Smaller birds fly at night, taking advantage of calmer conditions and with a tailwind to lower their energy use. Over the next few nights, winds will be out of the south where small birds fly ...

Some stop to rest at Lake Michigan. A few stay in Indiana to nest. Most continue north. The second weekend of May is usually the peak of migration. On average, about 6 million birds pass over Indiana ...

Indiana’s skies are a nighttime highway in the early weeks of May as millions of birds make the migratory passage north for their summer homes. Herons, sparrows and buntings of all varieties fly ...

CHOTEAU, Mont. — Each spring, near the tiny town of Choteau, Mont., population 2,000, the sky comes alive. Huge flocks of migrating geese, swans and other birds swoop in for a rest on their long ...

About 98.5 percent of long-distance bird species in the entire U.S. pass through before they fly over the ocean, according to the Audubon Center at the lake. The center is a nonprofit organization.

The first few days in May had an average of about 4.5 million birds migrating over Indiana at night, and experts predict an average of about 6 million birds passing each night through the end of May.

More than 75,000 birds have died after an outbreak of disease in a California wetlands refuge. The Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge in the Klamath Basin, near the California-Oregon border, is in ...

"We have millions of birds that fly over Wisconsin on a given spring," said Holly Walz, a naturalist at the Wehr Nature Center. "About 300 different species actually fly through the Wehr Nature ...

The herring gull is a medium-sized bird that can grow to slightly over 2 feet long with a wingspan of up to 5 feet. The Canada goose ( Branta canadensis ) though once endangered, is now a familiar ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The Buckeye State is currently seeing it’s peak bird migration season, as millions of birds fly over or to the state every single day and night. These birds travel ...