These migration ... JESKE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE, YOUR SHOT Godwits, like other migratory species, don’t rely just on their own power; they also take advantage of winds. The birds tend ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a bird market in the Mediterranean ... all busily feeding. Spring migration, always awe-inspiring, had never seemed ...

Most people think of migration as the seasonal movement of a flock of birds between their breeding ... is an adaptive response to the seasonal or geographic variation of resources (Gauthreaux ...