Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings. Birds are found worldwide and ...

The song of the chingolo can be heard across South America. But young songbirds were no longer learning the tunes of their ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sometimes the sounds of a vocalist warming up drift through the lush aviaries of Umgeni River Bird Park. The prima donna ...

PHILIPPINE EAGLE FOUNDATION, DAVAO CITY, PHILIPPINES This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... who’d never heard of those animals to commit to protecting ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The picture emerging now shows animals that looked very much like modern birds, flying and diving and pecking in ...

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 ...

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National ... carnivorous birds. After the meal, it’s time to play. Two one-year-olds pick on a pup. Such play allows the animals to bond and ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a bird market in the Mediterranean ... less joyful when you think about the animals you’re killing.” ...

In December 2017, after a National Geographic investigative ... But we know that animals feel pain. All mammals have a similar neuroanatomy. Birds, reptiles, and amphibians all have pain receptors.