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Audubon Magazine January-February 2014

Reimagining the Passenger Pigeon
Illustrated Aviary

Passenger Pigeon

Artist Brandon Ballengée highlights extinction by removing cutting species out of classic prints.
Reimagining the Passenger Pigeon
Dr. Emily Doolittle on the Music of Birds

Dr. Emily Doolittle on the Music of Birds

This researcher studies the musician wren's sweet song.
Dr. Emily Doolittle on the Music of Birds
Keeping Grebes Afloat in the Intermountain West

Keeping Grebes Afloat in the Intermountain West

By Jane Braxton Little

A lifeline for an elegant waterbird.

A Walk Through the Winter Woods

A Walk Through the Winter Woods

By Thor Hanson

A snowy stroll reveals some suspicious characters traveling on foot, and a secret world beneath them. 

Waste Management, Peruvian Style

Waste Management, Peruvian Style

By Eric Wagner

Piling on in the Guano Islands.

A Buddhist Ritual Gets an Ecologically Correct Update

A Buddhist Ritual Gets an Ecologically Correct Update

By Rachel Nuwer

"Release life," the practice of freeing caged animals into the wild to generate good karma, is now an environmentally friendly act of kindness.

Birds Can Smell, and One Scientist is Leading the Charge to Prove It

Birds Can Smell, and One Scientist is Leading the Charge to Prove It

By Nancy Averett

For more than a century nearly everyone believed birds sense of smell was poorly developed or nonexistent. They were wrong.

Blurred Lines in the Audubon Magazine Photo Awards

Blurred Lines in the Audubon Magazine Photo Awards

By Mark Jannot

An owl, a photographer, a contest, and a conundrum.

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