Note: These sites make up the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership’s Flyway Site Network, which aims to protect migratory waterbirds along the flyway. They were selected for supporting ...

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 ...

An interactive map traces the spring 2025 migration north of hummingbirds. The birds are projected to arrive in Michigan later this spring. Michigan bird lovers, now's your chance to keep an eye ...

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Some more recently-evolved feather adaptations, like the asymmetry in the flight feathers that allows birds to fly, are easier to change, and thus disappear relatively quickly once birds no longer ...

Birds today make flight look effortless, but its evolution was complex. Scientists are still trying to discover exactly how birds took to the skies, and today, a new perspective has emerged by ...

Frigatebirds can remain in the air for months at a time by taking advantage of air currents and tropical cloud formations. If there were an endurance record for bird species, the little-known ...

Air flows in cities are highly complex, with areas of updraught and downdraught. It appears gulls are able to take advantage of the complex air flow to reduce the cost of their flight and have no ...