The New Jersey Audubon Society’s World Series of Birding is one of the nation’s premier bird-watching events, drawing in ...

European nightjars use their sight when they hunt at night. In the moonlight they find it easier to catch flying insects and replenish their energy reserves. The birds migratefly in three stages ...

The next few weeks mark the peak of bird migration season, a biannual natural phenomenon when hundreds of millions of birds journey across the continent, primarily at night. Scientists are calling ...

There was a particularly high volume of birds set to migrate south for the winter that night. The birds had been waiting for winds from the north or west to ease their journey. “Those birds ...

Willard checks the grounds of Chicago’s lakefront exhibition center during migration season for dead birds. “A normal night would be zero to 15 (dead) birds. It was just kind of a shocking ...

In Colorado, almost 6 million birds flew over the state Wednesday night, Sept. 4, according to BirdCast, a real-time predictor of bird migrations. An estimated 193,000 birds flew over Summit ...