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 ...

Pickering Creek Audubon Center has installed a MOTUS Wildlife Tracking System at the center as a collaborative effort to help ...

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

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Billions of birds are on the move this fall as migration season reaches its peak across North America. From tiny songbirds to larger waterfowl, the journey south is one of ...

As surely as one season marches into the next, the natural world follows suit and prepares for the changes ahead. When spring arrives, tree leaves unfurl, shoots emerge from the ground, and migrating ...

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 ...

On many evenings during spring and fall migration, tens of millions of birds take flight at sunset and pass over our heads, unseen in the night sky. Though these flights have been recorded for decades ...

After tracking patterns migration, scientists found that bald eagles are operating on a schedule different from their other avian counterparts.

NORTHERN MICHIGAN, (WPBN/WGTU)— As Northern Michigan nears the peak of bird migration season, bird watchers are gearing up for a prime time to observe the return of their favorite spring and summer ...

One summer night three years ago, a chimney swift flitted over the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, where a scraggly-looking antenna sensed a radio frequency pulse given off by a transmitter no ...

The tags emit a signal that is detected by the Motus stations when a bird flies near the station. DNR also expanded the program in 2024 by tagging birds that breed in Iowa, including 27 wood thrushes.