Discover 10 birds that can sleep while flying, including swifts and frigatebirds, and learn how unihemispheric sleep helps ...

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Swifts practically live in the sky. These birds skip land for nearly a year, doing everything midair, from eating to sleeping. They travel thousands of miles without ever stopping to perch. Scientists ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Migratory birds are some of nature’s most efficient ...

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A young shorebird stunned scientists after it completed one of the longest non-stop migratory flights ever recorded. The four-month old bird flew an astonishing 13,560 kilometres from Alaska to ...

Every fall, the skies of the northeastern United States fill with warblers, barn swallows and other birds heading south to warmer climates. The journeys are long—often spanning continents—and birds ...

Every year, billions of birds around the world take to the skies for their annual migration. It’s truly astonishing as these journeys often span oceans, continents, and even hemispheres. Some species ...