Birds exhibit a wide variety of fascinating nesting and offspring-rearing behaviors throughout their lifecycle. Against the ...

A Dunedin woman’s lifelong love of birds has led her to teach others about the benefits of free flight. Free-flight for a pet bird is not for the timid as the exposure to loss and predators is real.

A researcher at the University of Sheffield has discovered that the reason birds learn to fly so easily is because latent memories may have been left behind by their ancestors. It is widely known that ...

(via BBC Earth) The Northern Bald Ibis is one of the rarest birds in the world. They were hunted to extinction in Europe 300 years ago, but now a daring new project is returning them to the wild.

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 ...

Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found that when birds evolve ...

Young ʻuaʻu kani, or shearwater birds, tend to take their first flights away from their nests between September and December.

Wright holds a nestling Whitehead's broadbill in Borneo, where she now conducts fieldwork studying the biomechanics of how birds learn to fly. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

SAUGERTIES, N.Y. — A female barn owl that suffered a broken wing and two orphaned owlets taught how to be owls by the injured female recently reclaimed their places in the wild, after being given new ...