The discovery of bird DNA in bat poo has suggested that a handful of bat species are able to hunt migrating birds.

Most migrants fly after sunset to save energy and avoid predators. Use dark skies, simple gear, and forecasts to witness the ...

Merely balls of fire far, far away, stars may roar as they burn; but they have no gentle sound that gives them voice. Autumn ...

For the first time, scientists documented direct evidence of a bat preying on a bird at high altitude. During spring and fall migrations, billions of birds take to the night skies. The high-altitude ...

Most will travel to the Southern U.S., while some long-distance migratory birds leave the United States entirely to winter in ...

Long-distance bird migration is one of the natural world's most inspiring phenomena-and how we learned about it is just as ...

To exploit a rich food resource that remains largely inaccessible to most predators, Europe’s largest bat captures, kills, and consumes nocturnally migrating birds in flight high above the ground, ...

When a total solar eclipse plunged North America into darkness on the afternoon of April 8, 2024, the songbirds in ...

Milena Aarts looks into how birds use the Earth's magnetic field to migrate south, and why it's the subject of key research ...

As summer turns to fall, New Jersey's ruby-throated hummingbirds will head south for the winter. How to track their migration.

This past weekend I was unchained from my desk for a rare opportunity to get out and take some folks birding – in this case ...

TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR AT 530. WARMER TEMPERATURES BRING MORE BIRDS TO WISCONSIN, MIGRATING BACK FROM THE WINTER DOWN SOUTH. WEATHERWATCH 12 METEOROLOGIST JUNEAU RECCHIA TAKES US TO WHERE? NATURE.