Research from Washington University in St. Louis says that bird wing shape—a proxy for long-distance flying ability—is a trait that influences biodiversity patterns on islands around the world.

The shape then dissipated, and the birds began to reshape ending up as ... Murmuration gets its name from the sound of "many flapping wings of a group of starlings in flight." ...

Everything about the anatomy of a bird reflects its ability to fly. The wings, for example, are shaped to create lift. The leading edge is thicker than the back edge, and they are covered in ...

When vertebrates moved onto land, long ago, some of them eventually became airborne, way after the insects did. There are ...

a flight feather is shaped asymmetrically, the leading edge thin and stiff, the trailing edge long and flexible. To generate lift, a bird has merely to tilt its wings, adjusting the flow of air ...