Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...

Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings. Birds are found worldwide and ...

Besides bats, birds are the only living vertebrates capable of powered flight. So, what features help them to do this? Traits required for flight, such as wings, a lightweight skeleton and flight ...

The “chicken hawk” of colonial America, this medium-sized accipiter is a common sight at home bird feeders across the country ... also the relatively short wings and flat-topped head are ...

Although it’s not uncommon for birds to communicate with each other by flapping their wings to make a desired noise, this was a particularly fascinating discovery because the two subspecies are in the ...

HYDERABAD: The 17th Wings Bird Race attracted 40 persons, including nine young birders, reflecting the growing interest in birdwatching. A rare sighting of the Malabar whistling thrush added ...