According to bird experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman, much about bird flying is dependent on the species, season, and what else the bird is doing. Songbirds that feed on insects vary in the elevation ...

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It’s been a big week for birds. BirdCast—a migration forecasting tool operated by Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology—tracked a whopping 1.8 million birds passing over DC on ...

When wood thrushes arrive in northern Mississippi on their spring migration and begin to serenade my neighborhood with their ethereal, harmonized song, it’s one of the great joys of the season. It’s ...

As the weather gets chillier, birds are migrating, many crossing New Hampshire on their path to warmer climates. Hundreds of thousands of birds — warblers, tanagers, sandpipers, sparrows, hawks, even ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee is in the peak of bird migration, according to experts. In fact, the current weather conditions are causing the number of birds flying north to explode. Laura Cook, ...

If you are anything like me, it's easy to find yourself standing at a window captivated by birds at a feeder or flying around among the trees. We have robins, cardinals, eastern bluebirds, blue jays, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most birds fly at low altitudes, relatively speaking. But ...

The Vaux's Swift is a tiny bird – some people call it "a cigar with wings." But every fall these little birds make a big trip, from summer breeding grounds in the Pacific Northwest down to their ...

The skies over Indiana are packed with birds right now. We’ve entered the peak three weeks of fall bird migration, when hundreds of millions of birds move south each night. If you’ve noticed more ...