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It's a study in the sky that's more than meets the eye! Here's how a field biologist at Black Swamp Bird Observatory is using ...

Read all the way to the end – we save the one detail most people never think about for last. The vast, open skies serve as both highway and bedroom for certain remarkable bird species. While humans ...

The Marabou stork, sometimes called the undertaker bird, lives in wet and arid areas south of the Saharan Desert. This bird that typically lives near landfills weighs up to 17 pounds. This black bird ...

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 ...

The ability of flight sets birds apart from many other creatures. While insects, bats, and even some gliding squirrels and fish can take flight into the air, none of them can match the speed, agility, ...

Most people have wondered, at some point, what it might feel like to lift off the ground and fly. Birds do exactly that every day, often for no obvious reason. Whether birds take real pleasure in ...

Why do some birds fly in a V? Most people would say that they do it to save energy, which would be right. But it turns out that birds in a V are actually pulling off a feat that’s more complicated and ...

As a kid, Jorg Massen would watch birds swoop and swirl overhead and wonder whether they were doing it for enjoyment. Massen is now a behavioral biologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and ...