Water birds take flyways along coastlines and rivers, while land birds and raptors typically fly inland. If you keep your eye out, you can quickly come to recognize which birds hang around your ...

The massive annual spring migration of America's birds – millions of them – is underway. Here's how to follow along at home.

Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings. Birds are found worldwide and ...

The word migration describes how birds fly thousands of miles at different times of the year to find food and stay warm. Even tiny birds fly halfway across the world. The Arctic Tern flies over ...

Frigatebirds can remain in the air for months at a time by taking advantage of air currents and tropical cloud formations. If there were an endurance record for bird species, the little-known ...

Birds have feathers and a beak and lay hard-shelled eggs. Many birds are able to fly using their wings, but others such as ostriches are flightless and unable to fly. Some birds like penguins ...

About 20 birds suspected of bird fly have turned up on an East Patchogue beach on the Great South Bay, reports said. “They were everywhere, dead in the water, floating by the shore ...

In a new study in the journal Evolution, researchers compared the feathers and bodies of different species of flightless birds and their closest relatives who can still fly. They were able to ...