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A black and white American Oystercatcher, with its distinct skinny orange bill, stretches its wings atop a bed of oysters.
Inside the All-Out, 16-State Mission to Save the American Oystercatcher
June 20, 2025 — A massive network of conservation groups bet big on a business plan to reverse the striking shorebird’s decline—and won.
Conservation News
An aerial view of a concrete wall in a mangrove-surrounded bay.
Oysters Are ‘Nature’s Architects’—and Coastal Conservation’s Secret Weapon
June 20, 2025 — To give new life to shoreline habitats, a growing number of projects are harnessing the reef-building power of oysters.
Conservation News
Hundreds of little glowing lights float around a dark, forest floor.
Love Fireflies? Here's How You Can Help Scientists Save Them.
June 20, 2025 — Despite their luminescent glow, lightning bugs have remained a conservation mystery until relatively recently. Now researchers are relying on community science to track the beloved beetles.
Conservation News
A bright metallic green hummingbird drinks nectar from an orange flower.
This Summer, Catch a Kaleidoscopic Variety of Hummingbirds Out West
June 20, 2025 — To witness dazzling displays of migrating hummers on the move, the western United States is the place to be during the warmer months.
Travel
Lili Taylor stands in a lush, green forest holding binoculars and smiling.
Lili Taylor Leaps From Stage to Page With a Birdy New Memoir
June 20, 2025 — The celebrated actor can now add author to her list of accolades after publishing “Turning to Birds,” a memoir-in-essays about falling in love with the avian world.
Books
A piñata with three Ivory-billed Woodpeckers perched on a branch, photographed outside under a flowering tree.
Layers of Paper—and Meaning—in Roberto Benavidez’s Ivory-billed Woodpecker Piñata
June 20, 2025 — With “Woodpecker Trinity,” the artist reimagines a famous Audubon watercolor to pay tribute to the long-debated woodpecker, while adding his own symbolic twists.
The Aviary
The Swainson's Thrush Is in a Rush
June 18, 2025 — This long-distant migratory songbird is more often heard than seen during its quick stop on its breeding grounds in Alaska's boreal forest before heading all the way back to Argentina.
Bird Migration
Two people stand on an unpaved road through a forest with mountains in the background, looking through binoculars.
Arizona Surveys Find a Record-Low Number of Elegant Trogons, Raising Concerns About Drought Impacts
June 18, 2025 — For more than a decade Tucson Bird Alliance and volunteers have counted the stunning birds each spring in their only U.S. breeding stronghold.
Conservation News
Onondaga Lake Conservation Corps Celebrates New Pollinator Garden Along West Shore Trail
June 18, 2025 — A carefully curated selection of native shrubs, flowers, and grasses will support a variety of pollinators.
NEW YORK
A pink wading bird foraging in shallow water
Are Rising Sea Levels Impacting Roseate Spoonbills in Florida Bay?
June 18, 2025 — Here’s what we know.
FLORIDA Everglades