Every year, billions of birds around the world take to the skies for their annual migration. It’s truly astonishing as these ...

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 ...

Remember when you were a kid and you looked up at the sky to see dozens of geese soaring overhead in a V shape? "Why do they do that?" you probably wondered. Seeing birds — from geese to pelicans and ...

Coloradans are being asked to dim their lights to aid the millions of birds flying over the state each night amid the annual ...

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 ...

There is a curiosity about birds that can usually be explained. Here are some questions I've been receiving about our feathered friends. Question: “Can birds fly upside down?” Answer: While birds may ...