More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species ... why a flightless species would "waste" energy growing a bunch of feathers optimized for an activity that it no longer did ...

Condors are capable of flying for over a hundred miles ... allowing the animals to travel and found that the birds flap their wings a whole bunch during take-off but that activity is dramatically ...

In North America alone, billions of birds fly south for the winter, sometimes in enormous undulating flocks. It is one of nature’s great spectacles as well as an athletic feat: Some birds ...

In other cases, birds are stunned by the collision and eventually fly off, but many of those individuals also eventually perish from brain swelling. Other injuries, to wings or legs, for example ...

But even if the great waves of night-flying migrants cannot be seen, they can be detected with a remarkable tool known as Birdcast. Launched in 2018, it was developed by the Cornell Lab of ...

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 ...