The dark, smudgy streaks on Xavi Bou's photographs suggest the jerky ink tracks created by a malfunctioning printer, but they actually record the various patterns birds trace while flying in flocks.

BND photojournalist Derik Holtmann recently captured images of a huge flock of birds flying in unison before sunset near Illinois 4 in Mascoutah. A gigantic flock of birds is a familiar site around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the greatest mysteries in biology is the question of how some animals are able to sense Earth’s magnetic field, and, in ...

Hummingbirds are unique among birds for numerous reasons, and that also includes their backward flying capability. Like ...

A bird has flown non-stop, apparently, from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania. And now this young bar-tailed godwit — a member of the sandpiper family — appears to have set a non-stop ...