Engineers at Stanford University have been working on a robot that is part quadrotor flying drone and part peregrine falcon. The upper half of the robot looks like a common quadrotor drone designed to ...

Although winged micro air vehicles (MAVs) are pretty impressive in free flight, one of the skills that has proven difficult for them to master is the bird-like perched landing. Aerospace engineers ...

New research by a global team of scientists has resulted in significant strides in ornithological classification and identified possible causes of diversity among modern bird species. New research by ...

Flying is an energy-intensive activity. The birds and the bees don’t hover around incessantly like your little sister’s quadcopter. They flit to and fro, perching on branches and leaves while they ...

You most likely have seen them while walking in your neighborhood or driving down the street: flocks of birds perched neatly in a row on overhead telephone and electric wires strung between utility ...

To encourage hummingbirds to visit your yard this spring, you'll likely be prioritizing feeders, flowers, and perhaps a few dashes of red – but it's easy to forget that perching spots are just as ...

Getting small drones and other miniature craft to take flight has been fairly elementary work for designers in the past several years, but the really tricky parts--as any amateur drone pilot can tell ...