Birds are always up to something, and these entries captured an array of avians doing everything from impaling prey to ...

One U.S. hummingbird species truly hunkers down for the winter, and that’s the Anna’s Hummingbird. In the early 1900s, they ...

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A research project to keep tabs on Sharp-tailed Grouse shows the potential benefits of a promising but elusive technology.

Whether you’re planting in your yard, on a windowsill, or in a public space, you can help create more bird-friendly habitats with native plants. Find the best plants for your area (and where to get ...

Much and justly as the song of the Nightingale is admired, I am inclined, after having often listened to it, to pronounce it in no degree superior to that of the Louisiana Water Thrush. The notes of ...

Terry Masear’s dedication to nursing hummingbirds back to health offers tidbits of wisdom about practicing empathy and living each moment to the fullest.

Audubon delivers essential news, advice, and reporting on birds and bird conservation. Pairing compelling journalism with stunning photography and design, each quarterly issue helps readers grow their ...

This small shorebird is very much like our Semipalmated Plover, and replaces it in Europe and Asia. The breeding range of the Ringed Plover extends to Greenland and to some islands in the high ...

Birds are all around us. They’re huddling in the shrubs outside of our apartments, bopping around our backyards, foraging at nearby parks and lakes, and even occasionally hanging out in local parking ...

Far above timberline in mountains of the west lives this elusive little ptarmigan, the smallest member of the grouse family in North America. While the other ptarmigan are strictly northern, this one ...

Common in the American tropics, the Ringed Kingfisher was considered rare north of Mexico until the 1960s. It is now found commonly along the lower Rio Grande, and locally elsewhere in southern Texas.