Sunday, June 11th was the biggest event of the year for the Audubon on Campus chapter at UCLA, the Bruin Birding Club. It was our very first bird-themed LGBTQ+ Pride Festival, welcoming LGBTQ+ folks...
: , , About Birds Birding Trips Blogging Conservation Destinations Inspiration Reviews Contact Reviews âThe Big Year that Flew By : Twelve Months , Six Continents , and the Ultimate Birding Recordâ June 29, 2023 by Dragan No Comments The Big Year that Flew By : Twelve Months , Six Continents , and the Ultimate Birding Record â which is the bookâ s full title , or Arjan Dwarshuisâ s Big Year , as I prefer to call it shortly , is a highly anticipated and a long awaited travelogue of the authorâ s 2016 race against time across 40 countries in his attempt to break the world birding . record The previous record was set only a year earlier by Noah Strycker . Unlike Noah , who published his big year book maybe a year after his trip , Arjanâ s travelogue appeared in English more than 5
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Every year, people around the country flock to parks, beaches, and ball games to celebrate Independence Day. Grills smolder. Pyrotechnics pop. But unless it’s done with care, all that...
In April 2022, a wildfire scorched the 15,000-acre May Ranch in southeastern Colorado—testing the sustainability of a ranching model that blends conservation, climate-change mitigation, and making a living off the land by raising cattle.Bright and cheery warblers are great photo subjects, if only they would sit still for a second. The trick is to put yourself in the right place, at the right time, with the right camera settings.The sight of a hundred thousand Purple Martins swirling across a South Carolina sky points up the enduring appeal of these gorgeous dive-bombing swallows.Probiotic products like yogurt and kombucha aim to improve our well-being by cultivating the right microbes. But new research on warblers suggests that, at least in birds, "gut flora" may owe more to evolution than to ingestion. From the Summer 2023 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. As I write this essay, speculation continues to mount across social media, in newspapers, and even in scientific journals on whether the... Read more »From the Summer 2023 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. Bald Eagles are turning some Pacific Northwest dairy farms into birding hotspots, and that turns out to be a good thing for... Read more »Short news and notes from the Summer 2023 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. Merlin Reaches Global Bird Coverage By Pat Leonard In April Merlin Bird ID launched a... Read more »From the Summer 2023 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. When the American Birding Association asked artist Liz Clayton Fuller (a former Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bartels Science Illustrator) to create a... Read more »
Another year, another fantastic Audubon Photography Awards. For the 14 installment of our annual competition, we had more than 2,200 individuals from across the United States and Canada submit almost...
About Birds Birding Trips Blogging Conservation Destinations Inspiration Reviews Contact Birding More Swamp Stories June 28, 2023 by Faraaz Abdool 2 Comments One of the interesting aspects of Trinidad’s nature is that both southern corners of the roughly boot-shaped island are dotted with wetlands . Some weeks ago , I elaborated on some of my experiences on the eastern and southeastern ends Recently we took a more social drive to the opposite southern corner , to the very end of the island where the ocean is gradually reclaiming land , road and all . Here too , the forest is interspersed with marshy habitat , and in some places considerably sized bodies of water . Trinidad’s southwestern peninsula has pockets of wet savanna that support sizeable groves of moriche palm . As such , the area**This article can also be found in English**
El río Colorado está amenazado por la sequía y el cambio climático, y Audubon está trabajando arduamente para garantizar que los cambios...WASHINGTON – This week Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA), Rep. David Joyce (R-OH), and Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) introduced bipartisan legislation, the Migratory Birds of...
: About Birds Birding Trips Blogging Conservation Destinations Inspiration Reviews Contact Birding The popstars are back : Paradise Flycatchers in Shanghai June 26, 2023 by Kai Pflug No Comments Such an embarrassingly populist title of a blog post should obviously be followed by some dry facts . Here goes : Paradise Flycatchers are a genus in the broader and rather large family of Monarchidae . There are 17 different species of them , a few of them endangered , particularly some island endemics . While most of them are non-migratory , the two that visit Shanghai are migratory : the Amur Paradise Flycatcher and the Japanese Paradise Flycatcher A characteristic of most but not all Paradise Flycatchers is the long tail of the male bird tail length is thought to be a criterion by which femalesEarlier this month, wildfire smoke originating in Quebec descended upon the eastern United States, turning skies orange and creating dangerous air quality for millions of people. The smoke has since...Whether you're a seasoned birder or just starting out, don’t overlook grassland birds.
