The bat—a greater noctule (Nyctalus lasiopterus)—was equipped with a high-tech tag recording its behavior. “There was this ...

Europe’s largest bat hunts and eats birds midair, finally solving a 25-year mystery about how these nocturnal predators ...

Gonzalez and Buster were park of the Hawktober event, held at Dos Picos County Park in Ramona on Oct. 18. Hawktober at the ...

The recording gives it away. First, a sudden plunge in altitude, then distressed bird calls before a prolonged series of ...

While some bugs have evolved the ability to detect these comparatively low-frequency ultrasound triangulations, birds have ...

For the first time, scientists documented direct evidence of a bat preying on a bird at high altitude. During spring and fall migrations, billions of birds take to the night skies. The high-altitude ...

Smithsonian contributing writer Jim Robbins about what aeroecology is telling us about the ecosystem above.A transcript is ...

After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe's largest bat doesn't just eat small birds—it ...

But other animals also migrate. Among the mammals, several kinds of bats, our only winged mammal, will seek insects farther ...

"They definitely enjoy eating that type of fish," Brittany Green, a volunteer who helps care for the birds, told the news ...