The dark, smudgy streaks on Xavi Bou's photographs suggest the jerky ink tracks created by a malfunctioning printer, but they actually record the various patterns birds trace while flying in flocks.

Image via Getty Images No, that's not a weather pattern. It's a flock of bird moving in a strange way. In Wyoming, residents ...

Red backed shrikes migrate using a fixed schedule, flying in stages with little variation, showing that genetics guide bird ...

“Awkward” would probably be the most benevolent word I could use to describe the explosive launch into flight of the California quail. Certainly, the words graceful or athletic do not come to mind. A ...

Birds rely on natural timing patterns for survival and breeding. Climate change and urbanization disrupt these rhythms.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most bird species don’t fly above a few thousand feet in ...

Some birds stay aloft for astonishing lengths of time, using clever sleep habits to survive long flights. These remarkable species show how migration can push creatures to extraordinary limits.

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 ...

A rare set of 160-million-year-old dinosaur fossils is reshaping scientists’ understanding of how flight evolved among ...

“Awkward” would probably be the most benevolent word I could use to describe the explosive launch into flight of the California quail. Certainly, the words graceful or athletic do not come to mind.