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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Peak migration season saw nearly 2 million birds fly over New York Tuesday night, said the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, N.Y., but authorities stressed that light ...
"For whichever combination of two birds we looked at, we saw that the time bird A was flying in front of bird B matched closely the time bird B was flying in front of bird A," the study’s lead ...
Birds have been flying for around 150 million years, so it's no surprise they're better at flying than drones. With any luck, more research studying their natural reactions will provide a ...
Frigate birds, which can stay aloft for months at a time, ... For a super boost, sometimes the birds will fly inside a cloud, where the upward drafts lift them 13 to 16 feet per second.
In a rectangular room draped in camouflage netting, four Harris’s hawks took turns flying back and forth between grass-covered perches while scientists recorded their every biomechanical flutter ...
And the flying V configuration, the authors find, helps birds to do that. Previously, scientists suspected that birds formed a V in flight because the shape allowed some of them to burn less energy.