yet no manufactured device matches the graceful movements and mechanics of bird wings. It’s easy to marvel at the magic of a bird in flight, but understanding how it all works makes the process ...

The smallest is the two-inch-long bee hummingbird. Everything about the anatomy of a bird reflects its ability to fly. The wings, for example, are shaped to create lift. The leading edge is ...

Bird wings act as a suspension system that rejects gusts In collaborative work with Prof Richard Bomphrey at the Royal Veterinary College, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, we have ...

Plein air painting and a photography contest in a southern Indiana national wildlife refuge will be among the featured events ...

A sighting of a ruby-throated hummingbird was reported Wednesday, April 16, at a Cortlandt Manor bird feeder in northern ...

You can see the physics of how this works by going outside and watching a bird fly. Scientists have been studying how the wings of a bird create lift for literally thousands of years. Many species ...

While the airliner of the 2030s might still look like the boring old cylinder-and-wings template that appeared in the 1930s, it can still benefit from remarkable innovations. Future Airliner The ...

The Sinharaja rainforest’s ‘Mixed Species Feeding Bird Flocks’ is a unique spectacle that can also be promoted as a tourist attraction, a leading zoologist said recently. Addressing a gathering of ...