Dakin is trying to figure out how the birds control their flight. Previous researchers theorized that flying animals have a cruise control circuit in their brains to balance movement across their ...

Every year during migration, billions of birds are killed by colliding into buildings due to the bright lights in developed ...

Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying look almost effortless.

But nature has other ideas. Birds achieve flight control through complex, coordinated movements where different body parts can affect multiple degrees of freedom simultaneously. Now, researchers ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a study in the journal Evolution, researchers ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Indoor public spaces with lofty ceilings and perch-able rafters like big-box stores can be bird-friendly environments. But with Avian Influenza A (H5N1) in the news, the ...