The smallest is the two-inch-long bee hummingbird. Everything about the anatomy of a bird reflects its ability to fly. The wings, for example, are shaped to create lift. The leading edge is ...

The broken-wing display, in which birds fake being wounded to protect their nests from predators, is found across the avian phylogenetic tree, a study finds. Now that it had an audience, the killdeer ...

It requires a complete reimagining of our anatomy. If we want to fly ... specialties involves different types of wings. For example, Habib said that a bird that flaps throughout a journey has ...

The paper, by V.B. Baliga at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "Range of motion in the avian wing is strongly associated with flight behavior and ...