As days grow shorter, millions of birds across North America prepare for one of nature’s great events: the autumn migration to warm winter climes. Many species fly for thousands of miles, often ...

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 ...

Scientists have identified the largest flying bird ever found—an ungainly glider with a wingspan of 21 feet or more that likely soared above ancient seas 25 million years ago.

According to Bird Spot, the fastest bird on land is an ostrich, known for running 43 miles an hour. To escape from land predators like lions, hyenas and cheetahs, ostriches run on foot.

“It was always assumed that V-formation flight was learned from the adult birds,” says Portugal. “But these guys are all the same age and they learned to fly from a human in a microlight.

Maybe these can solve the problem of birds flying into windmills and getting smashed and concentrated solar collectors and getting fried. Ramesh Chouhan September 2, 2014 04:12 PM.

In a rectangular room draped in camouflage netting, four Harris’s hawks took turns flying back and forth between grass-covered perches while scientists recorded their every biomechanical flutter ...

She showed that even when island birds can still fly, they’re edging towards flightlessness. Compared to mainland relatives, their flight muscles (the ones we eat when we tuck into chicken ...