This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If birds left tracks in the ... who took this photo in the agrarian village of Arbeca, Spain.

For centuries, researchers have pondered how starlings travel in those gorgeous shape-shifting clouds. The answers continue to surprise them.

This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... “That’s boring. Every photo of a hummingbird that can be taken, has been taken.” I wish we’d been more ...

Our photographers have spent literally years immersed in the sequestered worlds of Sami reindeer herders, Japanese geisha, and New Guinea birds ... photography. The images in National Geographic ...

Cary Wolinsky and Bob Caputo have a combined 64 years of experience photographing stories for National Geographic and other ... and illustrated text, imparts photo-making tips with insight ...

Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings. Birds are found worldwide and ...

PHILIPPINE EAGLE FOUNDATION, DAVAO CITY, PHILIPPINES This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Consider the shoebill, whose photo opens this article. It’s a ...

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 June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sometimes the sounds of a vocalist warming up drift through the lush aviaries of Umgeni River Bird Park. The prima donna ...