Lohmann Brown chickens stand outside a barn at Meadow Haven Farmin Sheffield, Illinois. The only birds that survived the mass exticntion seem to be ground-dwellers, including ancient relatives of chickens, ducks, and ostriches.
Photograph by Daniel Acker, Bloomberg, Getty Images
Common merganser ducks rest on Lake Placid in New York.
Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic Creative
A large herd of ostriches roams a farm in Dnipropetrovsk province, Ukraine.
Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic Creative
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