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Sandhill Cranes and Northern Pintails. Photo: Tom Barnwell/Audubon Photography Awards
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Monumental Moments
August 29, 2024 — Braving the heat to become a desert advocate
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Three SSRS researchers, each holding a Western Yellow-billed Cuckoos during a banding and Motus tag deployment session. The researchers are focused on carefully handling the birds. The background shows natural vegetation, indicating the field setting.
Comeback Cuckoo: Baba Ghanoush Returns to Audubon Kern River Preserve in California
August 16, 2024 — Experimenting with tracking birds at finer spatial scales to better understand their migration routes and habitat use
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California Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma californiense)
Human Activity Threatens California’s Amphibians
August 14, 2024 — How human impact and habitat development has lead to the decline of California’s amphibious species
CALIFORNIA Richardson Bay Audubon Center
A forest on fire.
Climate Change, Deforestation and Wildfires Destroy the Once-Thriving Amazon
August 14, 2024 — Climate change in the Amazon region leads to 300,000 square miles of land destroyed within the Amazon Rainforest
CALIFORNIA Richardson Bay Audubon Center
Masters of Reality
Gods and Deities: How They Shape and Reflect Human Ambition Onto the Environment
August 14, 2024 — Worship, gods, and their relations to the environment
CALIFORNIA Richardson Bay Audubon Center
A variety of corals form an outcrop on Flynn Reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
From Vibrant to Vulnerable: The Coral Reef Crisis
August 14, 2024 — The fight to preserve coral reefs against pollution: How UV filters in sunscreen and pesticides kill corals
CALIFORNIA Richardson Bay Audubon Center