• The One Feeder Color That Attracts Bluebirds Like a Magnet

    Updated: 2025-07-07 17:10:46
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  • How Goldfinches Change Colors by Season

    Updated: 2025-07-07 15:58:16
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  • How Often to Clean Your Birdbath in Summer (And Why It Matters More Than You Think)

    Updated: 2025-07-07 13:59:48
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  • Birding Lodges of the World: Ecoportal de Piedra, Argentina

    Updated: 2025-07-07 11:00:00
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  • Three Photos: Kinabalu

    Updated: 2025-07-06 11:00:00
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  • The Chemistry of Birds (1): Toxic Birds

    Updated: 2025-07-06 11:00:00
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  • Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

    Updated: 2025-07-05 11:00:00
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  • Can Birds Recognize Themselves in Mirrors?

    Updated: 2025-07-04 13:10:43
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  • Species Spotlight: Malabar Pied Hornbill

    Updated: 2025-07-04 11:00:00
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  • 3 easy steps to make your garden irresistible to nuthatches

    Updated: 2025-07-04 08:47:23
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  • Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Water Year 2025 Summary

    Updated: 2025-07-03 22:29:06
    Happy New Year! Well, happy new water year, that is. Like others in South Florida, our conservation team marks the calendar by the annual rise and fall of water levels, and June 1 marked the first...

  • Best Times to Watch Birds in July (It’s Not Just Sunrise)

    Updated: 2025-07-03 16:16:18
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  • Why Some Feeders Only Work in Summer (And Which to Pack Away Soon)

    Updated: 2025-07-03 15:17:18
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  • Birds of Colorado (Top 11 with Pictures)

    Updated: 2025-07-03 14:49:36
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  • What Do Peafowl Eat?

    Updated: 2025-07-03 14:36:03
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  • 10 Fun Facts About the Bald Eagle

    Updated: 2025-07-02 23:22:12
    Whether etched on the back of a United States quarter or perched on a towering treetop, the Bald Eagle is easily one of the most recognizable birds in the world. These large and powerful raptors can...

  • Alaska’s Colville River: A Place of Plenty for Arctic Hawks and Falcons [Video]

    Updated: 2025-07-02 15:30:50
    Alaska’s Colville River is internationally recognized for its extraordinary raptor populations. The river drains much of the North Slope of Alaska as it winds more than 400 miles to the... Read more »

  • Watch A Rough-legged Hawk Mom Feed Her Chicks in Alaska

    Updated: 2025-07-02 15:27:59
    Watch as a pair of Rough-legged Hawks work together to raise their chicks in this excerpt from our documentary on the raptors of the Colville River Special Area, Alaska. Cornell... Read more »

  • Senate Budget Bill Delivers a Blow to Clean Energy, but Public Lands Sell-Off Averted

    Updated: 2025-07-02 00:11:30
    WASHINGTON (July 1, 2025) – The U.S. Senate today passed its federal budget bill, legislation that could have a lasting impact on our nation’s ability to halt the decline of migratory birds...

  • Calling all Bird Enthusiasts—Have You Seen a Banded Spoonbill?

    Updated: 2025-07-01 23:56:11
    Audubon’s Everglades Science Center team has called on bird enthusiasts across the state to search for Roseate Spoonbills and report banded birds. Staff at the center conduct weekly surveys of...

  • Everglades Action Day

    Updated: 2025-07-01 23:46:27
    On April 8, the Everglades Coalition hosted Everglades Action Day at Florida’s State Capitol. Audubon Florida staff in attendance included Senior Director of Policy Beth Alvi, Policy Associate...

  • Audubon Leads Army Corps of Engineers Tour of Lake Okeechobee

    Updated: 2025-07-01 23:41:15
    Audubon’s Kelly Cox and Paul Gray, PhD, joined colleagues at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to host Col. Brandon Bowman, District Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of...

  • State of the Everglades Spring 2025

    Updated: 2025-07-01 23:17:11
    18095 As we reflect on the progress and challenges of 2025, I’m reminded once again of the strength and dedication of the Everglades community—our partners, members, volunteers, and advocates...

  • A Bird You Need to See: the Greater Roadrunner

    Updated: 2025-07-01 07:30:00
    I heard the sound first: a strange clattering. I hadn’t even been in Arizona for 24 hours, but I'd already learned enough of the soundscape behind our Phoenix Airbnb—the Verdins, the Cactus...

  • Audubon Applauds Bipartisan Water Solution for Arizona’s Urban Areas

    Updated: 2025-06-30 23:30:10
    Lawmakers proved that they can work in a bipartisan fashion on water issues in Arizona with the passage of Senate Bill 1611, groundwater savings credit, also known as “Ag to Urban.” As we face...

  • Investing in the West’s Water Future: Why Congress Must Fully Fund the WaterSMART Program

    Updated: 2025-06-30 23:18:57
    With drought and climate pressures intensifying across the West, Audubon and partners are sounding the alarm: Congress must fully fund the Bureau of Reclamation’s WaterSMART program before it's too...

