An advertisement for the 1994 World Cup, fast food wrappers, COVID-19 masks—what birds used to build their nests reflects a ...

Once reviled, the Greater Adjutant stork was nearly extinct, but the conservation efforts of Dr. Purnima Devi Barman and her ...

“People tend to have an unconscious bias towards male birds, and that’s often because they’re brighter and easier to identify ...

The song of the chingolo can be heard across South America. But young songbirds were no longer learning the tunes of their ...

Pablo “Popi” García Borboroglu and Bertie Gregory have been named the 2025 Rolex National Geographic Explorers of the Year.

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If birds left tracks in the sky, what would they look like? For years Barcelona-based photographer Xavi Bou has been ...

They help the environment, but they also help our souls. In 2018 we’ll explore the wonder of birds, and why we can’t live without them. An American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) comes into ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Union for Conservation of Nature ranks the bird “least concern,” but invasive species and habitat loss ...

I’m still not much of a bird-watcher, but I can tell you with confidence—that hike was worth it. National Geographic wildlife crime reporter Rachael Bale wrote about illegal fishing in the ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a bird market in the Mediterranean tourist town of Marsa Matruh, Egypt, I was inspecting cages crowded with wild ...