This dusty-looking chickadee lives in spruce forest of the North, mostly north of the Canadian border. A hardy permanent resident, it survives the winter even as far north as the Arctic Circle. Like ...
We are the Audubon Flock, striving every day to achieve a future where birds thrive across the hemisphere and to make Audubon a diverse and ever-growing force for conservation. We work throughout the ...
In the keen evening light, a Bald Eagle skirted the rushing current, dropped down within inches, and reached in for a fish. “It’s dinnertime,” said Preston Cook, watching from the patio of his ...
Try your hand at sketching birds in the field. Start by capturing overall posture and shape, then take your time to fill in ...
We are already experiencing the serious impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss on birds, people, and our planet. Yet leaders from around the world fell short of taking meaningful action to ...
In the summer of 2015, dead Common Murres started to wash up along the Alaskan coast. That wasn’t inherently alarming; such die-offs happen occasionally for murres and other seabirds like auklets and ...
In the coldest months, when birds seem scarce, look to your native conifers. These hardy trees and shrubs are a winter lifeline for birds and other wildlife. Birds feast on evergreen seeds and ...
Matt Maier was happy to leave behind the constant chores of a family farm to study business, not agriculture, in college. But a couple of decades later, when Maier had children of his own, a dream of ...
The dark profiles of the Rocky Mountains loom against a star-studded sky. Amy Seglund, a species conservation program manager for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, hikes up a steep trail inlaid with rocks ...
New birders quickly discover: To find birds, find plants. As the foundation of healthy ecosystems, plants provide birds with food and shelter and support myriad other organisms in complicated webs of ...
Millions of years ago, scaly, lizard-like dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Over time, some of those dinosaurs sprouted feathers and took to the skies—and while their reptilian cousins died off, those ...