Thank you for reading National Geographic and joining with us in the Year of the Bird. The program Planet of the Birds airs January 19 on Nat Geo WILD. Throughout 2018, look for National ...

And certainly many wild birds are usefully edible. Some of them in turn eat noxious insects and rodents. Many others perform vital roles—pollinating plants, spreading seeds, serving as food for ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... may have figured out how to attach the rings to wild birds, so it’s not always easy to tell the difference between ...

In 2016 the more than 180 parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild ... bird-watcher, but I can tell you with confidence—that hike was worth it. National ...

An advertisement for the 1994 World Cup, fast food wrappers, COVID-19 masks—what birds used to build their nests reflects a world with more plastic.

This story appears in the March 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine ... used similar techniques to study birds, but no one studying bees in the wild had done this. Hundreds of hours ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a bird market in the Mediterranean tourist town of Marsa Matruh, Egypt, I was inspecting cages crowded with wild ...

The clip of the rockhopper mom facing off with a giant sea lion comes from National Geographic's upcoming docuseries, ...

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 ...