These birds also lend their name to a colorful flower. South Africa's bird-of-paradise (Strelitzia reginae) is a member of the banana family. It sports a beautiful flower believed to resemble the ...

Photograph by Joel Sartore/National Geographic High in the ... of blue and yellow that creates the bird’s brilliant green plumage. Nature intended this color to protect the parrot, but it ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... an entire cast of noisy and colorful birds that, before long, could keep flying under the radar and into extinction.

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a bird market in the Mediterranean ... Enjoyment of a colorful species with a vast summer and winter range is thus ...

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 ...