• Does bird seed go bad and how long does it last?

    Updated: 2025-01-31 15:33:17
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  • In Research, Ignoring Female Birds Harms Scientific Understanding

    Updated: 2025-01-31 01:09:00
    NEW YORK (January 30, 2025) -- A new published study by several Audubon scientists shows that improving identification and observation of female birds can help scientists conserve birds and their...

  • Species Spotlight: Blyth’s Hornbill

    Updated: 2025-01-31 00:00:46
    : Home About Contact Privacy Policy Ask a Birder Bird Guides Birder's Lists Birding Birding Lodges From the Archives Species Spotlight Three Photos Home About Contact Privacy Policy Ask a Birder Bird Guides Birder’s Lists Birding Birding Lodges From the Archives Species Spotlight Three Photos Species Spotlight Species Spotlight : Blyth’s Hornbill January 31, 2025 by Kai Pflug No Comments Halmahera is at the Eastern end of the range of Blyth’s Hornbill this range is quite large and also covers the whole of Papua New Guinea . That makes it a hornbill species listed as Least concern , a nice change from many other hornbill species of the 62 hornbill species profiled in the HBW , less than half are in this category while more than one third are in the three highest categories Critically

  • Audubon Secures $750,000 to Advance Conservation and Education Efforts

    Updated: 2025-01-30 01:03:42
    (Gibbon, NE and Bremen, ME – January 29, 2025)— The National Audubon Society is proud to announce a $750,000 award from explore.org, a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation, to...

  • Airport Birding

    Updated: 2025-01-30 00:00:58
    Home About Contact Privacy Policy Ask a Birder Bird Guides Birder's Lists Birding Birding Lodges From the Archives Species Spotlight Three Photos Home About Contact Privacy Policy Ask a Birder Bird Guides Birder’s Lists Birding Birding Lodges From the Archives Species Spotlight Three Photos Birding Lists Airport Birding January 30, 2025 by Editor No Comments International birding usually requires passing through an airport or two , interrupted by several hours of birdless flying – the worst version of flying possible . Whereas the flight can be made more enjoyable by studying the field guide or listening to bird calls , the airports are a different matter . Some are actively anti-bird while others resemble windowless bus terminals . There are some notable exceptions , but beware :

  • Is it ok to throw bird seed on the ground? Ground feeding birds

    Updated: 2025-01-29 21:23:45
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  • Lost In France…In The Caribbean

    Updated: 2025-01-29 18:00:00
    Home About Contact Privacy Policy Ask a Birder Bird Guides Birder's Lists Birding Birding Lodges From the Archives Species Spotlight Three Photos Home About Contact Privacy Policy Ask a Birder Bird Guides Birder’s Lists Birding Birding Lodges From the Archives Species Spotlight Three Photos Birding Lost In France In The Caribbean January 29, 2025 by Faraaz Abdool 1 Comment I’m sure hoping that at least one person noticed my missing post this month I was on a blitz of the Lesser Antilles , leading a group of ten mostly grumpy birders on a search for every last endemic of this heavily under-birded region . These islands are largely known for their pristine beaches bordered by fifty shades of perfect blue , yet we were after their emerald hearts . Verdant and often volcanic forests coated

  • Why Do Birds Chirp at Sunset & During The Night?

    Updated: 2025-01-29 11:13:11
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  • Fix Our Forests Act Advances in Congress, Spotlighting the Growing Wildfire Risk to Forests and Communities, But Further Improvements Needed

    Updated: 2025-01-29 04:48:54
    WASHINGTON (January 28, 2025) – Wildfire is a growing risk and every year it consumes millions of acres of forests and grasslands, devastating communities, local businesses, and the natural...

  • Follow that Bird! How Drones Are Helping Scientists Track Wildlife

    Updated: 2025-01-29 02:24:29
    The sun hasn’t yet risen over Montana’s Blackfoot Valley, but Laura Dykstra has already hiked miles in the dark—through lumpy, ankle-breaking fields, over creeks, fences, and barbed wire. She...

