Keeping Grebes Afloat in the Intermountain West
By Jane Braxton Little
A lifeline for an elegant waterbird.
Audubon Magazine January-February 2014
Illustrated Aviary
Passenger Pigeon
Artist Brandon Ballengée highlights extinction by removing cutting species out of classic prints.
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
By Eric Wagner
Piling on in the Guano Islands.
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
By Nancy Averett
For more than a century nearly everyone believed birds sense of smell was poorly developed or nonexistent. They were wrong.
