Every page of Peter Cavanagh's "100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight," from the preface, where the author begins with “Flight is the essence of bird life. Flying has allowed birds ...

If a camera is your birding tool of choice or is a consideration, here is a book focused sharply on you. Few tips can be offered for binoculars beyond don't drop them. Cameras are a bird of a ...

It hasn't been a great year for birds, from the ongoing avian influenza crisis to other more subtle changes such as shifts in insect and fish availability resulting in smaller clutches and offspring.

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. The ...

Every autumn, billions of birds leave their breeding areas when the temperature drops and food gets scarce to spend the winter in more favorable climes, returning the following spring when warm ...

Nearly 1,000 birds died late last week after flying into a Chicago convention center during their migratory journey south. 964 birds crashed into McCormick Place Lakeside Center, a mostly glass ...