Their plumage may not be as showy, but that doesn’t mean you won’t get a show.
In black and white...This article was originally written in 2018 and updated in June 2023.
Is the name of a river really that important? If it's the "Colorado River," absolutely. The Colorado River is a lifeline in...To create the side-by-side images that accompany contributor Allen Murabayashi’s essay below, we asked the six photographers who won 2023 Audubon Photography Awards to describe their photos in a...NEW YORK – Today the National Audubon Society announced the winners of the 2023 Audubon Photography Awards. Now in its fourteenth year, the contest features stunning work from professionals...
About Birds Birding Trips Blogging Conservation Destinations Inspiration Reviews Contact Birding Australasian Swamphens breeding near Broome June 18, 2023 by Clare M No Comments This year , with the exceptional rain and flooding across much of the land there has been a great opportunity for many bird species to move to the area and breed . It is not just the Magpie Geese and Pied Herons that arrived and chose to breed , but also the Australasian Swamphens Over recent weeks and months we have gone from observing a few Australasian Swamphens nipping back and forth across the Great Northern Highway to the south of Broome to watching a few hundred of . them Juvenile Australasian Swamphen a few weeks ago It didn’t take long and everywhere you looked there were Australasian Swamphens feeding
About Birds Birding Trips Blogging Conservation Destinations Inspiration Reviews Contact Birding What’s Up with the ABA Now June 2023 June 16, 2023 by Jason Crotty No Comments In April 2022, I wrote The American Birding Association has not had a permanent leader since November 2021. The Board of Directors has been searching for a candidate since that time , but it does not appear to have found . one This is not surprising , as the next Executive Director will take the helm of an organization that is in debt , experiencing a long-term revenue decline , and regularly runs operating deficits . The ABAâ s own accountants question whether it can continue as a going concern . Membership numbers appear stagnant These facts make it a challenging position to . fill In May 2022, the ABA announcedWhat does the industrial city of Gary, Indiana share in common with the rural lowland communities of coastal North Carolina and South Carolina? The answer: flooding, degraded wetlands, and a history...Some of the most historically significant landscapes in the U.S. South are also home to remarkable biodiversity. Bobolinks and kites still inhabit meadows and fields where Black people were once...
About Birds Birding Trips Blogging Conservation Destinations Inspiration Reviews Contact Birding How much time do you devote to birding June 15, 2023 by Dragan No Comments How much time do you devote to birding Are you happy with an occasional morning here and there or do you need more How high is birding on your list of activities â is it the very first or merely one of These are the types I : recognise Coffee Break Birding â 10-15 minutes , usually not planned ahead but squeezed out of your schedule . E.g . you have a meeting next to a park or a lake , so you come a bit earlier to see whatever may be there . It is a good option if you know that there is that one special bird . A bad option if 15 minutes is all you have and you dip it . Usually , you do not have enough time for that .As a habitat certification program, Audubon Conservation Ranching works, primarily through the practice of well-managed rotational grazing, to stabilize grassland bird populations. As indicator...
Black-headed Gulls continue to suffer as the disease spreads to Common Terns.
About Birds Birding Trips Blogging Conservation Destinations Inspiration Reviews Contact Birds The King of the Lesser Antilles June 14, 2023 by Faraaz Abdool No Comments I remember being mortified at the depiction of a hummingbird on a Caribbean Airlines jet many years ago for the bird’s very obvious aqua-hued wings . To my limited knowledge , hummingbirds all had brown wings . Granted that the airline may not have been endeavouring to uphold a scientifically accurate rendition , it still irked me . Mentions of Trinidad being the land of the hummingbird” served to further irk me later on , and the fact that the airline selected this logo to reference that makes me bring up a little bit of breakfast . Years later , having dealt with seeing that logo for considerable time , Caribbean**This article can also be found in English**
El agua siempre ha sido un tema clave en Arizona. Y aunque a menudo hablamos de la conservación del agua a nivel político o a escala de la cuenca...Seabirds are one of the most threatened bird groups across the globe, with approximately 30 percent of species at enhanced risk of extinction. Invasive predators at breeding sites, habitat loss, and...Spring in the Northern Hemisphere is a magical time when nature puts on a show like no other. The brilliance of spring migration is a sight to behold as neotropical migrants grace our backyards...