  • Ask a Birder: Soup Duck

    Updated: 2025-01-29 00:00:40
    : Home About Contact Privacy Policy Ask a Birder Bird Guides Birder's Lists Birding Birding Lodges From the Archives Species Spotlight Three Photos Home About Contact Privacy Policy Ask a Birder Bird Guides Birder’s Lists Birding Birding Lodges From the Archives Species Spotlight Three Photos Ask a Birder Species Spotlight Ask a Birder : Soup Duck January 29, 2025 by Peter No Comments Last month we received an inquiry about a strange duck from one of our Florida readers . At first glance , a prime topic for the Ask a Birder series but also an opportunity to delve a bit deeper . There†s plenty to learn about ducks . Their breeding habits raunchy and randy were oft-mentioned words in our editorial discussions and their evolutionary biology . Enough to warrant an in-depth look beyond the

  • 7 Reasons Why Blue Jays Might Peck at Wood

    Updated: 2025-01-28 08:39:18
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  • Long Overlooked and Understudied, the Fish Crow Is Worth Your Attention

    Updated: 2025-01-28 02:03:26
    What bird is more familiar than the crow? Across nearly the entire continental United States the clever and sociable corvids are ubiquitous, and they reward the close observer with their antics. But...

  • 14 Tips to keep bird seed from sprouting on your lawn

    Updated: 2025-01-27 11:06:41
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  • 21 Birds with Long Beaks (includes original photography)

    Updated: 2025-01-27 07:48:52
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  • Is It Audobon or Audubon?

    Updated: 2025-01-25 01:44:42
    Hello, and welcome to the National Audubon Society's website. Maybe you got here by accident, or perhaps you were earnestly trying to figure out how to spell our name. No matter why you're here...

  • How do birds know when you fill the bird feeder?

    Updated: 2025-01-24 13:20:05
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  • Flock Together for the Great Backyard Bird Count

    Updated: 2025-01-24 08:36:18
    NEW YORK, NY—Share in the joy of birds during the annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) and help make your community stronger for you and the birds. Bird and nature lovers everywhere unite in the...

  • Best Bird Sounds: Our Favorite Macaulay Library Audio Recordings 2025

    Updated: 2025-01-23 20:44:17
    In 2024, birders uploaded more than 470,000 sound recordings to the Macaulay Library archive. Here are some of our favorites from the year.

  • How to Record Bird Sounds [Bird Academy Course]

    Updated: 2025-01-23 20:10:22
    In 2024, birders uploaded more than 470,000 sound recordings to the Macaulay Library archive. Here are some of our favorites from the year.

  • 10 Fruits you should be feeding backyard birds including Grapes, Apples and Oranges

    Updated: 2025-01-23 17:02:52
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  • 15 Yellow and Black Birds (with original photography)

    Updated: 2025-01-22 14:27:41
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  • Ninth Circuit Upholds Decision in Favor of Greater Sage-grouse Habitat

    Updated: 2025-01-18 04:24:28
    14672 SAN FRANCISCO (January 17, 2025) -- The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a 2020 district court decision that struck down the basis for oil and gas leasing on more than a million...

  • Responsible Offshore Wind Development is a Clear Win for Birds, the U.S. Economy, and our Climate

    Updated: 2025-01-18 02:00:00
    Too often, the debate over climate solutions centers on perceived trade-offs between habitat conservation and the clean energy transition, preserving community and allowing development, or reducing...

  • Where Do Hummingbirds Go in the Winter?

    Updated: 2025-01-17 23:43:11
    It’s so hard to imagine how a bird that weighs as little as a few pennies can withstand a cross-country migration that people have invented myths to explain it. According to one particularly...

