Bird flocks soar through the sky like a liquid, atomic orchestra

Is there math behind flocking birds and schooling fish? Scientists decode the animals’ synchronised behaviour and liken it to ...
Phys.org

For birds, flocks promise safety, especially if you're faster than your neighbor

As I walked along Bolivar Flats, just across from Galveston Island in Texas, I watched flocks of sanderlings forage along the frothy wavefront as it surged and retreated. Nearby, Caspian terns, ...
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Couple teach birds to migrate to Spain by flying 1,600 miles alongside them in a paraglider

Helena Wehner and Johannes Fritz are part of an Austrian conservation group known as Waldrappteam, which are dedicated to ...

This weird trick helped physicists solve the bird flock mystery that defied Newton for years

Scientists have developed a new theory to explain how systems like bird flocks exhibit non-reciprocal interactions, seemingly ...

How Flocking Birds “Defy” One of Physics’ Most Fundamental Laws

Bird flocks, bacterial swarms, and even crowds move according to interaction rules that appear to break one of physics’ most ...
SFGate

For birds, flocks promise safety – especially if you’re faster than your neighbor

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The late Oxford University biologist William D. Hamilton discussed the advantages of ...