Birds may not always take the flight path that physics suggests is the perfect landing, at the safest and lowest possible ...

Four million tracked bird movements at a German coastal wind farm show over 99 percent avoided the spinning rotors, even on ...

Researching how bird flight can inform aircraft design is the goal of a new center to be established at the University of California, Davis. Harvey and Hawkins anticipate that by gleaning information ...

People have been fascinated by bird flight for centuries, but exactly how birds can be so agile in the air remains mysterious. A new study, published the week of Sept. 5 in Proceedings of the National ...

In an innovative step towards wildlife management, researchers have created the RobotFalcon, a robotic tool aimed at ...

Researchers report for the first time that soaring birds use their lungs to enhance their flying in a way that has evolved over time. Soaring birds—like osprey, eagles, falcons, even vultures—can stay ...

Modern birds capable of flight all have a specialized wing structure called the propatagium without which they could not fly. The evolutionary origin of this structure has remained a mystery, but new ...