If you keep a list of birds seen in a calendar year, it’s a happy challenge to look at the blank slate that Jan. 1 brings.

Meet the woodpecker with a puzzling moniker and a big appetite for suet. Learn what a red-bellied woodpecker looks like and ...

Learn what a house finch looks like and how to attract one. Find out facts about the house finch nest, eggs, range, habitat ...

The bumpy-faced waterfowl can be found across the United States, but in almost all cases the birds are domestic versions of ...

Some species are at their most active in winter, whether they’re flying, feeding, or mating. From elephant seals in ...

There were eight of us from different walks of life. One of us was 80 years old, another just 20. We had one task: to count ...

Big Garden Birdwatch is the world’s largest garden wildlife survey. Each year, on the last weekend of January, hundreds of ...

The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic ...

Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff ...

Birds on Niagara – an annual international birding festival – is set to take place from Thursday, February 12 to Monday, February 16. In advance of the festival, organizers have posted the schedule, ...

When tropicbirds and other seabirds are not nesting, they mostly stay out at sea, so you aren’t likely to see them unless you ...