Spring bird migration is visible on weather radar, with potentially hundreds of thousands of birds passing overhead at night. The Indiana Dunes Birding Festival, held May 15-18, offers opportunities ...

The birds are on the move. In flocks so think they look like a "storm" cluster on your weather radar, the birds are moving for their annual fall migration. Most of the migration is concentrated in the ...

National Bird Day 2025 highlights how bird population changes reveal environmental stress and ecosystem health worldwide.

Millions of birds pass through and above the Champaign-Urbana area on their way to warmer southern regions during the fall and winter migration period. At its peak, migratory numbers over C-U are in ...

MICHIGAN, USA — The first signs of spring are showing up across West Michigan. Flowers blooming, grass greening and birds coming back home. Birds have been migrating in very large numbers over the ...

DULUTH — “It’s a magical world back here,” Margie Menzies said on a chilly morning in early September. Like most days, Menzies, the education director for the Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, has been ...

Cornell's BirdCast is a user-friendly project that lets you watch migration as it happens. As surely as one season marches into the next, the natural world follows suit and prepares for the changes ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology welcomes the Ithaca community on Saturday, Sept. 13 for its annual Migration Celebration. The free, family-friendly event commemorates the fall bird migration. From 10 a ...

The primary reason birds migrate is survival. Most species move to find food and safe places to raise their young. In temperate or polar regions, winters are harsh and food sources such as insects, ...