Why do birds suddenly gather and fly together in huge groups? Discover the science behind spectacular bird murmurations, how individual birds coordinate their movements, why flocking helps protect ...

Look up during the migration season and you may spot one of nature's most impressive spectacles: a flock of birds flying in a perfect V-shaped formation across the sky. From geese and pelicans to ...

On a New Mexico college campus, there’s a large field that many birds fly over. Lately, some of those birds have been dead. Mostafa Hassanalian, an engineering professor at the New Mexico Institute of ...

The dark, smudgy streaks on Xavi Bou's photographs suggest the jerky ink tracks created by a malfunctioning printer, but they actually record the various patterns birds trace while flying in flocks.