You can see them pretty much anywhere in South Florida, taking flight over our skies. Swallow-tailed kites and their very ...

The Wright Brothers studied bird flight before they designed the first ... On the other hand, a barn swallow spends most of the day in the air, swooping about gracefully to catch flying insects.

What Does a Tree Swallow Look Like? The tree swallow is typically a straightforward enough bird to identify, even for newer birders. With shiny, almost iridescent teal upperparts and white below, ...

The only problem is the bird wasn't allowed on her Frontier flight, although it was allowed on the Frontier flight out of JFK. So what happened? She says the gate agents in Puerto Rico told her an ...

Sandpipers are known to sleep on their migratory flights. These short naps allow them to cover large bodies of water without ...

They use their beaks to grab and swallow food. Even the way a bird reproduces is related to flight. Instead of carrying the extra weight of developing young inside their bodies, they lay eggs and ...

BirdCast provides real-time predictions of bird migrations ... 15), Nashville warbler (April 1), bank swallow (April 1), Lewis’s woodpecker (April 8) and western kingbird (April 8).

Purple martins, a glossy black and purple swallow species that migrates to South ... In Michigan, many purple martin enthusiasts set up large bird houses or complexes in their backyard to aid ...