You may have noticed that almost every species of passerine bird has a particular method of flying. Woodpeckers (including ...

ROAD TO RECOVERY WILL BE A LONG ONE. WHEN I FIRST HELD THE BIRD, I NOTICED THAT EVERY SINGLE FEATHER ON BOTH ITS WINGS AND TAILS WERE COMPLETELY SHEARED AND LOOKED TO BE INTENTIONALLY CUT OFF. TAKE A ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a new study in the journal Evolution, researchers ...

How Birds Fly: The Science and Art of Avian Flight by Peter Cavanagh (Firefly Books, 2024).

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not. The ...