Birds orient in part by the moon and the stars, Gentry said, making them attracted to light. Bright urban environments can draw them in, and it can be deadly: nearly 1,000 birds died one night ...

An important direction for future research is to characterize how birds orient their eyes to detect and avoid collisions with windows, so that collision deterrents can be designed optimally to ...

An important direction for future research is to characterize how birds orient their eyes to detect and avoid collisions with windows, so that collision deterrents can be designed optimally to ...

The team put one type of tracer dye into the eyes and another in a region of the brain called Cluster N, which is most active when birds orient themselves. When the birds got their bearings ...

Many of these birds will orient themselves in the direction that they would normally be traveling at that time of year. Researchers say that the fact that the birds know both when and where to ...