Navigational Patterns: Birds in Flight Formations
Bird flight formations are the visible geometry of collective travel: energy-saving V-shapes and echelons, and shape-shifting starling murmurations. Beneath the pattern runs navigation, a light-sensitive magnetic compass, time-compensated sun and star cues, and learned maps that together steer whole flocks across hemispheres, often without a single fixed leader. Published: June 5, 2026. Last reviewed: June […]
Crop Circles: The Animal Connection
By Dr. Wren Ashby · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 8, 2026. Crop Circles and the Animal Connection: What the Field Record Shows Most flattened-cereal crop circles in southern English wheat are anthropogenic, traceable to the 1991 admission by Doug Bower and Dave Chorley and the artists who […]