Their small size and blazing metabolism mean they live life on a knife-edge, sometimes needing to shut down their bodies ...

How Do Birds Migrate? Autumn is migration season. All over North America and beyond, hundreds of millions of birds are on the move, traveling from their breeding grounds to their wintering grounds.

What a treat to view her phone-recorded encounter with this loud, massive air-to-ground adventure. Her enthusiasm was a reminder of the awe that attends some of nature’s grandest scenes. Though ...

They are gregarious by nature and form flocks, often with other small wading birds such as Ringed Plovers, Dunlins and Turnstones.

Cook would drive west to San Francisco, where he and his wife, Donna, lived the other half of the year. Come April, he’d return, as would the birds. “I like being back here with the eagles,” he said.

Scientists used ultra-light sensors connected “like cell phones” across Europe to study how bats migrate over the continent. Birds may dominate the skies when it comes to long-distance travel, but ...

While birds are often recognised as the primary long-haul fliers, certain bat species also undertake impressive migrations, ...

Novel sensors have shown how bats zigzag across Europe as they migrate, surfing on storm fronts to fly further with less ...

Birds are the undisputed champions of epic travel, but they are not the only long-haul fliers. A handful of bats are known to ...

By Stephen Beech Bats are "riders on the storm" when they migrate thousands of miles across continents, reveals new research.

Now, scientists have equipped bats with lightweight sensors that decode their long-distance travel strategies. These tiny ...