University of California, Davis

Hawk Study Shows Potential Lessons of Bird Flight

Birds have an ability to fly through obstacles by shifting their shape in flight, which is difficult to reproduce in uncrewed ...

Nature’s greatest flight: Migratory bird flies 13,560 km non-stop from Alaska to Australia without landing once for 11 days

A tiny bar-tailed godwit has astounded scientists with a 13,560 km non-stop flight from Alaska to Australia, lasting 11 days.

Migratory bird breaks longest non-stop flight record: How a 'bar-tailed godwit' flew 13,560 km for 11 days

A bar-tailed godwit, a shorebird weighing only a few hundred grams, completed an astonishing non-stop flight of about 13,560 ...
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How hawks slip through tight gaps: A flight stability trick drones could copy

Birds have an ability to fly through obstacles by shifting their shape in flight, which is difficult to reproduce in uncrewed ...

Study reveals new technique to identify individual night-flying birds for the first time

Millions of birds invisibly migrate through the night sky each autumn, most flying in near silence toward their wintering ...
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Millions of birds are taking flight over Michigan. How to track the fall migration

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 ...
PBS

How Birds Evolved to Fly (feat. Slow-Mo Baby Birds)

Slow-motion footage of baby birds helps scientists uncover how their ancestors took to the skies. Birds today make flight look effortless, but its evolution was complex. Scientists are still trying to ...