Birds have long been our inspiration for flight, and researchers at Princeton University have found a new trick in their arsenal: covert feathers. These small feathers on top of birds’ wings lay flat ...

Birds have long been nature’s masters of flight. Their ability to glide, dive, and twist through the air with ease has fascinated both scientists and engineers. But there's more to bird flight than ...

Dec. 8, 2003 – University of Utah biologists twirled louse-infested bird feathers on an electric fan and flew pigeons and doves like kites on strings in a study that found small lice stick to small ...

Placement, construction, shape and material are essential nest considerations. Each species meets its own needs with its own style, developed over eons. Many bird species employ feathers in their ...

Researchers have described ten fossil feathers from the polar regions of the former continent Gondwana for the first time. The collection, documented in a recent paper in Gondwana Research, contains a ...

Researchers reveals how the microstructure of small finlets on owl feathers enable silent flight. A recent research study conducted by City, University of London's Professor Christoph Bruecker and his ...

A mere rainbow sheen of oil on the water’s surface — typical of what is seen in a marina — can damage seabird feathers A Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) soars above a calm oil-free sea. (Credit: ...