Birds flying inspire awe — but how much do you know about flight? Learn which bird flies highest, which flying bird is heaviest, and more.

While there are several reasons birds fly in flocks, the most dominant is for protection from predators, Bostwick said. Safety is also the reason for all the unpredictable movement, a survival dance ...

The second reason as to why birds do this has to do with sight. Flying in a V makes it easier to track every bird that is in the group, and may help with communication with other birds.

Why do flocks of birds swoop and swirl together in the sky? – Artie W., age 9, Astoria, New York A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see.

The best time to see birds fly is after sunset and at night. By flying at night, they are able to avoid daytime predators and ...

But why do birds fly at night? And how does the weather play into this? By flying at night, it allows birds that aren’t strong fliers to avoid tricky and dangerous flight situations.

Aimy Wissa’s Bio-Inspired Adaptive Morphology (BAM) Laboratory analyzes nature and how it’s related to engineering, drawing real-world applications from concepts like specific feathers on birds, which ...