From geese and pelicans to cranes and cormorants, many birds use a V-shaped flock to master the aerodynamics of long-distance ...

If you’ve ever heard a bird and wondered what it was, the free Merlin Bird ID app for iPhone offers one of the easiest ways ...

When birds or insects fly, they displace air with their wings – that is how it works. Maybe sometime at night you have disturbed an owl and heard the flap of its large wings. This sound is a frequency ...

Although it still feels like beach weather across much of North America, billions of birds have started taking wing for one of nature’s great spectacles: fall migration. Birds fly south from the ...

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 evolve ...