted with humans are the moa of New Zealand [7] and the elephant birds of Madagascar. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The largest moa, the South Island giant moa ( Dinornis robustus ), could reach heights of over 3.5 meters (11.5 feet). [ 7 ]

  9. Golden eagles in human culture - Wikipedia

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    Mankind has been fascinated by the golden eagle as early as the beginning of recorded history. Most early-recorded cultures regarded the golden eagle with reverence. Only after the Industrial Revolution, when sport-hunting became widespread and commercial stock farming became internationally common, did humans started to widely regard golden eagles as a threat to their livelihoods.