By copying how migrating birds fly together, Airbus believes airlines could unlock fuel savings on long-haul routes—without changing the planes themselves.

A swirling “bird tornado” over farmland near Torrington turned out to be a flock of European starlings. While a sight to see, ...

Crew members of flight 2026 reported a bird strike not long after the flight took off from the Sacramento airport, Alaska ...

Christina Harvey uses wind tunnels at the UC Davis College of Engineering to study bird flight. Harvey is the recipient of a 2023 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. (UC Davis photo) ...

Two recent bird strike incidents involving IndiGo and Air India flights raise concerns over aviation safety in India, with ...

An IndiGo flight from Kolkata to Hyderabad's Shamshabad airport suffered a bird hit on Monday, but the pilot landed the ...

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 ...

Slow-motion footage of baby birds helps scientists uncover how their ancestors took to the skies. Birds today make flight look effortless, but its evolution was complex. Scientists are still trying to ...

The researchers suggest that the difference between the long-haulers and those who landed might be in their feathers; the birds that landed had not molted their wing feathers, whereas those who stayed ...

Red backed shrikes migrate using a fixed schedule, flying in stages with little variation, showing that genetics guide bird migration.

Thousands of Gannett birds are in the middle of their migration from Canada and other northern areas south towards the Gulf.