  • Conservation, Sporting Groups Urge Bureau of Land Management to Finish Habitat Management Plans for Greater Sage-Grouse 

    Updated: 2025-01-17 03:47:01
    (Washington, D.C., January 16, 2025)— The Bureau of Land Management on Thursday announced finalized Resource Management Plans for Colorado and Oregon that represent an important step forward in...

  • The Audubon Photography Awards Expands to Chile and Colombia

    Updated: 2025-01-16 01:00:00
    NEW YORK / SANTIAGO / BOGOTA (January 15, 2025) – Audubon today announced that the 2025 Audubon Photography Awards is expanding to include submissions from Chile and Colombia in addition to the...

  • What the Audubon Photography Awards Expansion to Chile and Colombia Means for Audubon

    Updated: 2025-01-16 01:00:00
    Birds like the Blackburnian Warbler and Red Knot illustrate how birds connect people across the Western Hemisphere. Blackburnian Warblers migrate from Canada’s Boreal Forest to Colombia’s...

  • Our Favorite Fascinating Bird Behaviors From the 2024 Audubon Photo Awards

    Updated: 2025-01-15 01:38:52
    “To be is to do.” Socrates said that once. Or maybe he didn’t, since the quote has been attributed to many others as well. Birds don’t care about such questions; sometimes they seem content...

  • Remembering Emma Greig, Project FeederWatch Leader

    Updated: 2025-01-14 23:12:00
    We’re heartbroken to share the news that a beloved staff member, Dr. Emma Greig, passed away last month from cancer at the age of 43. Emma grew up in Michigan,... Read more »

  • Titmice Galore and a Red-tailed Record: Tallying Central Park's 125th Christmas Bird Count

    Updated: 2025-01-10 00:28:05
    Just before 8 a.m. on Sunday, December 15, a crowd is gathering at the southeast rim of the reservoir in New York City’s Central Park. Most are bundled in puffer coats, huddled together in...

  • Audubon Report Offers Solutions for Offshore Wind Development for Birds and Communities

    Updated: 2025-01-09 01:00:00
    NEW YORK (January 8, 2025) — The National Audubon Society today released Birds and Offshore Wind: Developing the Offshore Wind that Birds Need, a report that makes the case for responsibly sited...

  • President Carter was an enthusiastic birder and an early champion for climate action

    Updated: 2025-01-08 21:34:34
    As the nation remembers President Jimmy Carter, it bears mentioning by this organization that among his many attributes and achievements in public service, Jimmy Carter was a lifelong birder. He...

  • In January 2025, Win a Gift Certificate to a Cornell Lab Bird Academy Course

    Updated: 2025-01-07 22:10:00
    We’re heartbroken to share the news that a beloved staff member, Dr. Emma Greig, passed away last month from cancer at the age of 43. Emma grew up in Michigan,... Read more »

  • Audubon Celebrates Designation of Chuckwalla National Monument as a Major Victory for Birds and Communities

    Updated: 2025-01-07 20:56:12
    WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 7, 2025) – The National Audubon Society today celebrated the designation of more than 624,000 acres of California desert as the Chuckwalla National Monument, public lands...

  • January 2025 eBirder of the Month Challenge

    Updated: 2025-01-07 15:23:00
    We’re heartbroken to share the news that a beloved staff member, Dr. Emma Greig, passed away last month from cancer at the age of 43. Emma grew up in Michigan,... Read more »

  • President Signs Bipartisan ACE Act into Law, Supporting Wetlands and Bird Conservation

    Updated: 2025-01-06 22:47:27
    WASHINGTON (December 23, 2024) – Vital programs for conserving bird habitats and ecosystems across the country were reauthorized with President Biden signing into law the bipartisan America’s...

  • Avian Influenza Outbreak: Should You Take Down Your Bird Feeders?

    Updated: 2025-01-03 23:25:47
    Originally published April 2022. Updated through January 2025 to reflect further developments in the outbreak. Many people are concerned about the outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu, that began... Read more »

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