Researching how bird flight can inform aircraft design is the goal of a new center to be established at the University of California, Davis. Harvey and Hawkins anticipate that by gleaning information ...

Fall migration has begun for birds as temperatures begin to change this weekend. THV11's Brooke Buckner and Rolly Hoyt share ...

Migratory birds flying south provide an impressive example of cooperative behavior that saves power and energy. In the past, it was impossible for scientists to study this phenomenon in a natural ...

Christina Harvey, a University of California, Davis, researcher studying how bird flight can be used to improve aircraft design, has been awarded a 2023 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering ...

While it had been assumed that unstable gliding was the key to agility in bird flight, a collaboration between aerospace engineers and biologists has revealed that stability plays a role. While it had ...

The fascination with bird flight is centuries old, but exactly how birds can be so agile in the air has remained mysterious. A new study, partly supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...

Smithsonian researcher Klara Widrig studies living birds to build 3D models of their ancestors’ anatomies, uncovering how flight evolved Ashley D'Souza Postdoctoral researcher Klara Widrig (standing) ...