Audubon Magazine January-February 2014

A lifeline for an elegant waterbird.

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

Piling on in the Guano Islands.

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

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

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