Birds have a bad habit of flying directly into big machines, like planes or wind turbines. This phenomenon, dubbed “ birdstrike ,” usually ends, well… badly for our feathered friends.

Flying birds often arrange themselves into a crisp, ... lightweight GPS units and other sensors a few years ago finally made it possible to find out exactly what birds are up to in flight.

The idea is that another bird can get a boost from an updraft of air in that wake by flying behind the first bird and off to the side. When a bunch of birds use this trick, they form a V.

The motivation for flying with other birds in V formation is probably to save energy, say researchers who tracked the pattern of wing flaps in an ibis flock. Each bird in the V catches a bit of ...

Flying birds often arrange themselves into a crisp, perfect V, ... lightweight GPS units and other sensors a few years ago finally made it possible to find out exactly what birds are up to in flight.

That’s apparently just what birds are doing when flying in a V-formation, ... with 14 of those birds sporting GPS loggers and accelerometers to track wing flap activity.

The researchers and the group outfitted 14 birds with high-tech gadgets that used GPS to log each bird’s position and used accelerometers to measure the up-and-down motion of their wings.

Billions of birds travel distances incomprehensible to humans annually. Some, like the Arctic tern, log sufficient miles in ...

It take a flock to fly. Over grueling, dangerous flights, Northern bald ibises will take turns at the toughest job during their migration -- leading the V-shaped formation, a new study finds.

Migrating birds fly in a V-formation to take advantage of the aerodynamic effects of flying behind another bird. Remarkably, birds take turns at the front despite no obvious benefit to the individual.

Many migratory birds use Earth’s magnetic field as a compass, but some can also use information from that field to determine more or less where they are on a mental map.