Birds tend to fly into wind turbines by mistake. There are a few reasons for this. One major reason why birds cannot easily spot wind turbines is that the long, rotating blades create a misleading ...

Francois-Xavier Lalanne did not make many marble birds. The artist is known for his sheep-shaped chairs, his rhinoceros desk, a bird bed — a functional menagerie of thoughtfully engineered, often ...

For years, birds treated offshore wind farms like obstacles in the sky. Long rows of blades stretching across migration routes. Most researchers assumed birds would avoid them whenever possible, and ...

Meet Beauregard, a green aracari bird from the Birmingham Zoo. Though much smaller, aracaris belong to the same bird family as the iconic toucan. Using the same materials commonly used for dental ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

As we get further into spring, you're likely to see more pops of color from birds in your backyard, and a Concord family business has been helping flying residents for decades."In here, we pretty much ...

My dad was never home for holiday meals, because restauranting was the family biz. If we saw him at all, it consisted of an early pop-in at Aunt Julia’s during which there would be scattered greetings ...

When two bald eagles built a nest in Philadelphia in 2007, it was the first time one had been recorded in the area in 200 years. But scientists are again worried about the eagles’ future. Although a ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, the skies of South America were ruled by a colossal bird. Argentavis magnificens, one of the largest flying birds ever discovered, had a wingspan so wide that it ...

There's an unwritten rule in publishing, or so I've been told: Don't write about COVID. Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners ...

ATLANTA — As autumn begins, Georgia skies become a busy highway for millions of migrating birds, heading south. Dr. Benjamin Freeman, a biologist at the Georgia Tech School of Biological Sciences, ...