Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...

It usually starts with a quiet morning walk, a child’s curious shriek, or a pet tugging insistently at a bush in the backyard ...

researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology published an automated system that uses machine learning to detect and identify nocturnal flight calls. These are species-specific calls that birds ...

In 1960, an Eastern Airlines flight leaving Logan Airport went down in Boston ... As with most detective work, identifying birds is both art and science. Largely intact samples can often be matched to ...

Job: He learned to identify most of the calls he would hear ... start getting a representative sample of the population of birds in flight on the northbound migration, on the southbound migration ...

has announced a new gadget that can accurately identify hundreds of different species of hummingbirds, even while they are in flight. Franci Zidar, the CEO and co-founder of Bird Buddy ...

Looking at and listening to birds is very enjoyable and for some, that’s enough. Others may want to take it up a notch and learn how to identify them. There are many books to help you ...

Today, there are 60% more people logging their lists on the bird identification app eBird. The number of participants in the Great Backyard Bird Count has more than doubled. This adds up to more ...

“How to Look at a Bird” by Clare Walker Leslie ... Leslie highlights key identification clues such as beak shape, coloring, flight patterns and behavior. She encourages readers to follow ...

These birds weren’t using human speech, of course. Instead, it was I who was using human phrases and words, or mnemonics, to identify the creatures by their songs. Birders, in fact, have ...

The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual citizen-science project that gathers data about wild birds. Participants go outside for at least 15 minutes and identify as many birds as they can.