Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...

A new study of ancient feathers adds weight to the theory that primitive birds — close relatives of feathered dinosaurs — were far less versatile fliers than their modern descendants. A new study of ...

Males of a South American forest bird make courtship music with built-in scrapers—just as insects do. This is the first example of a vertebrate producing sound in this manner, scientists report. A ...

The raven-size creature long thought of as the earliest bird, Archaeopteryx, may have been adorned with black feathers, researchers have found. The structures that held the black pigment may have ...

The sight of birds soaring through the sky has inspired humans for generations before the invention of powered flight in the early 20th century. Still looking to learn from winged animals, a team of ...

Birds regularly shed and regrow their body and wing feathers in a process, called molting, that is critical for flight, migration, insulation, breeding and survival. Archaeopteryx is the fossil that ...

The distinctive whirring, whistling trill produced by pigeons quickly taking flight is created by just two feathers — one on each wing. The whistling sound pigeons make when they take off in a hurry ...

Most birds can fly, but flightless birds like penguins and ostriches have adapted to life without wings. Scientists, though, have much to learn about differences between flying and non-flying birds.

The bird's feather which does not contain the decoration of diamonds or pure gold is said to have been awarded at an auction with a value of about 500,000 yen added. This wing belongs to a bird that ...

Norm Saake described a dead duck’s wing last week with an appreciation akin to an art lover pondering a favorite painting. “When this duckling hatches, he’s just all full of down. And these feathers ...