As millions of migratory birds pass through Chicago each spring, volunteers race to rescue injured birds and document deadly ...

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 ...

Flight is truly remarkable, no matter which way you look at it. And while it seems easy enough for the tiniest insects to ...

Michigan could see more than 6.7 million birds fly overhead Thursday night, May 21, amid spring migration.

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 ...

For many of us, the sound of a bird crashing into a nearby window might be an unfortunately common occurrence. As unpleasant as it is to think about, hundreds of millions of birds die annually due to ...

Michigan could see more than 12.1 million birds fly overhead Monday night, May 18, amid spring bird migration.

There exists a strange and unnerving phenomenon that one of our news producers experienced this morning, that feels like it could be an omen for... something. He awoke to the sound of banging from ...