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

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 ...

Raptors, with their sharp claws and strong wings, are known for hunting other creatures for food. China is home to 100 ...

Biologists, physicists, and engineers have all tried to solve the problem. One theory is that individual birds follow their neighbors' lead. There are nearly 120 species of starlings. You can find ...

Ornithologists at the Natural History Museum and UCLA are studying how smoke from the January wildfires will affect the ...

Wide-eyed bird appreciators raised their binoculars to the sky on Portland’s Sauvie Island Sunday morning to catch ever-changing scenes of wintering birds and early spring migration. Leading ...

Authorities are investigating the deaths of hundreds of birds across the inner suburbs of Newcastle, testing whether the birds died of a disease, such as bird flu, or were deliberately poisoned.

Now stored in sealed plastic bags, the sooty plumes will help answer questions about how chronic smoke exposure affects birds ...