When many migrating birds undertake their arduous flights, they'll often arrange themselves in a V shape, but what drives ...

If you strap them to, say, a flock of geese, the birds would fly off into ... a lot and the flock had no constant leader. But flying in a V isn’t just about staying in the right place.

Q: I’ve seen migrating geese flying in V-formation, and the sight always makes me wonder how the point bird is chosen. Is it always the same one? — Claire Muskus | Lisbon, Connecticut It isn ...

leading scientists to predict how closely bunched birds in a V-shaped flock should be to save the most energy. But it's no easy feat to measure the coordinates of a bunch of geese or gulls flying ...

Geese have known something for millions of years that humans have only recently figured out for themselves. The Art of Sausage Making The Incredible Flying Car of the 1950s The Corning Museum of ...

Increased food supplies from grain and rice fields seem to surpass nutrients the geese can find farther south. Large lawns and golf courses are another attractant. The consistent V-shaped flying ...

Canada geese flying in their signature v-formation weren’t always such a common fall sight in Minnesota. Hunting and habitat loss decimated the birds’ population a century ago. Numbers had ...

To reduce the effort, geese fly at night when the air is calmer, or in the day when there’s a helpful tailwind; they avoid flying into a ... the familiar V-shape appears. This form of drafting ...

Great clouds of snow geese are streaming across our winter skies, having arrived along Texas’ coastal regions and inland ...

In 2019, Airbus returned to the study of birds with the "fello'fly" project to understand how migrating geese conserve energy while flying in V formation. From it, a "wake energy retrieval ...