do birds fly at night?

Answer 1

During spring, most birds sleep during the night, except for nocturnal species like owls, etc like some other people have mentioned. BUT, during the fall and winter, when birds are migrating...many will fly at night. The night allows them cooler temperatures so that they will be less likely to dehydrate, and there are actually less predators such as hawks flying at night, therefore it is safer to fly at night.

Answer 2

what kind of birds the other two answers are true but i have heard lots of birds chriping in the night i have also seen them flying around it is weird to see them cause u really never do see day birds out in the night i can say than yeah birds do fly out in the night.

Answer 3

Of course, there wings dont dissapear. Have you ever heard about the owl? Its a bird that can fly at night. So there you go.

Answer 4

Some do some dont. But when i say some don't its usaully because they sleep at night and are not good at seeing in the dark, for example parrots. But if they feel in danger or a scared for some reason they will tend to take there chance and fly away.

The ones that do are night dwellers like owls.

Answer 5

Nocturnal birds fly at night, like owls. Diurnal bird (those awake during the day ... most birds) nest at night. Generally you will not see many birds flying after dusk. You mainly see bats at that point on.

Answer 6

If the birds have been migrating then they could gain this with nutrients of their abdomen. those birds had none. so as that probably ability they weren't migrating yet have been disturbed by ability of something. Fireworks? unlikely. Birds are not quite bothered by ability of loud noises at night. If those birds left at night the trend of loss of existence became too mounted for it to be merely "working into residences". Million fish lifeless in chesapeake? they say "that's quite chilly" yet...is it chilly in brazil now? Nope...their iciness would not start up until eventually June. So easily you have a chain of incidents unrelated to climate or currents (curiously) that are killing off the backside of the marine nutrients chain and particular birds (yet no longer others).

Answer 7

Some sleep. As mentioned Owls do as they hunt at night. The Whippoorwill is a night bird.

Answer 8

i just came home from Australia and I am very confused. I saw seagulls flying high over the Opera House at night and during the day I saw huge bats in Cairns flying during the day. Can anyone explain????

Answer 9

The primary reason that our feathered friends migrate South in the Fall, or North in the Spring, does not solely lie in the cold of winter, as most are well-equipped to survive in extreme temperatures, but instead lies with the upcoming shortage of food. Mother Nature endowed birds with an internal clock that warns them to get out-of-town, or to face possible starvation. Because birds can to detect seasonal changes, they take note when the days become shorter, and fly South in search of alternate food sources, only to return home again in the Spring when there is an abundance of tasty insects, or small, scurrying rodents.
An additional trigger for birds to migrate is the need to breed to repopulate their species. Often, they return in the spring to procreate in the exact nesting spot they vacated in the fall. Birds certainly do qualify as creatures of habit!
The streamlined, aerodynamic birds go to great lengths to make their migratory trips, sometimes flying as far as to other continents, or from the lowlands to the highlands, or from the interior of a country to the seashore. The Arctic tern holds the long-distance medal for travel, as he travels from Antarctica to Massachusetts, logging up to 22,000 miles in stretches of up to 1,000 miles per week. Unfortunately, he does not rack up frequent flyer miles! Most land-lubbers make puddle-jumper like flights, with the exception of the American Golden Plover, who undertakes a non-stop, direct flight over the open expanse of ocean, from Nova Scotia to South America, without making one pit-stop!
For some reason, most migratory birds schedule their annual departure and return dates close to, or on the same day, as in the previous year. Their timing, however, is not exact, as is the case with the legendary swallows of Capistrano, California. Reportedly, their annual migration begins like clockwork on October 23, and ends with their return on March 19. The legendary swallows sometimes do disappoint and vary their migratory schedule, much to the chagrin of the California Division of Tourism!
No scientific certainty exists as to how migratory birds establish their flight plans or patterns. They are not blessed with the bat's radar system, so fly-by-night birds have no physical landmarks to guide them, and those who make overseas flights have no landmarks to go by, even during the daylight hours. The most prevalent, plausible theory is that migratory birds sense the magnetic fields that surround the earth, and guide their flights by these lines, which stretch from North to South. How else would young birds, who have logged no flight miles, successfully complete their migrations, especially in light of the fact that their mothers leave them in the dust, and begin their migrations first? Whatever the reason, neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these birds from the swift completion of their annual migrations! I hope this helps . good question . -B-

Answer 10

owls are birds so the anwser is yes