Steve Zack is coordinator of Bird Conservation for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Thanksgiving is upon us, as families and friends gather for food, drink and conversation.

And at each wingtip they have finger-like anatomy that can move about 30 degrees, ... But none of that can compare to a real bird flying, flapping and adjusting its wings with natural finesse.

A bird's appearance and behaviour, she explains, influence and are influenced by its skeleton — such as the bony spurs that some have on their wings, used for fighting.

The question of whether the Late Jurassic dino-bird Archaeopteryx was an elaborately feathered ground dweller, a glider, or an active flyer has fascinated palaeontologists for decades. Valuable ...

Taking the advice and diving in, Thompson found sporadic examples across avian species through an exhaustive literature search, followed by surveys sent to ornithologists, avian ecologists, and ...

Blue and black outlines represent the positions of the bird and wing at the start and end of downstroke, respectively. a, In the vertebral space, the mean wing-stroke plane angle shifts more than ...

Steve Zack is coordinator of Bird Conservation for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Thanksgiving is upon us, as families and friends gather for food, drink and conversation.

The question of whether the Late Jurassic dino-bird Archaeopteryx was an elaborately feathered ground dweller, a glider, or an active flyer has fascinated palaeontologists for decades. Valuable ...