Some birds migrate thousands of miles every autumn. How exactly do they manage it? Scientists built a flight chamber to find ...

A unique combination of factors makes an area of the Humber Estuary "like a motorway service station" for migrating birds, ...

How do birds cope with the lack of oxygen at high ... the bird of prey did not survive. Other birds that fly high are cranes. They have been spotted at 10,000 meters. Alpine choughs fly up to ...

How do they do it? Not all that differently from ... One or both halves of their brain may be asleep in-flight, allowing the ...

Other birds do this, although not with quite the same precision ... telephone to the local travel agent.” Jack also likes to fly down onto the mirror of the production car when he sees somebody ...

But why do birds go through all that work ... If there’s no outright energy savings to avoiding winter, why fly so far just to turn around a few months later? In one sense, explaining migration ...

Some are cup-shaped, some have domes, others have been likened to apartment complexes. How do birds build their nurseries?

The birds flying highest, furthest and fastest. The birds diving deepest, enduring the harshest conditions. The birds most splendid and most curious. If we look for the champion of champions ...

The flying contraption seats two people—Fritz ... But just like human adolescents, the birds do not always cooperate. This trip was “a little bit stressful because the birds refuse to follow ...

Many fly at night. But for those with sharp eyes ... The flight is about 72 hours, direct, no layovers. For birds that do stopover, humans and their lives can pose a challenge.

These birds are called ‘knots’ and fly together. Where do the pupils think they are going? Why do they fly together? Ask pupils to write a story imagining they are one of the birds in the flock.

After a bad night, volunteers pick up about 20 to 30 injured or dead birds—which Monsma says is likely still an underestimate of the total number of collision victims across the city, since natural ...