Invisible menace: Methane flares scorching birds at U.S. landfills Invisible menace: Methane flares scorching birds at U.S. landfills It All Started With a Few Trout. Now Yellowstone’s Iconic ...

Like other owls, these birds have an incredible digestive system. They sometimes swallow their prey whole and later regurgitate pellets composed of bone, fur, and the other unwanted parts of their ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... but there is always a bycatch of small birds and even of the falcons that prey on them. At sundown in Baltim, walking ...

A Steller’s sea eagle was spotted in Terra Nova National Park in Canada, thousands of miles from its home in Far East Asia.

These colors distinguish them as some of the world's most dramatic and attractive birds. Males often sport vibrant feathered ruffs or amazingly elongated feathers, which are known as wires or ...

Prized as game birds and reared for their meat and eggs, these stout-bodied birds often have short, rounded wings because they spend most of their time on the ground. Their thick legs and big feet ...

Some of the larger galago species will even hunt small animals, such as frogs and birds. Many galago species look so similar, it’s difficult to tell them apart by sight alone. Instead ...

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 ...

Although most male birds are flashier than their female ... This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sometimes the sounds of a vocalist warming up drift through ...

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Varanus komodoensis dines on prey as large as deer, wild boar, and water buffalo. As formidable as the Komodo ...