Christina Harvey uses wind tunnels at the UC Davis College of Engineering to study bird flight. Harvey is the recipient of a 2023 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. (UC Davis photo) ...

A swirling “bird tornado” over farmland near Torrington turned out to be a flock of European starlings. While a sight to see, ...

Argentavis magnificens was so massive it should’ve stayed grounded. Yet, this giant prehistoric bird still ruled the skies of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most bird species don’t fly above a few thousand feet in ...

The researchers suggest that the difference between the long-haulers and those who landed might be in their feathers; the birds that landed had not molted their wing feathers, whereas those who stayed ...

Slow-motion footage of baby birds helps scientists uncover how their ancestors took to the skies. Birds today make flight look effortless, but its evolution was complex. Scientists are still trying to ...

While it had been assumed that unstable gliding was the key to agility in bird flight, a collaboration between aerospace engineers and biologists has revealed that stability plays a role. While it had ...

It is a busy time for birds in Connecticut. “Whether it’s if the winds blowing from the south, we might be getting some butterflies that are pioneering northwards,” explains Patrick Comins, the ...

Red backed shrikes migrate using a fixed schedule, flying in stages with little variation, showing that genetics guide bird migration.

Thousands of Gannett birds are in the middle of their migration from Canada and other northern areas south towards the Gulf.