Bird species are hypothesized to join mixed-species flocks (flocks hereon) either for direct foraging or antipredation-related benefits. In this study, conducted in a tropical evergreen forest in the ...

We explored patterns of flight activity, flocking, and habitat use in a diverse community of parrots in an Amazonian lowland forest. Parrots were most active just after sunrise with a second peak of ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Simple models have given us surprising insight into how animals flock, but most assume they do so through a homogeneous landscape. Colloidal experiments now suggest that a little disorder can have ...

When birds travel in flocks, their behavior takes on emergent properties. Out of the chaos of flight, gorgeous, geometric patterns coalesce. When photographers capture these patterns at exactly the ...

Anne Doull is busy in winter. Together with her parents Margaret and Addie, she owns 650 sheep in the northwest of Mainland, ...

They twist and turn across the sky in dense, whirling formations—murmurations of birds that seem to move as one, captivating watchers and puzzling scientists for decades. Now, a new analysis suggests ...