This Bird Can Fly for Months Without Landing

Swifts practically live in the sky. These birds skip land for nearly a year, doing everything midair, from eating to sleeping ...
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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 ...
Hawai‘i Public Radio

Oʻahu residents urged to look out for fallen shearwater birds

Young ʻuaʻu kani, or shearwater birds, tend to take their first flights away from their nests between September and December.
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Tiny Indian falcon’s marathon 1,000 km flight in a single day amazes scientists

Sahu added that these small birds, weighing just 150 grams, continue to remind us of the wonders of migration, from the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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.