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Oliver Widger says he decided to chase his sailing dream after being diagnosed with a neck issue that could ultimately ...
BIG BEAR, Calif. -- It's been 10 weeks since the world was introduced to the Big Bear eaglets, now known as Gizmo and Sunny.
Sibling eaglets Sunny and Gizmo, the offspring of celebrity couple Jackie and Shadow, hatched in March 2025 and are expected to fly soon.
Obi participated in three test flights led by robot-building engineers at Stanford University to better understand how birds fly. So far, the general theories behind avian flight hold that a wing’s ...
There’s no simple answer there.” Some birds also fly while sleeping with one half of their brain. Fur seals also sleep with one side of the brain while they’re swimming, but on land they ...
Young eagles like Sunny and Gizmo typically fledge –or leave the nest and fly–when they can flatten their wings and have ...
It also occasionally inhabits areas of the American Southwest. This bird gained its name due to its tendency to swoop from its perch to grab flying insects mid-air. These birds are small but ...
Famed theater performs outdoor show each Sunday for whoever passes by. “It’s energizing to be at places like this,” puppeteer tells columnist.
Superb starlings—medium-sized, often brilliantly colored birds in eastern Africa—work together to raise their flock’s young. And according to a new study, they reciprocally help each other ...
Right now, millions of birds are flying through the Midwest, making their way to spring breeding sites. You can track their migration patterns with Birdcast, a free service managed by the Cornell ...
We meet a menagerie: pigs, a crow, a dodo bird, a frog ... onto the asphalt to bring a puppet closer to us. In one segment, a bumblebee with allergies keeps flying toward a daisy but, after ...
Why are birds so important? (The wonderful talking bird puppets are by Erik Sanko and others, expertly manipulated by the actors and the sound design by DJ Potts.) How exactly are the four seasons ...