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Meet the 2021 Recipients of the Charles H. Callison Award and the Tamar Chotzen Educator of the Year Award
November 12, 2021 — Meet three people who have helped protect the places that birds need, today and tomorrow.
News
Newly Recorded Condor ‘Virgin Birth’ Is Another Way Birds Are Like Reptiles
November 10, 2021 — Zoo researchers discovered that two female California Condors had reproduced without males, a phenomenon known as parthenogenesis.
Science
Another Reason to Stop Global Warming: Save Millions from Air Pollution
November 10, 2021 — A new study underscores the scale of disease and death industrialized societies have accepted in exchange for fossil fuel energy.
Climate
This Duo Photographed Hundreds of Colombia’s Dazzling Birds This Year
November 09, 2021 — While their images are spectacular, the people they’ve met along the way are just as big a highlight.
News
Democrats’ Big Spending Bill Would Kick Oil Companies Out of the Arctic Refuge
November 08, 2021 — Ending a mandate to develop the refuge is a small but critical piece of what would be the country’s biggest-ever investments in climate protections.
News
Bureau of Land Management Brings Back Policies that Help Birds and Businesses
November 05, 2021 — A recently restored federal policy will help ensure birds and other wildlife don’t lose even more habitat.
News
Two Golden-cheeked Warblers painted by José Raul Vázquez Perez for the book La Historia de Chipilo Crisopario. Jorge Silva Rivera
La historia de este diminuto pájaro cantor amplifica una antigua lengua maya
November 05, 2021 — De cómo un cuento infantil sobre el amenazado chipe de cachetes dorados hace parte de un movimiento para rescatar las lenguas indígenas en México.
Culture
Hummingbird Hearts Beat 10 Times Faster Than Yours
November 04, 2021 — Hummers take the record, but all birds have super-charged hearts to match their high-energy lifestyles.
Podcast
A grid displays photos of eight birds—all of the remaining Kaua'i forest birds. They come in shades of yellow, red, and brown.
Mosquitoes to the Rescue! The Last-Ditch Effort to Save Kaua‘i’s Endangered Birds
November 04, 2021 — A modern twist on controversial biocontrol methods aims to make disease-carrying mosquitoes in Hawaii turn on themselves.
News
An American Avocet forages in a saline wetland at Audubon’s Gillmor Sanctuary in Salt Lake County, Utah.
Audubon's Marcelle Shoop Submits Testimony in Support of Saline Lakes Bill
November 04, 2021 — Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Program Act of 2021 would support birds and people in the arid West.
Western Water News