For the past three months the chatter of the Arctic Tern colony has served as the soundtrack of the summer breeding season.

Aside from being a delight to watch, flight in birds is regarded by many cultures as a symbol of freedom, and a source of ...

How did the ostrich cross the ocean? It may sound like a joke, but scientists have long been puzzled by how the family of ...

Researchers are gathering new insights that improve migration science and may help make offshore wind energy more friendly to ...

The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.

Scientists discovered that ostrich ancestors could fly across oceans. Later, they lost flight and adapted on land.

The merlin, sandhill crane, and pileated woodpecker were once rare in North America. Environmental conservation fueled their ...

Striking nurses from Butler Hospital found a new way to provide care by volunteering at a wild bird sanctuary. The connection ...

John Bird, Ph.D., and Afroza Shirin, Ph.D., stand with a model aircraft used in their research on soaring. With a new grant from DARPA, the two are using insights from bird flight to develop uncrewed ...

Two baby pterosaur fossils contain rare evidence of how they died 150 million years ago — and the specimens solve a larger ...

It was early May, and Bleu, an Indian ringneck, was out of her cage, as usual. In the chaos of moving day, she flew down the ...