Small birds have explored a wide variety of styles of flight, ranging from hovering hummingbirds to bounding sparrows to soaring swifts and swallows. A new Cornell University study could explain why.

Soaring birds—like osprey, eagles, falcons, even vultures—can stay aloft in the air seemingly forever, rarely flapping their wings. They glide along rising air currents in a way that has fascinated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The BirdCast Migration Dashboard, a live migration map provided by Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology, estimates the number ...

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

One of my favorite things about late February is the sound of bird song. It’s a reminder that spring is on the way, and it somehow brightens those late winter mornings even more. Fast forward to this ...

Large clusters appearing on weather radars are likely massive flocks of migrating birds, not storms. A record-breaking 1.2 billion birds were estimated to be migrating in a single night during the ...

Millions of birds are flocking southward across Michigan each night amid their annual fall migration, and bird watchers can track their flight live. The BirdCast Migration Dashboard, a live migration ...