From the Magazine

September - October 2015

In this issue:

What happens when birds and buildings collide (above). The isolated wetlands where Whooping Cranes live, and the bizarre things humans do to raise these birds in captivity and then set them free in the wild. Not your grandmother's birding festival. E.O. Wilson at 86. Scientists' attempt to save a rare Hawaiian bird from extinction.

Read on for the full contents of our fall issue. 

Can We Learn to Handle the Heat of Forest Fires?

With climate change turning up the temperature and the state in a four-year drought, wildfires are scorching California like never before.  In the “nuke zone” scientists are looking for clues to how forests cope.

How Scientists Could Save A Rare Hawaiian Bird From Extinction

It involves a whole lot of native plants—and a whole lot of optimism.

Whooping Crane. Tom Lynn

A Bird's Eye View of Whooping Cranes' Isolated Wetlands

In Canada’s remote Wood Buffalo National Park, the endangered whooper continues its comeback—one (soggy) nest at a time.

A recurrent festivalgoer sports a vintage Biggest Week shirt. Camilla Cerea/Audubon

Welcome to Warblerstock, Ohio's Grooviest Birding Festival

During spring migration, Magee Marsh braces itself for an all-out warbler (and birder) invasion.

Wood Thrushes Connect Bird Lovers Across Borders

A crowd-funded geotagging project helped researchers figure out where these birds spend their lives.

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