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Audubon Magazine Winter 2019

An Alaskan Mine Threatens the Site of the World's Largest Gathering of Bald Eagles
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An Alaskan Mine Threatens the Site of the World's Largest Gathering of Bald Eagles

In the Chilkat Valley, eagles, bears, and people depend on healthy salmon runs. A proposed mine could put the entire ecosystem at risk.
An Alaskan Mine Threatens the Site of the World's Largest Gathering of Bald Eagles
Inside the Race to Save China's Mysterious ‘Bird of Legend’
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Inside the Race to Save China's Mysterious ‘Bird of Legend’

The Chinese Crested Tern was written off as extinct decades ago. Since its rediscovery in 2000, scientists have been working to ensure that Asia’s rarest seabird keeps a firm foothold in reality.
Inside the Race to Save China's Mysterious ‘Bird of Legend’
These Students Are Partnering With Corvids to Replant a Forest After Fire
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These Students Are Partnering With Corvids to Replant a Forest After Fire

By Sarah Gilman

Island Scrub-Jays are acorn-planting machines. Might flying foresters be just what today's scorched Western landscapes need?

Birding With Benefits: How Nature Improves Our Mental Mindsets
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Birding With Benefits: How Nature Improves Our Mental Mindsets

By Jill U. Adams

Mounting scientific evidence supporting the health benefits of the outdoors is helping shape innovations in medicine, education, and more.

Three Perspectives on Discovering the Mental Health Benefits of Nature
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Three Perspectives on Discovering the Mental Health Benefits of Nature

By Jill U. Adams

The outdoors may help us focus or heal, but many grow up isolated from it.

How to Boost Your Mindfulness and Empathy While Birding
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How to Boost Your Mindfulness and Empathy While Birding

By Jill U. Adams

Turning your focus to nature and wildlife can help allay stress and anxiety. But always make others feel at ease, too.

Dramatic Swings in Great Lakes Water Levels Make Life Tough for Birds
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Dramatic Swings in Great Lakes Water Levels Make Life Tough for Birds

By Kristine Liao

On Wisconsin's Cat Islands and around the region, wildlife managers are working to create avian safe harbors from the climate-fueled fluctuations.

As Demand for New Technology Increases, Mining Threatens Pristine Places
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As Demand for New Technology Increases, Mining Threatens Pristine Places

By Andy McGlashen

From smartphones to electric-car batteries, minerals are essential. Can places like Alaska's Bristol Bay survive unscathed?

Birds Saved Debi Shearwater. Is She Really Going to Call it Quits?
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Birds Saved Debi Shearwater. Is She Really Going to Call it Quits?

By Elizabeth Weil

After 40-plus years of leading sold-out pelagic birding tours off the California coast, the trailblazing conservationist says it’s time to retire.

Reimagining the Great Cormorant
Illustrated Aviary

Reimagining the Great Cormorant

By Julie Leibach

Martin Haake's collage-style design enlivens the bird's dark plumage—and gives it a fish to snack on.

It’s the Start of a New Year, and Time to Act
Audubon View

It’s the Start of a New Year, and Time to Act

By David Yarnold

Let’s take the momentum from 2019 and translate it to lasting change.

When We Need Them Most, Birds and Nature Are At Our Service
Letter From The Editor

When We Need Them Most, Birds and Nature Are At Our Service

By Jennifer Bogo

The natural world holds tremendous value, in ways both expected and surprising—if only we let it.

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