This disconnect helps the follower dodge the substantial downwash of air directly to the rear of a flying bird, Portugal and his colleagues report in the Jan. 16 Nature. Big birds such as ibises ...

Flying like a bird at 5,000ft, the winged wonder. By MICHAEL HANLON. Last updated at 11:29 30 December 2006. Man has dreamt of flight ever since our ancestors first saw birds soaring into the sky.

The biggest flying bird that ever lived had double the wingspan of today's biggest flying bird, the royal albatross. The royal albatross, with a wingspan of 3.5 metres, is a mere pigeon compared ...

Migrating birds fly in a V-formation to take advantage of the aerodynamic effects of flying behind another bird. Remarkably, birds take turns at the front despite no obvious benefit to the individual.

For the past few weeks, the prospect of seeing two the nation’s most spectacularly flying bird species has been drawing birders, including me, to some old agricultural fields near Watkinsville ...

A pattern resembling a flying bird, known as "noutori" in Japanese, can be seen on the slope of Mount Fuji, as seen in this photo taken near Noson Park in the city of Fujiyoshida in Yamanashi ...