Tiny radio transmitters, some no bigger than a pencil eraser, are quietly rewriting what scientists thought they knew about ...

Twice yearly, billions of birds migrate, but recent observations have uncovered a startling discovery: Storks are skipping migration and staying in Iğdir, Turkey, during the winter. As temperatures ...

On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly, ethereal bird song floating, flute-like, through the canyon. The hikers identified the ...

Millions of birds pass through and above the Champaign-Urbana area on their way to warmer southern regions during the fall and winter migration period. At its peak, migratory numbers over C-U are in ...

When it comes to what birds have and what humans don’t, your mind might first land on the ability to fly. However, birds are also pretty good at navigating from the air… assuming, that is, they know ...

Migratory birds face new challenges as climate change alters their ancient journeys. Rising temperatures and unpredictable ...

Several high- and medium-voltage power lines within the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (DDBR) have been fitted with bird warning devices, and 100 medium-voltage poles identified as hazardous to birds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bird migration represents one of nature’s most remarkable phenomena, where millions of feathered travelers navigate thousands of ...

A Blackpoll Warbler on Southeast Farallon Island in California is one example of the many birds that wind up as vagrants - well outside their normal range. A new study from the University of Illinois, ...

Van Doren plans to explore the mechanisms of vagrancy and how that process might feed into the evolutionary establishment of new migration routes. In the meantime, he’s urging other ornithologists to ...