No food, sleep: How migratory birds fly for days non-stop

Birds like godwits temporarily shrink parts of their body, which frees up space and energy, making them lighter and more ...

Study reveals new technique to identify individual night-flying birds for the first time

Millions of birds invisibly migrate through the night sky each autumn, most flying in near silence toward their wintering ...
University of California, Davis

Hawk Study Shows Potential Lessons of Bird Flight

Birds have an ability to fly through obstacles by shifting their shape in flight, which is difficult to reproduce in uncrewed ...

This Tiny Bird’s Heart Beats 1,200 Times a Minute — And It Can Fly Backward

Hummingbirds are fascinating little birds found all over the Americas. They are known for their beautiful colors, aerial ...
University of California, Davis

Bird Flight Research Advances Drone Technology and Wild Raptor Care

UC Davis’ new Center for Animal Flight and Innovation studies raptor flight. Researchers use high-speed cameras to improve drone technology and help injured birds.
WUWM

Chirp Chat: How you can protect migrating birds from flying into windows

Believe it or not, fall migration is already underway. But it’s a harrowing journey back north for the hundreds of bird species that will fly through Wisconsin. Window collisions are a leading cause ...
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New Mexico Tech turns taxidermied birds into drones

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – After years of trying to replicate how birds fly, Dr. Mostafa Hassanalian figured he could borrow some blueprints from Mother Nature. “We thought that maybe it’s good idea to use ...