We reveal the 2024 Hummingbird Photo Contest grand prize winner. Learn the story behind the unique hummingbird picture.

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These Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest images celebrate our feathered friends Text by Tracy Scott Forson Photographs ...

Sometimes the most amazing creatures are invisible to us for decades. And then one day we look around and think, “Oh my goodness, what are these miraculous, little, flying creatures? And where have ...

Among the numerous amazing abilities of birds, there is one superhuman talent that is clearly their most striking trait: ...

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I use its electric carts due to health reasons. I wanted to buy a 25-pound bag of bird seed. I asked the woman at the service desk for help. She sent an employee named Skyler to get the bird seed ...

One photo taken from a birds-eye view of a glacier was so big that it had to be stitched together from 26 separate frames. The first-ever photo taken with a smartphone to be given a highly ...