A field begins to flood after harvest near Knights Landing, California. Paying rice farmers to create “pop-up” migratory bird habitat has since created tens of thousands of acres of temporary wetlands ...

One projection shows favorable weather conditions may lead to a large “pulse” of birds migrating north over Kentucky and other states into Ohio and onward over the next few days. Bo Rader Wichita ...

The migrating motor complex (MMC) is a cyclic, recurring motility pattern that occurs in the stomach and small bowel during fasting; it is interrupted by feeding. The MMC is present in the ...

Bangor University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Birds have an impressive ability to navigate. They can fly long distances, to places that they may never have visited before, ...

DULUTH, MINN. - The sky above Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory on Sept. 18 was gray, woolen and seemingly static. Lake Superior, though, was rocking with an east wind; whitecaps pocked its surface. And ...

One of the most widely used agricultural insecticides causes severe weight loss in white-crowned sparrows and delays the migration of these common North American songbirds, according to a new study ...

City lights can be a fatal risk to migrating birds in the spring and autumn (Credit: Getty Images) About two billion birds fly through Texas in the spring – and lit-up buildings pose a deadly risk.