Van Doren plans to explore the mechanisms of vagrancy and how that process might feed into the evolutionary establishment of new migration routes. In the meantime, he’s urging other ornithologists to ...

CU Boulder researchers challenge long-held assumptions about the relationship between bird migration and the process by which new species arise Every year, billions of birds take to the skies, riding ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bay-breasted warbler weighs about the same as four pennies, but twice a year makes an extraordinary journey. The tiny songbird flies nearly 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) between ...

Many birds make incredible journeys each year. Billions fly thousands of miles — some nonstop. These ancient migration routes are getting scrambled, and as the Guardian reported, it's a flashing red ...

When it comes to what birds have and what humans don’t, your mind might first land on the ability to fly. However, birds are also pretty good at navigating from the air… assuming, that is, they know ...

Millions of birds pass through and above the Champaign-Urbana area on their way to warmer southern regions during the fall and winter migration period. At its peak, migratory numbers over C-U are in ...

PARIS -- A bird flu strain found in Europe represents a major threat to the poultry industry in countries crossed by migrating wild birds, two intergovernmental organizations say. Germany, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bird migration represents one of nature’s most remarkable phenomena, where millions of feathered travelers navigate thousands of ...

On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly, ethereal bird song floating, flute-like, through the canyon. The hikers identified the ...

A Blackpoll Warbler on Southeast Farallon Island in California is one example of the many birds that wind up as vagrants - well outside their normal range. A new study from the University of Illinois, ...