The season is turning: time for geese, swallows, and all others to relocate. With or without coconuts. You thought this would be biology’s turf, but physicists cannot resist a cool problem when they see one! Or two… The V-shape formation Many large migratory birds (geese, apparently cranes and pelicans) fly in a characteristic V-shape formation. That doesn’t look like the most intuitive way to just go around. But … Continue reading Physics and the rules of bird flocks