Have you ever looked up at the sky just before a hurricane and noticed birds swirling and swooping in ways that seem almost ...

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The natural marvels, which do everything from enabling acrobatic flight to insulating against Antarctic cold, continue to ...

“These developments,” says Wells, “have placed this field at a new threshold.” Most birds migrate at night. The stars and the moon aid night-flying birds’ navigation. Free of daytime thermals, the ...

The ostrich is the largest bird in the world– and that’s exactly why it can’t fly. Weighing over 100 kg, its body is just too heavy to take off. Its wings are far too small to lift its ...

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two pigeons sneaked aboard a Delta Air Lines plane, delaying the flight twice. The airline confirmed that the pigeons got aboard a flight Saturday that was leaving Minneapolis ...

Ecologists have long assumed that the world's bird species were best equipped to respond to the pressures of climate change simply because they have the option of flying to higher altitudes or ...