If one were to do an informal survey of the constellations, you might get the distinct impression that the night sky was truly for the birds. There is a swan, an eagle, a dove, a crane, a toucan, a ...

GLYNDON, Minn. — When one's passion involves scanning the heavens for distant objects in the name of science or a hobby, a dark night sky is a must. Matt Craig has spent many an evening doing just ...

Security footage shows how a flock of birds drop dead mid-flight in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua. Sectional police of Alvaro Obregon reported that close to 100 yellow-headed blackbirds that ...

Every spring and fall, something extraordinary happens in the sky. Without most people ever noticing, billions of birds take flight under cover of darkness. These nocturnal travelers are mostly small ...

A moment of tranquility between a woman and her dog was cruelly interrupted recently when a bird dropped out of the sky and died right in front of them. The TikTok video was posted by Isabel Klee in ...

Humans have a complicated relationship with the night. We schedule most of our important tasks in the daylight hours, reserving the darkness for rest, relaxation, and, on clear nights, wonder. For ...

Ornithologists at the Natural History Museum and UCLA are studying how smoke from the January wildfires will affect the region’s birds. It’s part of a broader scientific effort to understand the ...

Moving‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ long distances through migration is a hard task that often pushes the animals' physiological limits. However, the case of birds that can sleep while flying is probably the most ...