Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Migratory birds are some of nature’s most efficient ...

Millions of birds invisibly migrate through the night sky each autumn, most flying in near silence toward their wintering grounds. Now, scientists have developed a way to see and identify many of ...

Every year a small songbird, no heavier than a letter, crosses the Sahara Desert, the Mediterranean and the Arabian Desert on its migration. New research from Lund University in Sweden now reveals how ...

ATLANTA — Take one morning this week to sit outside and enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea. If you listen and reflect, you'll hear a chorus of songs. Some of those songs may be from year-round ...

Large clusters appearing on weather radars are likely massive flocks of migrating birds, not storms. A record-breaking 1.2 billion birds were estimated to be migrating in a single night during the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s been a big week for bird migration, and Central Texas has been part of it. More than a billion birds were recorded as being on the move Wednesday night as they fly south for the ...

Between now and mid-October is the height of fall migration, when tens of millions of birds — songbirds, raptors, shorebirds and water fowl — fly across Georgia on their way to the southern tropics ...