Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book.

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“Birds routinely fly in high winds close to buildings and terrain — often in gusts as fast as their flight speed,” Windsor said. “So the ability to cope with strong and sudden changes in wind is ...

If the wind is blowing behind them, the birds fly high up in the sky where the wind will increase their speed. Do birds migrate to Northern Ireland? Birds do migrate to Northern Ireland!

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

“How do you make a hinge? Look at a fruit fly.” Princeton’s Bio-Inspired Adaptive Morphology (BAM ... all of which are used to investigate nature-driven solutions to engineering problems. “Birds ...