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 July 2013 issue of National Geographic ... dramatic: birds as far as the eye can see, thousands of waders, thousands of ducks, all busily feeding. Spring migration ...

Bar-tailed godwits have made this migration for thousands of years, but a clear picture of their travels has emerged only in the past few decades. Although migrations by birds have been a source ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Caged Birds After 18 years covering conflict in Rwanda, Afghanistan, and Iraq, photojournalist David Guttenfelder was ...