Every page of Peter Cavanagh's "100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight," from the preface, where the author begins with “Flight is the essence of bird life. Flying has allowed birds ...

If a camera is your birding tool of choice or is a consideration, here is a book focused sharply on you. Few tips can be offered for binoculars beyond don't drop them. Cameras are a bird of a ...

If it weren’t for passionate people, this would be a dull world indeed. Peter Cavanagh, of Lopez Island, certainly qualifies in the passionate category, having taken 600,000 photos in the past 13 ...

A PAIR of flying whooper swans glide above the water in seamless harmony in the city of Sanmenxia in Henan province, China. The image is titled Fairy Landing on Earth, and it won Shu Qing the bronze ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most bird species don’t fly above a few thousand feet in ...

Birds fly in a V formation to save energy. The bird in front creates lift for those behind. This teamwork makes long flights easier. Scientists studied ibises using tracking devices. They observed ...