Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off ...

A new study shows that one group of Galápagos yellow warblers responds to intruders more aggressively than others. It adds ...

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 ...

In suburban Sydney, sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) previously figured out how to break into garbage bins and ...

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. A coot bird in London on a nest made of twigs ...

The birds also sing slightly different songs: While the superb makes a loud squawking noise, the Vogelkop has a more pleasant, tonal call. Scholes and Laman—a National Geographic explorer ...

As spring begins, so does a fresh song at daybreak, unique to the season. Just before the sun rises, birds start singing their melodies, creating a chirpy symphony. “It's the epitome of spring ...

Funding also impacts which birds get studied, and in the U.S., that future is unclear. The Trump administration recently instructed the National Science Foundation, which funds a lot of basic ...