Birds can be wonderful pets if raised and handled correctly. There are many types of house birds, but not every bird is ...

Northern cardinals, blue jays, American robins, and house sparrows are common birds throughout city life. These small, ...

This has long been thought to be the key to birds’ stability ... “Now we know the recipe of how to fly without a vertical tail. Vertical tails, even for a passenger aircraft, are just a ...

Unfortunately, a vertical tail ... birds do.” Lentink led the study aimed at better understanding birds’ rudderless flight mechanics. Birds flight involves near-constant turbulence—“When ...

A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 13,560 ... the only bird to travel extremely long distances. Last year, a rare ...

Between them, flying in a perfect V formation, were 35 bald ibises: large, black, striking-looking birds with long beaks and halo ... can leap with a flick of its tail. Watch a particularly ...

Such behavior is widespread in other animals too, particularly birds. In our recent study we explored why long-tailed tits, one of the UK's tiniest bird species, often act as foster parents ...

ROAD TO RECOVERY WILL BE A LONG ONE ... AND TAIL OF THIS RED TAILED HAWK ARE ALL GONE, MEANING IT COULD NOT SURVIVE IN THE WILD. THIS BIRD WOULD BE RENDERED UNABLE TO FLY. IT WOULD JUST BE ...

It had feathers and wings, so it was clearly a bird — but it sported a long tail and sharp claws, which seemed reptilian. A smattering of other feathery Jurassic fossils, including those known ...