Every spring and fall, in North America, weather radar captures something besides the actual weather. As large flocks of ...

Those "storm" clusters showing up on your weather radar this weekend probably shouldn't worry you — because they're likely not storms at all. They’re birds. Yes, a heck of a lot of birds. Radar ...

Swift bird in flight with a colorful sky in background. Black swallow. Image with copy space.© Marco Lissoni/Shutterstock.com Look up at the sky—what do you see? During the day, it’s a vast expanse of ...

During hurricane season, many people track the path of each storm using the National Weather Service’s Doppler radar or other weather radar systems. After Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big ...

MICHIGAN, USA — The first signs of spring are showing up across West Michigan. Flowers blooming, grass greening and birds coming back home. Birds have been migrating in very large numbers over the ...

Birds including swallows and martins—known as aerial insectivores—control insect populations and insect-borne disease and provide hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of pest control for agriculture ...

Spring bird migration is so smokin’ hot right now that their massive numbers show up on our local weather radar. In mid-May, perhaps hundreds of thousands of birds pass over our region as we sleep ...