However, there's a lot that scientists don't know about how the wings and feathers of flightless birds differ from their ...

A wildlife rehabilitator caring for the injured raptor said it could take two or more years for the feathers to return and give flight. The post Hawk rescued after being found with wing feathers and ...

But a bird wing is vastly more sophisticated than anything composed of sheet metal and rivets. From a central feather shaft extends a series of slender barbs, each sprouting smaller barbules ...

To those of us who weren't blessed with feathers and wings – hey, at least we've got thumbs, right? – the ability to take to the air, travel huge distances from amazing heights, only to land ...

A government repository in Colorado that provides dead eagles and their parts for free to tribal members keeps up with orders for individual feathers, such as for graduates. Yet it’s unable to meet ...

These small feathers on top of birds’ wings lay flat during normal flight but flare up in turbulence during landing. By attaching flexible plastic strips – “covert flaps” – to the top of ...

SHREWSBURY, Massachusetts (WCVB) — Police are investigating after a red-tailed hawk was found in Paxton, Massachusetts, with the feathers of its wings and tail cut off. “When I first held the ...

Researchers attached covert feather-inspired flaps to a 3D-printed model airplane wing and mounted it in a wind tunnel to explore the role of covert feathers in bird flight. By precisely measuring ...

According to Jess Zorge, a wildlife rehabilitator at Raptor Rales Rescue in Shrewsbury, the hawk had the feathers of both wings and tail “maliciously and completely sheared off.” In a Facebook ...