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How Birds Grow, From Hatching to Fledgling to Flight

Birds exhibit a wide variety of fascinating nesting and offspring-rearing behaviors throughout their lifecycle. Against the ...
ucdavis.edu

Engineer Studying Bird Flight Awarded Packard Fellowship

Christina Harvey uses wind tunnels at the UC Davis College of Engineering to study bird flight. Harvey is the recipient of a 2023 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. (UC Davis photo) ...
AZ Animals

These Birds Are the Fastest on Earth

There is a lot to consider when judging the speeds of the world’s fastest birds. Speed can be measured in level flight and ...
HUB

Scientists pinpoint growth of brain's cerebellum as key to evolution of bird flight

Evolutionary biologists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report they have combined PET scans of modern pigeons along with studies of dinosaur fossils to help answer an enduring question in biology: How did ...
AZ Animals on MSN

Over 1.2 Billion Birds Tracked in a Single Migration Surge

Discover how a tool similar to NEXRAD weather tracker called BirdCast tracked this massive migration of 1.2 billion birds.
Houston Chronicle

Our Declaration of Independence was signed by feathers. How birds represent our freedom 248 years later

How fitting that our nation's founders used the flight feathers of geese to sign the Declaration of Independence 248 years ago on July 4. Bird flight has long symbolized the freedom to chart one's way ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Fly like a bird in Field Museum's flight simulator

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new attraction at the Field Museum promises to allow you to feel what it's like to fly like a bird, by merging the physical and visual. People have wanted to fly like birds forever.