Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...

What makes these long primary feathers so interesting is how the "fuzzy" part is at the very end, making them look like two long black wires sticking out from the bird. The male Standard-Winged ...

Birds that migrate over long distances can often be identified by wings with sharper primary feathers designed to help them preserve energy. Birds such as terns, swifts, ducks, falcons and ...

Key to the first bird’s flight was likely a set of ... having a long upper arm bone can create a gap between the long primary and secondary feathers of the wing and the rest of your body.

Scans of the Chicago Archaeopteryx show feather and bone features that worked together to create lift.

There are two primary ways that birds get their color: pigmentation and the physical structure of the feather – sometimes a combination of both. Pigments are the chemical substances in ...

Birds that migrate over long distances can often be identified by wings with sharper primary feathers designed to help them preserve energy. Birds such as terns, swifts, ducks, falcons and ...