For more information, check out the Project Feeder Watch website: feederwatch.org. Help kids identify birds they see with this downloadable U.S. state bird map.

While these may not be ideal binoculars for looking at birds, they are better than no binoculars at all. A small notebook and a pencil are useful, but not essential. Encourage the kids to jot ...

Prized as game birds and reared for their meat and eggs, these stout-bodied birds often have short, rounded wings because they spend most of their time on the ground. Their thick legs and big feet ...

These colors distinguish them as some of the world's most dramatic and attractive birds. Males often sport vibrant feathered ruffs or amazingly elongated feathers, which are known as wires or ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a bird market in the Mediterranean ... but they don’t care. Even the kids are doing it. School starts in September ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nestled among white-sand beaches and brightly colored resorts, the mangrove swamps along Mexico’s Yucatán coast are a ...

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 ...

They help the environment, but they also help our souls. In 2018 we’ll explore the wonder of birds, and why we can’t live without them. An American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) comes into ...

This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... analogy—because flying is to birds what walking is to humans—but the kids get the point. Like other long-haul ...