Taken all together, the flight paths of birds bind the planet together like 100 billion filaments, tree to tree and continent to continent. There was never a time when the world seemed large to them.

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 ...

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 ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Scientists have been studying the birds elsewhere on the islands to gauge how long-term changes in their fish diet ...

We must do our best to care for our planet, because we’re the ones responsible. Bernstein is too busy watching birds—safely, through our living room window. Noah Strycker is a bird-watcher ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic ... Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss ...

For this month’s story about microplastics—part of National Geographic’s Planet or Plastic ... for 95 percent of Hawaiian seabirds. Are birds ingesting plastic with their flying fish ...