State-of-the-art, high-speed cameras record raptor wing and tail motions, informing researchers at UC Davis.

Slow-motion footage of baby birds helps scientists uncover how their ancestors took to the skies. Birds today make flight look effortless, but its evolution was complex. Scientists are still trying to ...

Birds have an ability to fly through obstacles by shifting their shape in flight, which is difficult to reproduce in uncrewed ...

Assistant Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Christina Harvey (front row, right) and Professor Michelle Hawkins, director of the California Raptor Center at the UC Davis School of ...

DAVIS – UC Davis has hatched up at plan to build a bird flight research center thanks to funding from the Department of Defense. The California Raptor Center at UC Davis preserves and protects birds ...

Birds today make flight look effortless, but its evolution was complex. Scientists are still trying to discover exactly how birds took to the skies, and today, a new perspective has emerged by ...