A new international conservation strategy aims to secure the future of the Critically Endangered Javan Green Magpie by tackling illegal trapping, protecting remaining habitat and laying the ...

Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions.

Like many people, I have always thought pigeons to be annoying, dirty germ-carriers that bully away smaller, prettier birds. But Brian Buckbee’s memoir “We Should All Be Birds” has changed my ...

Warming Pacific waters and El Niño could disrupt California marine food webs, raising risks for seabirds, fisheries and coastal ecosystems.

Life’s too short for small talk. Rachel gets right to the questions that matter most. Once a week, famous guests pull questions from a deck of cards and open up about the kind of stuff we all think ...

July 2, 2026 • For Danny McBride, success in Hollywood has taken patience, hard work, and a little bit of delusion. That sense of delusion is also present in the characters he writes, who embody the ...

Discover the thick billed parrot, North America’s endangered parrot, with its striking colors and dwindling wild population.

This story appears in the April 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. All across the nation, in Americans’ backyards and garages and living rooms, in their beds and basements and bathrooms, wild ...

The African jacana is a remarkable bird that cares deeply about its young. Given the dangers beneath the water they walk through, they carry their babies under their wings. When they carry their ...