This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic ... to work with a video camera, from which he extracts high-resolution photographs. After he films the birds in motion, Bou ...

In pursuit of the world’s smallest bird, we’ve come to the backyard of a flamingo pink house in Palpite, Cuba. Ornithologist Christopher Clark has a car full of gear to unload: cameras ...

In 2018 we’ll explore the wonder of birds, and why we can’t live without ... and I keep returning to the YouTube video of a crow in Russia sledding down a snowy roof on a plastic lid, flying ...

This story appears in the Spetember 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... is not your regular garden bird. If an adult male stretches up to his full height, he can look down on someone ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... of papers released in 2014 looked at the full genomes of 48 living bird species and concluded that modern birds ...

This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. As industrial-scale farms flourish in the European Union, its fields have grown quiet—robbed of the birds that ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a bird market in the Mediterranean ... ought to have been full of wintering and migrating waterfowl and waders.

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 ...