The night sky teems with migrating songbirds, aloft in their millions following routes etched in evolutionary time. But those flight paths may not be entirely innate, according to research led by the ...

There wasn’t much Red Bull to be found, but make no mistake, Mare Island was the place for everyone to get their wings this weekend. The area at Building 69 became the central hub for the Winged ...

During the whole month of August, only 23 broad-winged hawks were documented by the observation team on the summit of Mount Wachusett. And for the last couple of weeks, conditions for hawk watching ...

Black-winged Monarchs (Monarcha frater) are songbirds that live in the rainforests of New Guinea and northern Australia. They feed on insects and belong to the same bird family, Monarchidae, as ...

Birds are strange. Within their particular species, they tend to all look the same and when they’re flying in groups it’s as though they’ve formed a gestalt controlled by some invisible group ...

Given America’s profusion of cable channels, any nature documentary has a lot of competition. One made for the big screen has to distinguish itself from numerous PBS and Discovery Channel programs ...

It would be easy to dismiss "Winged Migration" as nothing more than an upscale version of the old Disney nature flicks. To be sure, the movie, which follows various birds as they migrate in the fall ...

Evidence from over 18,300 hours of recorded flight calls suggests songbirds may 'talk' to other species as they migrate, forming social connections and -- just maybe -- exchanging information about ...