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 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 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 ...

This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Animal migration is a phenomenon ... a nice smelly herring offered from a bird-watcher's boat in Monterey Bay.

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. ‘If you take care of the birds, you take care of most of the big problems in the world.’ That’s what Thomas ...

Breeding: nests in a variety of habitats, including suburban neighborhoods. Migration: birds in the northern portion of range and at higher elevations migrate south during fall and winter.

Favored microhabitats include clearings, edges, residential neighborhoods. Migration: most birds in North America migratory. Major spring movement follows that of the winter wren; major fall ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... located along a major avian migration route, offer safe haven to the millions of birds that make fraught ...

This bird made hawk-watching famous. Thousands of birders gather to watch the annual fall migration of broad-winged hawks. They start in September in New England, traveling down the Appalachian ...

Common. Breeding: deciduous woodlands, primarily riparian areas. Migration: western birds have prolonged spring migration (early March–late May). Eastern subspecies a circum-Gulf migrant ...