According to bird experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman, much about bird flying is dependent on the species, season, and what else the bird is doing. Songbirds that feed on insects vary in the elevation ...

Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found that when birds evolve ...

Ralph Venstreets/University of California, Davis A little over a year ago, Marcela Uhart was walking on the beach in Punta Delgada, Argentina. It was peak breeding session on this peninsula known for ...

When it comes to what birds have and what humans don’t, your mind might first land on the ability to fly. However, birds are also pretty good at navigating from the air… assuming, that is, they know ...

This video captures the tense moment when a flock of birds passes alarmingly close to a commercial aircraft during final ...

Indiana’s skies are a nighttime highway in the early weeks of May as millions of birds make the migratory passage north for their summer homes. Herons, sparrows and buntings of all varieties fly in ...

Bird migration is ramping up in Michigan, indicating the changing seasons and giving birders a chance to see hundreds of species before winter. Millions of birds are winging their way south across the ...