• Start by trying to identify which species of birds come to your feeder. If that task sounds daunting, don’t worry! The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has a free, easy-to-use bird identification app.

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. ‘If you take care of the birds, you take care of most of the big problems in the world.’ That’s what Thomas ...

The offspring of a scarlet tanager and rose-breasted grosbeak—distantly related birds whose evolutionary paths diverged 10 million years ago—was recently found in Pennsylvania.