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 ...
Hundreds of dead birds have reportedly been falling from the sky in dystopian scenes in Pennsylvania. The culprit is thought to be the H5N1 bird flu strain that has been devastating poultry and da ...
Arkansas officials are investigating after nearly 1,000 dead blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year's Eve. Officers with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission found bodies of the birds ...
As many as 750,000 birds join together in flight. The birds spread out and come together. The flock splits apart and fuses together again. Murmurations constantly change direction, flying up a few ...
They became obsessed with birds. "We'd lie on the ground, watching the elegant curves in the sky," they say. "The head would spin. Have you ever felt vertigo looking into the sky?" Sen ...
Flying slowly and silently through the night sky, barn owls are majestic nocturnal ... Negro said the owl’s ability to fly in complete silence, a trait that helps it approach prey in stealth ...
Frigatebirds skim fish from the surface of the water or chase other birds, forcing them to give up their recent meal ...
She said: "It was really traumatic, on the road there were quite a few dead birds. Blood splattered everywhere. I saw a flash in the sky about an hour previously. "It was like something out of a ...