Waterfowl and all manner of birds fly south for the winter. Birders follow the migration, often from a viewing blind on the ...

Check out the bird species you might see at your backyard feeder this winter in different parts of North Carolina.

Thanksgiving. But when a recent viral discussion revealed that baby turkeys aren’t called chicks, it caught many off guard. The correct term is poult. It’s not just a vocabulary tweak. It signals how ...

Taylor-O’Connor (formerly Cunha) is a lawyer and animal cognition researcher who lives in Jupiter, Florida — and grew up in a ...

Ruby-throated hummingbirds are among some of the most incredible migrating animals, traveling hundreds of miles in a single flight.

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...

When animals nod off, they're most vulnerable to sneaky predators. But despite the risks, the need for sleep is so strong ...

Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, stealing seconds at a time during around-the-clock parenting, getting winks on the wing ...

Abstract: We present BEVCon, a simple yet effective contrastive learning framework designed to improve Bird's Eye View (BEV) perception in autonomous driving. BEV perception offers a top-down-view ...

Abstract: Accurate recognition of bird emotions is essential for advancing bird behavior studies and conservation efforts. This paper introduces a learning approach for bird emotions recognition, ...

Flight simulator video games can benefit a pilot in training, provided they understand the gamification limitations.

In a yearlong independent study, Dylan Berr ’26 is investigating how birds navigate and occupy campus spaces—insights that ...