• Best bird identification and guidebook: National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America 7th Edition The best bird-watching gear for beginners ...

Last seen in 1944, the bird has stoked nearly eight decades of hopeful searches. Now, it’s officially, depressingly “extinct.” Collected by scientists between 1869 and 1914, the world’s ...

This is the year of mocha mousse, according to Pantone. The company's annual color craze originates in part from the work of a 19th-century ornithologist who described the dizzying array of bird ...

• 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 ...

For the new study, researchers collected the biggest dataset so far on the Amazon’s resident birds, representing 77 non-migratory species and spanning the 40 years from 1979 to 2019.

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 ...

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.

In this excerpt from her new book Tree Notes: A Year in the Company of Trees, National Geographic Explorer Nalini M. Nadkarni reveals how tiny “windows” in the bark of trees help them respire.

This bird’s drumming on his body lures the ladies. ... This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Many a suitor puffs out his chest hoping to impress the ladies.