Becca Cudmore

Becca Cudmore is a science writer in Portland, Oregon, and former editorial fellow at Audubon.

Articles by Becca Cudmore

Be the Next Birdman
May 12, 2015 — A Swiss flight simulator at the Museum of the Moving Image takes you to greater altitudes.
Culture
Restoring an Angry Bird Paradise
May 07, 2015 — The popular video game partners with BirdLife International to save real Pacific Island habitat.
Conservation
New Owls on the Block
April 30, 2015 — Jamaica Bay has its first reported Great Horned Owl nest.
Birds in the News
Deepwater Horizon: the Enemy Is Us
April 17, 2015 — The award-winning film The Great Invisible airs on PBS for the fifth anniversary of the largest spill in U.S. history.
Film
A Black Flamingo Stands in Cyprus
April 10, 2015 — It’s not every day you see Earth’s (maybe) only black flamingo.
Birds in the News
What Mr. Audubon Thought of Hummingbirds
April 10, 2015 — Descriptions of these nectar-sipping birds, written in an 1800s mindset.
Birds of America
Do Diving Birds Have a Breaking Point?
March 19, 2015 — Gannet necks don’t buckle under pressure easily—scientists are learning just how much force this bird can handle.
Science
A Bald Eagle’s Snowy Descent
March 16, 2015 — James Neiger finds the famed raptor mid-plunge.
Photo of the Day
In the Brown Pelican Nest
March 12, 2015 — Octavio Aburto is an unexpected houseguest of this fuzzy pair.
Photo of the Day
An Outstretched Belted Kingfisher
March 11, 2015 — Alan Murphy displays the regal hunter.
Photo of the Day