Bird migration represents one of nature’s most remarkable phenomena, where millions of feathered travelers navigate thousands of miles using nothing but instinct and celestial navigation. This aerial ...
Each year, birds set out on their annual spring migration, traveling to their summer feeding grounds. This time of year is when local birds that went south for the winter return, or when birds that ...
When Logan Parker first sees a male, black-throated blue warbler near his Maine home each spring, two things strike him about the tiny bird – its stunning appearance and the thousands of miles it ...
Red backed shrikes migrate using a fixed schedule, flying in stages with little variation, showing that genetics guide bird migration.
Thousands of birds are expected to take to the skies in coming nights, triggering a migration alert in the Chicago area. According to Birdcast, a website dedicated to tracking migrating birds and ...
Bird migration is ramping up in Michigan, indicating the changing seasons and giving birders a chance to see hundreds of species before winter. Millions of birds are winging their way south across the ...
Millions of birds are flocking southward across Michigan each night amid their annual fall migration, and bird watchers can track their flight live. The BirdCast Migration Dashboard, a live migration ...
Spring’s arrival and warming temperatures will soon bring flocks of people outdoors in Colorado – and feathered friends will follow suit. Seasonal bird migration is about to ramp up, with hundreds of ...
A male blue-winged warbler. Long-distance bird migration is one of the natural world's most inspiring phenomena-but the story of how we know what we know about bird migration is almost as amazing as ...
Migratory birds embody some of the most intricate evolutionary adaptations in the animal kingdom, without which their journeys would be impossible. Here’s how the Pfeilstorch taught us this. In the ...