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

A wandering albatross is a "regal, feathery thing of unspotted whiteness," wrote Herman Melville. They look white in flight, but even the wanderers have a few darker feathers on their wings ...

Once, Short-tailed albatross were considered the most common albatross species in the North Pacific. But feather collectors ... taking its first flight to sea where it will stay for a few years ...

The feathers of the male superb bird of paradise ... while making a snapping sound with his wings, and circling in flight. But the most impressive of all is the fourth display, which looks very ...

The following diagram shows what these information resulting from an instrument-fitted albatross flight looks like ... images that were obscured by feathers. However, the rapidly decreasing ...

Large albatross species can spend up to five years at sea. Albatrosses were once hunted for their feathers, which were used to make hats. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, The Rime of the ...

This is up to more than twice as big as that of the royal albatross, the largest living ... Unusually, "it's quite likely it had to molt all its flight feathers at the same time," Ksepka said.

Scientists are tracking a group of young black-browed albatross, who have begun their first epic journeys across the Southern Ocean. In April 2023, 26 young black-browed albatross on Bird Island ...

“Our work with feathers may explain why species like the Wandering Albatross that breed slowly and that are difficult to study because of their open ocean habits travel over such extraordinary ...