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 birds left tracks in the sky, what would they look like? For years Barcelona-based photographer Xavi Bou has been ...

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 ...

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 ...