There are two different ways to measure flight speed: level flight, meaning the speed it takes to fly in a straight line, and diving flight, meaning the speed at which the bird plunges down to kill ...

The barn swallows are back, but for how long? asks Norfolk Wildlife Trust conservation officer Robert Morgan. There can be few birds, with the exception of the skylark or nightingale, that have ...

Swallow feeding fledgling in mid-air (Image: Jon Hawkins RSWT) Swallows are summer visitors. Arriving back with us from ...

Younger sister Gizmo looked on in astonishment as Sunny took to the sky over Big Bear Lake for the first time on Monday ...

There are more than 10,000 bird species worldwide. Some, like the tiny bumblebee hummingbird, are incredibly small. Others, like the common ostrich, are flightless. When focusing on birds that can fly ...

In the case of flightless birds, the biggest isn’t always the most terrifying. It is the third-biggest flightless bird that ...

Volunteers, along with Yoerger, set up recording devices on their properties to pick up the calls while the birds fly overhead. “It's really allowing us to document those species that would ...

The Skylark is one of ... it was one of the first birds to sing in the morning and the air would be full of its long twittering song. It usually sings while flying ever higher in the air until ...

In fact, the current weather conditions are causing the number of birds flying north to explode. Laura Cook, bird research coordinator at Warner Parks Nature Center, told News 2 that the strong ...

Freeman devotes his research time to studying bird species. This week could be a jackpot for birders in Georgia, as an estimated 10 million will fly every night over the state. When they aren't ...