Audubon Magazine September-October 2011

Obscure fish are becoming the increasingly trendy eco-choice meal.

The bats in Texas's Bracken Cave are effective insecticides. Preserving the land where they live helps other wildlife, too.

Porcupine passion; an eight-legged lynx; more.

New rodenticide regulations protect raptors and could save seabirds.

Jenga Mwendo is greening a little corner of her hometown.

Musician Tab Benoit plays to save Louisiana’s wetlands.

A new book traces one ornithologist’s quixotic efforts to study and preserve the ivory-billed woodpecker.

Enticed by state and federal energy incentives, a utility rebate program, and falling prices for solar panels, a Colorado couple hooks their home up to the sun.

The Southwest’s deserts offer promise for solar power development. They also boast incredible biodiversity. New initiatives are looking to tap into the vast energy potential without threatening the wildlife and plants that depend on this fragile land.

Wildlife tracking is making a comeback, attracting outdoor enthusiasts and biologists alike. For some it’s an engrossing hobby; for others it’s a critical contribution to conservation.  

An arboreal army marches across England.

Can our conservation efforts embrace our nation's demography?

Steve Martin, Jack Black, and Owen Wilson chat about portraying birders hell-bent on tallying the most species in their new film The Big Year.

The author writes about what it’s like to have his book made into a major motion picture featuring some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Will birding ever be the same?

Lesser prairie chickens are almost cooked. But in the West, sensible planning and healthy partnerships hold promise—if Americans would only abandon their current policy of wind, oil, and gas development anywhere, at any cost.

Curiosity and field skills guide a photographer through tropical rainforests to study nature through science and art.

While environmental groups often work toward preserving biodiversity in ecosystems, many are now grappling with trying to figure out how to diversify their own ranks.