Can you get bird flu from eggs? Here are the answers to all your pressing questions.
We talked to experts about where the science is on risks to humans and how the virus is messing with the food supply.
These matchmakers will find you the perfect mate—if you’re an owl
A small population of California burrowing owls is getting a helping hand when it comes to romance—from a team of devoted ...
This monstrous mama laid the world’s largest egg
An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic ...
What can save the desert's most tenacious birds? Tiny underground apartments.
In the vast urban sprawl of Arizona, the habitat of the tiny western burrowing owl is being destroyed—prompting ...
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Unlocking the Secrets Behind the Hummingbird's Frenzy
His hummingbird photographs were first published in the November 1960 issue of National Geographic. For a study of male Cuba’s bee hummingbirds’ mating displays, scientists captured the birds ...
Indian scientists are saving a rare bird — by getting them to mate with dummies
The great Indian bustard is critically endangered, but the Indian government has found a clever way of breeding the species ...
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Industrial Farming a Cause of Plummeting Bird Populations
This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. As industrial-scale farms flourish in the European Union, its fields have grown quiet—robbed of the birds that ...
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Think ‘Birdbrain’ Is an Insult? Think Again.
Birds, it turns out ... This story appears in the February 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The American crows in Gabriella Mann’s Seattle Neighborhood love her, and the eight ...