This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a bird market in the Mediterranean ... all busily feeding. Spring migration, always awe-inspiring, had never seemed ...

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 May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... located along a major avian migration route, offer safe haven to the millions of birds that make fraught ...

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 ...

The striking rose-breasted grosbeak is a common bird of wooded habitats across much ... Late in the summer and during migration, it often feeds in fruiting trees. Monotypic. Length 8".