Migratory birds change how high they fly over deserts and seas. Wing shape, feather color, and heat all play a role in ...

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 ...

Every year, billions of birds undertake extraordinary migrations, crossing vast deserts and open seas with no place to stop, ...

Long distance migratory birds are declining. The findings, therefore, will have implications for wind energy development in ...

The bar-headed goose, which lives in Kazakhstan and India, flies over the Himalayas at an altitude of 8,500 meters near Everest, the highest mountain in the world. Nautilus, a scientific media, ...

All birds fly high in the sky, soaring to new heights in search of a home and food. However, while some are always visible to us-- like pigeons and crows-- others do not even catch the human eye as ...

Many birds fly, but some, like penguins and ostriches, don't, revealing an evolutionary twist. Flightless birds adapted to land or water when survival didn't require flying. Lacking a keel, crucial ...