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 ...

Frigatebirds skim fish from the surface of the water or chase other birds, forcing them to give up their recent meal ...

If it reflects the sky and clouds, birds don’t realize they ... whole window in a grid that is small enough to deter even ...

The ornithology curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County placed handfuls of feathers between two small screens and ... smoke exposure affects birds, and what exactly the animals ...

Biologists, physicists, and engineers have all tried to solve the problem. One theory is that individual birds follow their neighbors' lead. There are nearly 120 species of starlings. You can find ...

Ornithologists at the Natural History Museum and UCLA are studying how smoke from the January wildfires will affect the region’s birds ... of feathers between two small screens and clipped ...

Fall migration runs between August 1 and November 30. Peak spring migration is in April. Birds are on the move as their annual spring migration begins. Radar tracking allows you to follow along to ...

Wide-eyed bird appreciators raised their binoculars to the sky on Portland’s Sauvie Island Sunday morning to catch ever-changing scenes of wintering birds and early spring migration. Leading ...