There’s more to bird migration patterns than meets the eye. Learn when and how birds migrate and discover which species makes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most birds fly at low altitudes, relatively speaking. But ...

Researchers are unraveling the mystery of how migratory birds achieve their amazing flights Paula Cimprich and Andy Boyce How do you study a species that travels thousands of miles, using a mode of ...

Birds possess an incredible ability to sleep while flying. This allows them to undertake epic migrations spanning continents and oceans. They achieve this through unihemispheric sleep, where one brain ...

Every page of Peter Cavanagh's "100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight," from the preface, where the author begins with “Flight is the essence of bird life. Flying has allowed birds ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most bird species don’t fly above a few thousand feet in ...