Birds have been migrating for all of recorded history, but how they pull off their globetrotting travels without a map or GPS ...

Every year, billions of birds undertake intrepid journeys between temperate regions in North America and their tropical ...

Radar data from Colombia reveals how tropical winds shape bird migration and pose new challenges for conservation.

Birds migrate along ancient routes — here’s how scientists are studying their journeys Technology is providing new insights into bird migration, revealing that it is more complex than we ever knew ...

Birds approach the challenges of migration in surprising ways. Learn how some birds migrate by walking, swimming or taking the scenic route. Birds & Blooms. 5 Surprising Ways That Birds Migrate.

At one point in the not-too-distant past, winter’s lack of birds completely flummoxed some of history’s greatest thinkers. Just a few hundred years ago philosophers posited that birds buried ...

On May 21, 1822, a hunter on the Bothmer Estate near Mecklenburg, Germany, shot and killed a white stork, only to find that the bird already had a 30-inch wooden spear lodged in its neck.

In the 17th century, scientist Charles Morton declared that birds migrate to the moon and back each year. He estimated an outbound trip of 60 days.

An estimated 1 billion birds use the Pacific flyway, a route through Western coastal states, during their migration, and many millions more migrate via the central flyway through the interior West.

You see, bird migration on the surface seems simple enough. Birds fly south in winter and north in spring. But […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 17°F. Saturday, March 1st 2025 ...

This is a peak month for bird migration as winter approaches, with millions of birds flying south over Colorado every night. On the night shown here, 6.3 million birds migrated over the state.