Bird or droid? Starlings nail R2-D2 beeps and boops.

When it comes to copying R2-D2, the best bet seems to be small birds with small brains .
Digital Camera World on MSN

Canon’s latest camera brings a cannon to a knife fight – and Sony and Panasonic should be scared stiff

Canon brings 32.5MP stills and 7K open gate video to its best-selling camera line. The EOS R6 Mark III is going to be a BIG ...
Northern Virginia Daily

Through her lens: Woodstock photographer captures birds in flight

After moving to Shenandoah County in 2020, Terry Thiele rekindled her passion for photography, specifically bird photography, ...
Digital Camera World

“I used this old-school exposure trick to make these flamingos look like they were photographed in a studio!”

Learn this simple low-key photography technique for capturing striking shots of wildlife outside on sunny winter days ...
Ars Technica

Bats eat the birds they pluck from the sky while on the wing

There are three species of bats that eat birds. We know that because we have found feathers and other avian remains in their feces. What we didn’t know was how exactly they hunt birds, which are quite ...
Wichita Eagle

Millions of birds are crossing KS each night right now. Look out for these types

Sandhill cranes roost for the night at the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in this October 29, 2017, photo. The cranes may be returning to Kansas this time of year as part of their annual fall ...
Times Union

Cooler October weather and heavy bird migration: What’s happening across New York?

As the season’s first nor’easter drifts further out to sea in the Atlantic, New York’s weather pattern will be cool and quiet the next couple of days. Things may be tranquil at the surface, but the ...
UPI

Billion bird night recorded this week as 1.25B birds flew across U.S.

Autumn bird migration typically peaks in the northern United States in late September and early October. On Wednesday night, around 9:40 p.m. EDT, scientists estimated that 1.25 billion birds were in ...
Houston Chronicle

More than a billion birds just took to the skies. Houston was in the thick of it

Bird migration hit a record high this week, and Southeast Texas was right in the flight path. On the night of Oct. 8, more than 1.25 billion birds were recorded flying south across the U.S., according ...
The New York Times

Bats Catch Migratory Birds and Eat Them in Midair

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

How Europe's largest bat catches and eats birds mid-air

After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe's largest bat doesn't just eat small birds—it hunts and captures them more than a kilometer above the ground. And it eats ...
Wall Street Journal

‘No Ordinary Bird’ Review: Flight and Fall

Artis Henderson had just turned 5 when she settled into her father’s two-seater plane for a pleasure flight above their sprawling North Georgia estate in June 1985. She and her father, Lamar Chester, ...