Bird migration is a fascinating and mysterious behavior. While it makes sense for birds to head off to warmer climates with more plentiful food, how do they know where to go? It’s a great question and ...

Across the Northern Hemisphere, satellite tags and backyard observations are revealing a surprising pattern: some birds are ...

It must be some kind of magic, because how on earth can a creature that weighs less than a banana fly thousands of miles one-way and find the same exact tree it nested in last year? Literally! As a ...

To navigate the skies, birds rely on a complex sensory tool kit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Birds have an arsenal of senses ...

Red backed shrikes migrate using a fixed schedule, flying in stages with little variation, showing that genetics guide bird migration.

Michigan's native birds are arriving for the summer from near and far, but you might not notice as many travel at night. "The movements are massive," said Andrew Farnsworth, a migration ecologist at ...

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 ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The Buckeye State is currently seeing it’s peak bird migration season, as millions of birds fly over or to the state every single day and night. These birds travel thousands of ...

Spring migrations runs between March 1 and June 15. Fall migration runs between August 1 and November 30. Peak spring migration is in May in NH The spring birds are on their way back. Warblers, osprey ...

We are in the height of the fall migration season. Hundreds of millions of birds are taking to the skies every evening. They fly south through the night, navigating with the help of the moon and the ...

The impact of climate change is not lost on humans, but how are our feathered friends navigating these fluctuations? "There's this very close relationship between where birds are when on the planet ...

Many of North America's migratory birds are declining, but the mysteries about when and how birds migrate must to be solved to effectively protect them. A new paper in The Auk: Ornithological Advances ...