In 1931, the ornithologist Edmund Selous argued that a starling murmuration, which he described as “a madness in the sky,” could only arise through telepathy. The birds “must think ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If birds left tracks in the sky, what would they look like? For years Barcelona-based photographer Xavi Bou has been ...

thousands of birds and moths start flying frantically and then dropping out of the sky across all of the decks." "The crew said they have never seen anything like this before and closed the decks.

Hundreds of dead birds have reportedly been falling from the sky in dystopian scenes in Pennsylvania. The culprit is thought to be the H5N1 bird flu strain that has been devastating poultry and ...

Kuwait City - known as the world's hottest city - can be witness to scenes like out of an Old Testament passage, with birds falling from the sky and fish boiling in the waters. The Middle Eastern ...

Biologists, physicists, and engineers have all tried to solve the problem. One theory is that individual birds follow their neighbors' lead. There are nearly 120 species of starlings. You can find ...

Surprisingly, whether they hang out in the sky, land or sea, they still have lungs and need to breathe air, just like us mammals. Also like mammals, birds are warm blooded. So usually they'll be ...

Fall migration runs between August 1 and November 30. Peak spring migration is in April. Birds are on the move as their annual spring migration begins. Radar tracking allows you to follow along to ...

At first, it was just an unnatural morning quiet that residents noticed. Then birds were found dead by the hundreds. Some people said they saw them dropping from the sky. Locals reported that, ...

Wide-eyed bird appreciators raised their binoculars to the sky on Portland’s Sauvie Island Sunday morning to catch ever-changing scenes of wintering birds and early spring migration. Leading ...