  • Funding Secured for Minnesota’s Habitat, Communities, Environment 

    Updated: 2025-06-30 21:17:58
    Before we share the news we had planned for this week, we want to pause to acknowledge the recent political violence that occurred in Minnesota. Audubon grieves with Minnesota. Our staff works...

  • Living Bird Summer 2025—Table Of Contents

    Updated: 2025-06-27 18:14:24
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  • View from Sapsucker Woods: Studies of Declines Contain Blueprints for Recovery

    Updated: 2025-06-27 18:12:40
    From the Summer 2025 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. If you haven’t already, I urge you to read the 2025 State of the Birds report for the United... Read more »

  • In Ultraviolet Light, Birds-of-Paradise Show True Colors

    Updated: 2025-06-27 18:10:49
    From the Summer 2025 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. Birds in the Paradisaeidae family—more than 40 species collectively called the birds-of-paradise—are famous for their spectacular mating dances. In... Read more »

  • A Bigger Range for the Lesser Goldfinch

    Updated: 2025-06-27 18:10:17
    From the Summer 2025 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. Lesser Goldfinch, the diminutive cousin of the familiar American Goldfinch, is found throughout the American Southwest from Texas to... Read more »

  • Gallery: Bird Art Week 2025

    Updated: 2025-06-27 18:09:44
    From the Summer 2025 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. In January, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Instagram account hosted Bird Art Week 2025—with a different guest artist featured... Read more »

  • Listening with Merlin Bird ID, I Hear the Patterns We Live By

    Updated: 2025-06-27 18:08:30
    A Merlin Bird ID user finds the app enhances more than just birding. It fosters attention, pattern recognition, even belonging.

  • Where to Go Birding Along Maryland’s C&O Canal Trail

    Updated: 2025-06-27 18:05:49
    Thousands of birders have submitted around 50,000 checklists from more than 60 eBird hotspots along the C&O Canal, racking up a total of 316 species. The canal path begins at... Read more »

  • The Power of a Connected Network

    Updated: 2025-06-27 01:46:22
    In 2022, the Migratory Bird Initiative began traveling around North America supporting the growing network of Motus stations installed by Audubon and its partners. We helped build stations in the...

  • Restoring a River, Reconnecting a Community Along the Shores of Lake Michigan

    Updated: 2025-06-26 18:43:20
    For generations, the West Branch of the Little Calumet River was a source of life, connection, and culture for communities in northwest Indiana. But over the past century, this once meandering and...

  • The Almost Impossible Mission of Studying the Lesser Yellowlegs

    Updated: 2025-06-25 03:56:45
    18072 The most distinctive feature of the Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) is its bright yellow legs, which give it its common name. However, its most impressive characteristic is the ability to...

  • Enjoy Moonlight on the Boardwalk and Half-Price Admission at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

    Updated: 2025-06-24 23:23:58
    The public is invited to experience a magical evening at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary on August 7, 2025. Under the nearly full moon, guests can explore the 2.25-mile boardwalk through an ancient bald...

  • Strength to Endure

    Updated: 2025-06-20 23:34:28
    In a 1940 issue of Audubon magazine, Ira N. Gabrielson—the first director of the newly formed U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—marveled for 10 long pages at the great concentrations of birdlife in...

  • Power of Place

    Updated: 2025-06-20 23:34:16
    Every summer, I return with my family and my siblings’ families to Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. It is a place we know by heart—where we spend a week living simply, in nature, surrounded...

  • Smart Bird Feeders Are Connecting Us to Wildlife —and Each Other—Like Never Before

    Updated: 2025-06-20 23:33:12
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  • A Remote, Protected Seabird Paradise May Soon Host a Rocket Landing Site

    Updated: 2025-06-20 19:38:00
    Of the nearly 600 national wildlife refuges in the United States, Johnston Atoll is arguably the one visitors are least likely to set foot on—unless they’re seabirds. A former military base...

  • To Solve the Mallard's Mysterious Decline, Researchers Turn to Hi-Tech Trackers

    Updated: 2025-06-20 19:24:13
    Mallards seem to be everywhere. They gather in parks and ponds, forage in farm fields, and even nest in urban planter boxes. This flexibility has helped make Mallards the most common ducks in North...

  • How a Photographer Transformed Her Yard Into a Hummingbird Portrait Studio

    Updated: 2025-06-20 19:10:11
    Wings ablur, zipping from bloom to bloom, hummingbirds rarely seem to rest. Photographer Soo Baus can relate. Between shifts as a trauma ICU nurse, Baus is usually outside, camera in hand, searching...

  • On Nebraska’s Platte River, a Migratory Bird Oasis Is Caught Up in a Water Rights Fight

    Updated: 2025-06-20 18:59:18
    On the central Platte River in Nebraska, every water drop has a purpose. Some generate electricity, irrigate farms, or meet demands downstream. Others ensure that Whooping Cranes have the habitat the...

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