We hope you enjoy this gallery celebrating the native plants birds depend on to eat, nest, and rest. (For extra credit, see ...

When it comes to biodiversity, research shows not all neighborhoods are created equal. They’re defined by injustices past and ...

On a family vacation this summer, Kevin Cronin happily shared his many gripes about the beach with his TikTok followers: the drag of lugging the gear back and forth, those ludicrously short beach ...

Replicating a historic survey from 30 years ago, the Intermountain West Shorebird Survey is a five-year effort to count shorebirds at more than 200 wetland sites across 11 states in the Intermountain ...

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Below, find out which of the birds that nest or spend the winter in your area are most vulnerable across their entire range. Some birds may lose range outside of your state, making the protection of ...

Benjamin Franklin would have preferred to have the Wild Turkey, not the Bald Eagle, chosen as the national symbol of the United States. Although the barnyard variety is a rather stupid creature ...

A very close relative of the Yellow-bellied and Red-naped sapsuckers, replacing them on the Pacific slope. It was considered to belong to the same species for some time, so differences in behavior ...

This rather tame, active, crested little bird is common all year in eastern forests, where its whistled peter-peter-peter song may be heard even during mid-winter thaws. It is related to the ...

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 ...

This summary follows the taxonomy (listing order) of the International Ornithological Committee’s IOC World Bird List, version 14.1 (Gill et al. 2024; <www ...

The winter of 2023–2024 was mild and considered warmer and wetter than normal. Minimum low temperature was 25 º F at Oakland (26 for Allegany County, Catoctin Mountain, and Washington County). The ...