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A male and female mallard swim next to each other with their heads lowered.
Watch For These Early-Bird Mating Displays This Winter
December 16, 2025 — Not every species waits until spring to start wooing their partners.
Bird Behavior
Caroline Saunders sits at a table showing a platter of small bird-shaped cakes.
How to Be a Better Baker for the Planet
December 16, 2025 — It's not hard to whip up delicious, climate-friendly desserts at home. Try your hand with these tips—plus a recipe!
At Home
A backlit Winter Wren stands on a mossy log.
It's Winter. So Where Are the Winter Wrens?
December 15, 2025 — Found across much of these eastern U.S. during the winter, these tiny birds can be tough to spot—providing a fun challenge during the slower birding months.
Birding Advice
A Common Grackle vocalizes with its beak wide open and wings outstretched, perching on a cattail.
10 Fun Facts About the Common Grackle
December 10, 2025 — Scrappy, adaptable, and cosmopolitan, this blackbird is a survivor worth celebrating.
Bird Questions and Facts
A person's hands sort through small bones and bits of fur with a toothpick on a white surface.
Where Do Owl Pellets Actually Come From? Inside the Unusual Business of Bird Barf
December 02, 2025 — From roost to retail, a network of field scouts and suppliers collect and process the regurgitated balls of bones that students dissect in science classrooms across the country.
Bird Science
A mural of three Lesser Yellowlegs painted on a white brick building.
Lesser Yellowlegs by Justin Suarez
November 18, 2025 — Location: Frosted Farmhouse, 112 Hawick St, Rockton, IL 61072
Audubon Mural Project Partners
Sawdust to Sparrows: How a Youth-Led Project Became a Community Movement
November 18, 2025 — One teen’s journey from backyard builder to global advocate for birds and community conservation.
TEXAS Bird Houses
Avis Spiralis
November 12, 2025 — A one-of-a-kind bird blind and observation tower
UMR Arts & Culture
Carole Turek smiles watching a hummingbird hovering at a flower she's holding.
Meet the Woman on a Mission to Photograph Every Species of Hummingbird in the World
November 12, 2025 — In less than a decade amateur photographer and Hummingbird Spot founder Carole Turek has photographed more than 250 hummingbird species, including one that was long considered extinct.
Profiles