Birds have an ability to fly through obstacles by shifting their shape in flight, which is difficult to reproduce in uncrewed ...

Birds exhibit a wide variety of fascinating nesting and offspring-rearing behaviors throughout their lifecycle. Against the odds, they protect and guide their young from hatching to leaving the nest ...

Graduate students Huanglun Zhu and Kiran Weston set up a 3D printed model of a hawk wing for testing in the UC Davis wind tunnel. Based on motion capture imaging at Oxford University, the wind tunnel ...

Migratory birds in V-formations master aerodynamic principles, using air currents from leading birds to conserve energy.