The common swift (Apus apus) may seem unassuming at first glance, weighing a mere 40 grams on average. However, this tiny ...

Long before birds fluttered their wings and took their maiden flight, it was pterosaurs - the distant cousins of birds - that ...

The Andean condor is the world's heaviest soaring bird and can weigh up to 15kg The world's heaviest soaring bird flaps its wings just 1% of the time during flight, researchers have found.

After first photographing a blue tit's display in his Shropshire garden he has spent the past few weeks making a collection of other visiting birds recorded mid-flight and surrounded by colour.

You would have to look quickly to see either, however, as these speedy little birds can beat their wings 53 times a second ... embark on a marathon, nonstop flight across the Gulf of Mexico.

A doctoral student has created the RAVEN drone, with a wingspan of 39 inches, that he hopes might one day be used for deliveries ...

American Airlines passengers feared for their lives Thursday when a bird flew into the engine of their outbound LaGuardia flight — forcing ... “I was right by the wing and I saw it.