A male blue-winged warbler. Long-distance bird migration is one of the natural world's most inspiring phenomena-but the story of how we know what we know about bird migration is almost as amazing as ...

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 ...

The birds are on the move. In flocks so think they look like a "storm" cluster on your weather radar, the birds are moving for their annual fall migration. Most of the migration is concentrated in the ...

Bird migration is ramping up in Michigan, indicating the changing seasons and giving birders a chance to see hundreds of species before winter. Millions of birds are winging their way south across the ...

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 ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology welcomes the Ithaca community on Saturday, Sept. 13 for its annual Migration Celebration. The free, family-friendly event commemorates the fall bird migration. From 10 a ...

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 ...

Millions of birds are expected to take flight across the U.S. Saturday night, Sept. 6, as part of their fall migration, according to a nonprofit that tracks bird migrations, although numbers in ...

Migratory birds embody some of the most intricate evolutionary adaptations in the animal kingdom, without which their journeys would be impossible. Here’s how the Pfeilstorch taught us this. In the ...

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 ...

As bittersweet as this all is, I think that I shall attempt to focus on the sweetness of the season. The meadow that I spend so much of my time observing from the comfortable support of my Thinking ...