“You don’t see it as much when they are perched,” Neil says, “but that rose patch is really noticeable in flight.” Young birds still show a distinct long bifurcated split tail, although it’s not as ...

At sunset, a flock of chimney swifts flying south will look for a place to roost for the night. When they find a suitable ...

It also helped if they were permanent and not part of the bird’s breeding plumage to be shed later, which ruled out the whydahs. The following are 10 birds who really do have long tails.

After being declared "unreleasable" in 2023, Phantom's wild spirit and remarkable recovery convinced caretakers to fight for ...

A pigeon-inspired robot has solved the mystery of how birds fly without the vertical tail fins that human-designed aircraft rely on. Its makers say the prototype could eventually lead to passenger ...

The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds.

A bird fossil of similar age to Archaeopteryx shows flight-aiding innovations such as the loss of a long tail. Fossil find reveals the earliest known short-tailed bird.

Ondrej Prosicky / Getty Images Male long-tailed sylphs (Aglaiocercus kingii) have amazingly long tails, around five inches in length. They are so long that they actually hamper the birds' flight ...

Scientists think these long-tailed birds were the males of the species and those with short tails were females.

In modern birds, caudal vertebrae are reduced, with the last few fusing into a pygostyle. This adaptation was crucial for flight. Think of a peacock fanning its tail — it’s the pygostyle that controls ...

The article explores the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and modern birds, highlighting various bird-like creatures from ...