FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(WASHINGTON, D.C.--April 16, 2024) – The National Audubon Society today celebrated bicameral legislation introduced by Senators Alex Padilla and Laphonza Butler (both...The people of Toronto are fed up with pigeons. The birds crowd around subway stations, overload balconies with poop, and build their flammable nests in hazardous places. The city has tried trapping...Shelbyville, Mo. (April 16, 2024) — The National Audubon Society proudly announces North River Ranch, owned and operated by Peter and Bess Allen, has earned distinction as an Audubon Certified...The Sonso Lagoon is a hidden paradise in the Cauca Valley, 40 minutes from Cali, the third-largest city in Colombia. At more than 5000 acres, the laguna is the largest wetland in the region...
, Home Contact About Birding Birds From the Archives Reviews Trips Home Contact About Birding Birds From the Archives Reviews Trips Birding Whooper Swans at Lake Kussharo , Hokkaido April 15, 2024 by Kai Pflug No Comments To be honest , I never cared too much for swans . On the one hand , they are very easy to see in Germany , swimming in public parks or teaching pensioners how to eat bread . On the other hand , their white color and their considerable size made me see them as somewhat arrogant birds the white Golf convertible of the bird . world Contrary to how ChatGPT would now continue this post , seeing them at Lake Kussharo did not really change this view . In winter , this lake is almost completely frozen but a few meters very close to the coast are near some hot springs , and the(Washington, DC-April 12, 2024) – The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced a rule updating the cost of doing business on public lands and helping to balance the extraction of...
WASHINGTON (April 12, 2024) – A bipartisan bill that reauthorizes and enhances a conservation program for migratory birds throughout the Americas has been introduced in the Senate. The bill, known...In September 2022, Ezra Spier contracted COVID-19. Initially mild, his symptoms continued and even worsened weeks and months later, leading to a diagnosis of long COVID. A year and a half later, the...Hayley Beal has always been around Ospreys, watching them plunge towards the surface of her grandparents’ lake, seeing them perched in beachfront mangroves, even before she knew them by that...
Originally published in the Spring 2016 issue of Living Bird; updated and expanded April 2024. Finding a bird’s nest offers a rare chance to discreetly witness the intricacies of breeding... Read more »When you think of the wild, windswept landscapes of the Western United States, which special place comes to mind?
Most likely, it’s a place like western Wyoming’s Golden Triangle, one of the...Two wildlife audio recorders were set up in Fisher River Cree Nation on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 as part of a project to study the birds that migrate through, breed, and live in the area.
The...
Home Contact About Birding Birds From the Archives Reviews Trips Home Contact About Birding Birds From the Archives Reviews Trips Birding Golden-Crowned Kinglets are Trash Birds April 9, 2024 by Jason Crotty No Comments In Portland , Oregon , the Golden-Crowned Kinglet is fairly common in appropriate habitat , particularly during migration and in winter . The eBird bar chart for the kinglet in Multnomah County , which includes Portland , is . below But this tiny , hyperactive songbird” is not found only high in the tree canopy . It also found much lower , adorning some of Portlandâ s public trash cans These practical and functional examples of public art were âdesigned by local artists and chosen in partnership with local community members.â The artist is Alex Chiu website He has alsoWASHINGTON (April 9, 2024) – The U. S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill by voice vote reauthorizing and enhancing a program that provides funding throughout the Americas for...
Home Contact About Birding Birds From the Archives Reviews Trips Home Contact About Birding Birds From the Archives Reviews Trips Birding Late Winter Birding in Munich April 6, 2024 by Luca No Comments I spent a weekend in Munich recently to visit my girlfriend and my brother . As South Germany always has different birds on offer to the area around Bonn , I had to take my camera with me . While I usually only take my binoculars on trips where birding is not really a part but I just want to make sure . I’m sure every birder knows that feeling when some bird flies past and you think to yourself , I was thinking about whether to take my binoculars and in the end decided not to I just knew I would regret it . Next time I’ll definitely bring them” . However , my main thought was that perhaps we13352
The focus of this second edition was to promote national and international best practices and build alliances through disruptive, interactive, and collaborative activities, fostering...As the weather warms up, many of us will be visiting the beach this summer. We’re not the only ones who love the sun and sand—tiny, cotton-ball-sized chicks like Western Snowy Plovers will soon...In January, we celebrated the second anniversary of the official launch of the National Bird Conservation Strategy in Chile (ENCAChile), an unprecedented collaborative platform composed of eight...
From the Spring 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. Artist Jake Messing creates lush, collage-like works that are a modern take on colorful, Baroque-era still lifes. He draws inspiration from the life-and-death... Read more »
From the Spring 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. New research indicates that strategically safeguarding just under half of Earth’s land could maintain nearly all of nature’s contributions to people—like water quality,... Read more »
From the Spring 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. Last year on October 14, ornithologist Marcelo Barbosa uploaded an eBird checklist from a farm in northern Brazil with 20 species in all,... Read more »From the Spring 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. North American Song Sparrows may have some resilience to climate change built into their genes, thanks to a remarkable adaptation that accounts for... Read more »From the Spring 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. A new day is breaking and I can hear a dawn chorus filled with parakeets, hornbills, and peafowl. My mind races with excitement,... Read more »From scanning to studying to sitting still, these easy tweaks can help you find more birds in every season.Audubon is holding events at the national, state, and local levels marking Earth Day on and around April 22 to celebrate birds and wildlife. Here are some highlights from across the U.S.:
Los...
Audubon has joined partner conservation organizations to propose “Cooperative Conservation” as an alternative for the federal Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) to study as they consider how to...Last August, the deadliest U.S. wildfires in a century raged across Maui. Sparked by severe drought, strong winds from Hurricane Dora, and downed powerlines, the fires killed more than 100 people and...WASHINGTON (March 28, 2024) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced new rules governing the implementation of the Endangered Species Act, restoring some protections that were removed under...In the last 50 years, we have seen the tragic loss of 3 billion birds in North America. While some populations of waterbirds and waterfowl have increased due to active conservation of wetlands over...Bugs are a blessing and a curse for birders. Being swarmed by a squadron of mosquitos while walking through a marsh might as well be a birding rite of passage. And what would a summer outing be...
Who's Kenn? Simply put, Kenn is a national treasure. A renowned birder, author, and conservationist, Kenn Kaufman has spent his life dedicated to observing birds, reading about...
Birdword is a recurring feature in Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. They’re sometimes called technical terms, eight-dollar-words, jargon, or just plain gobbledygook. But hidden inside those multisyllabic ornithological utterances are... Read more »As I sit by my window, admiring the beauty of two Eastern Bluebirds flitting through the trees, I am delighted to share this edition of Audubon magazine with you. It coincides with the return of our...When Nora Auston moved to a new house in Portland, Oregon, a few years ago, she’d long been thinking about building a catio. Her family had revoked roaming privileges for Bertie, “our grouchy old...