Birds are on the move as they take flight for their annual spring migration and Cornell University is looking to help people ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most birds fly at low altitudes, relatively speaking. But ...

According to bird experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman, much about bird flying is dependent on the species, season, and what else the bird is doing. Songbirds that feed on insects vary in the elevation ...

Remember when you were a kid and you looked up at the sky to see dozens of geese soaring overhead in a V shape? "Why do they do that?" you probably wondered. Seeing birds — from geese to pelicans and ...

Every year a small songbird, no heavier than a letter, crosses the Sahara Desert, the Mediterranean and the Arabian Desert on ...

When wood thrushes arrive in northern Mississippi on their spring migration and begin to serenade my neighborhood with their ethereal, harmonized song, it’s one of the great joys of the season. It’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Frigatebirds can remain airborne for days at a time without ...

There exists a strange and unnerving phenomenon that one of our news producers experienced this morning, that feels like it could be an omen for... something. He awoke to the sound of banging from ...