Every spring and fall, in North America, weather radar captures something besides the actual weather. As large flocks of ...

Fireworks and other pyrotechnics are acknowledged as sources of disturbance to wildlife, with evidence that many species react adversely to their sight and sound at discharge. However, how firework ...

Swift bird in flight with a colorful sky in background. Black swallow. Image with copy space.© Marco Lissoni/Shutterstock.com Look up at the sky—what do you see? During the day, it’s a vast expanse of ...

Hundreds of millions of birds are taking to the skies each night, southward-bound in search of warmer weather — so many that you can spot them on weather radar. It’s data that researchers can use to ...

During hurricane season, many people track the path of each storm using the National Weather Service’s Doppler radar or other weather radar systems. After Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big ...

Wind turbines generate climate-friendly electricity, but they can pose a danger to migratory birds. A study led by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) published ...

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 ...

Right now hundreds of millions of birds are making their annual trek to settle down in their northern breeding grounds. As they fly hundreds to even thousands of miles, they stop occasionally to ...

Spring bird migration is so smokin’ hot right now that their massive numbers show up on our local weather radar. In mid-May, perhaps hundreds of thousands of birds pass over our region as we sleep ...