Audubon Magazine January-February 2012

How amateur photographer Richard Simonsen captured his award-winning shot.

A neat trick transforms a normal-size bird into Godzilla.

A nonprofit pairs researchers with extreme athletes.

Other animals fly, make nests, chirp, lay eggs, and do all sorts of things birds do. But only birds have feathers, among the most magical creations in all of nature.

Things to consider before burying your loved one at sea.

A surge of funds for restoring Minnesota’s wetlands.

The National Audubon Society has had many achievements, but the best is yet to come with its new strategic plan.

The last thing that the nation’s most maligned oil company needs is another black eye. So it remains a mystery why, after being such a good neighbor for so long, it refuses to honor its pledge to maintain one of the most important waterfowl, wading b

Kristen Bell mixes celebrity with activism.

An innovative program involving Audubon Vermont, foresters, and land managers conserves woodland for the birds.

An exciting nature-based curriculum for preschoolers developed at the Schlitz Center in Wisconsin is spreading to classrooms across the country—and even to Sesame Street.

Cold-weather moths; desert wise guy; midwinter's sweet treat; blizzard-loving bison; bicoastal, beach-storming dunlins; more.