(April 25, 2024) WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final rule to limit pollution from coal and new natural gas-fired power plants, which will help slow...
Home Contact About Birding Birds From the Archives Reviews Trips Home Contact About Birding Birds From the Archives Reviews Trips Birding Birding Beyond 60 April 25, 2024 by Paul Lewis 1 Comment This week , I once again found myself car-challenged . So I went to another nearby site , Las Mesas which did not offer any unusual narrative . Instead , in this post I will wax philosophical , while sharing a few nice photos from that . outing Clay-colored Sparrows In about a month , I will have my 66th birthday . In between now and then , I will spend a week and a half in California , in the land where birding may mean walking on paved paths , or even on a wooden boardwalk built through the middle of a salt marsh . But once I get back home to Mexico , I will be climbing hills on livestock trails
Conventional wisdom holds that traveling and breeding are two separate phases of a migratory bird’s annual cycle. After all, flying hundreds or even thousands of miles burns an awful lot of...Today, Audubon joined the White House, states, Tribes, municipalities, and other NGOs to support freshwater restoration in communities across the country. Birds and people need clean water and...
About 23 million acres of tundra lakes and wetlands, set aside more than 100 years ago as the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, are today treasured for their global importance to migratory bird populations and climate stability.
In Colorado, my home, we are already living with the effects from climate change – from record flooding, early snowmelt and unheard-of winter wildfires. These impacts have serious implications...
On a bright November day in Baja California, Mexico, biologist Julian Garcia-Walther crouched in the cordgrass of a marsh, his face pressed to a scope. He’d spent all morning on the edge of...
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We developed a set of tools designed to address human disturbance on shorebirds and their habitats to promote the recovery of shorebird populations that are declining in the Americas. This...WASHINGTON (April 19, 2024)—The National Audubon Society today praised the Senate for passing bipartisan legislation strengthening the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA), which has buffered...WASHINGTON (18 de abril de 2024) - El Senado aprobó hoy un proyecto de ley bipartidista que autoriza nuevamente y mejora el programa de conservación de las aves migratorias de todo el continente...
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It’s been busy at the Arizona Legislature this year, with more than 100 land and water-related bills introduced this session. All that interest...
Two new native plant policies were recently passed in Greensboro and Winston-Salem, thanks to advocacy by local Audubon chapters and other partners. Combined, the policies will result in more native...
More than a hundred volunteers planted native plants along the Rio Salado to allow for pollinators – like bees, butterflies, and birds – to flourish at the Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado...FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(WASHINGTON D.C.-April 18, 2024) – The Department of the Interior has published a final rule for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that will ensure that millions...WASHINGTON (April 18, 2024) – A bipartisan bill that reauthorizes and enhances a conservation program for migratory birds throughout the Americas was passed by the Senate by voice vote yesterday...(WASHINGTON D.C.--April 19, 2024)—The National Audubon Society today praised a new rule from the Department of the Interior strengthening protections for 13 million acres of “special areas” in...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...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...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...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...
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...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...In the nearly continuous daylight of Alaskan summer, millions of breeding shorebirds cram into the wetlands of Teshekpuk Lake, arctic Alaska's largest lake. The spectacle exceeds the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in terms of importance to migratory waterbirds. But permanent habitat protections have been hard to come by.
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 »