Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Using feathers or wings for flight is trickier than you can imagine. Biologist turned ...

June 4 (UPI) --Scientists are finally beginning to understand how and why birds flock. In a new study, published Tuesday in the journal Evolutionary Biology, scientists analyzed the flocking mechanics ...

Hypotheses explaining the use of intermittent bounding and undulating flight modes in birds are considered. Existing theoretical models of intermittent flight have assumed that the animal flies at a ...

Birds have been found to fly in a V formation to synchronize their wingbeats and optimize the aerodynamic lift they can get from upwash, the upward flow of air at the front edge of a wing. Using ...

Video: More than a QUARTER of UK bird species are now under threat: Swifts, House Martins and Greenfinches are added to the UK Red List as experts warn urgent action is needed to conserve them This is ...

If you have ever watched a bird land on a tree branch, you may have noticed that it rapidly pitches its wings upward at a high angle to execute a smooth landing. However, for some birds, they land by ...

Researchers using custom-built GPS and accelerometer loggers, developed with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, (EPSRC), and attached to free-flying birds on ...

Cornell University has helped design a website that can identify common North American bird species. The “V” formation shows the keen knowledge of aerodynamics that birds possess. Reuters The familiar ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. New York: Birds of a feather may flock together, but why they fly together in V formations has never been known for certain. Now, with ...

The colour of a bird's fathers may impact its flying ability. According to scientists at Belgium's University of Ghent, animals with darker hues are more aerodynamic because of how the deep shade uses ...