While sitting on my back porch one day during late afternoon, my leisurely pursuit was interrupted as a large and seemingly nervous flock of red-winged blackbirds happened to fly by my location. The ...

Each year, birds set out on their annual spring migration, traveling to their summer feeding grounds. This time of year is when local birds that went south for the winter return, or when birds that ...

For as long as I’ve been birding, it has been common wisdom that there are diurnal (daytime) and nocturnal migrants. Examples of diurnal migrants include hummingbirds and swallows — it’s hard to ...

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering ...

Michigan's native birds are arriving for the summer from near and far, but you might not notice as many travel at night. "The movements are massive," said Andrew Farnsworth, a migration ecologist at ...

Researchers are unraveling the mystery of how migratory birds achieve their amazing flights Paula Cimprich and Andy Boyce How do you study a species that travels thousands of miles, using a mode of ...

Pictured from left are Mississippi State Associate Research Professor Mark Woodrey, Research Associate II Tim Guida, doctoral student Jacob Wessels, Associate Professor Ray Iglay, Research Associate I ...