Whether taking off, sustaining flight, or landing, birds must overcome the tremendous energy demands of flying. Methods for meeting those energy demands are almost as diverse as the variety of ...

Clean bird baths provide feathered friends with access to safe water they can drink or use to bathe themselves. When left uncleaned, the water in a bird bath can pose health risks to birds and ...

Birds need water for drinking and their feathery ablutions too - bathing and preening are essential to keep feathers in good condition. You can create a DIY bird bath from any water-tight shallow ...

The beak is large yet very thin, and the lower mandible extends past the upper mandible, making it ideal for how this bird catches food. As it flies, it dips the lower mandible into the water ...

The water birds eat mostly small fish, but will also consume crayfish, insects, frogs, tadpoles, grasshoppers, snakes, worms, snails and small rodents. It generally is a more southern species but ...

Biologists have discovered that a little bird called the common swift (Apus apus) can fly for 10 months straight without landing. Using a new type of data logger that detects both light and the ...

It is that the engineering problems that we humans solve as we see and walk and plan and make it through the day are far more challenging than landing ... a drop of pond water teems with ...

You may have heard this story before but it's not the only time that something like this has happened, and despite that success, landing a plane on the water is extremely dangerous. Let’s see ...

Starlings are highly social birds throughout the year, but this does not mean that they copy ... July 3, 2024 — Blue and great tits recall what they have eaten in the past, where they found the ...

Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings. Birds are found worldwide and ...

Inside there’s an Arduino MKR GSM to run the ripple-generating air pump, detect water from the sensor, and gather data from the microphone. With a network of these devices all reporting data ...

Biologists have discovered that a little bird called the common swift (Apus apus) can fly for 10 months straight without landing. Using a new type of data logger that detects both light and the ...