Males are as beautiful ... Dhalaria, a National Geographic explorer, watched and filmed the bird for 35 minutes, one of the longest documented jujurana sightings in the wild.

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic ... birds abroad, breeders must now prove to CITES inspectors that their African grays are raised in captivity, not caught in the wild.

South Africa's bird-of-paradise (Strelitzia reginae) is a member of the banana family. It sports a beautiful flower believed to resemble the avian bird of paradise in flight.

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 March 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine ... used similar techniques to study birds, but no one studying bees in the wild had done this. Hundreds of hours ...

Thank you for reading National Geographic and joining with us in the Year of the Bird. The program Planet of the Birds airs January 19 on Nat Geo WILD. Throughout 2018, look for National ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tune in to Panda Babies: Mission Critical on August 28 at 8 p.m. ET on Nat Geo WILD to follow their development at ...