When a bird isn’t flying, it folds its wings neatly and tucks them against its body, out of the way. What’s more, when the wings are closed, the feathers that are most important for flight are ...

Large birds, such as storks, ... When we think of birds gliding majestically through the sky without beating their wings, we imagine large species like storks or hawks searching silently for prey.

In 1857 French paleontologist Édouard Lartet described a very large wing bone of one of these birds, which he believed might have belonged to an ancient albatross. He dubbed it Pelagornis ...

More than 100 million years ago, birds living in what is now China sported wings on their legs, a new study of fossils suggests. Researchers found evidence of large leg feathers in 11 bird ...

We have many majestic and imposing birds in Marin — maybe the next generation will see even larger wings soaring overhead. Jack Gedney’s On the Wing runs every other Monday.

Toby, a female Red-Tailed Hawk, perches on a branch at the W.K. Kellogg Bird Sanctuary in Kalamazoo County on Monday, April 15, 2024. Toby dislocated her right wing in 2009 and was found on the ...

Researchers found evidence of large leg feathers in 11 bird specimens from China's Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature. The feathers suggest that early birds had four wings, which may have played a ...