Coverage of climate change, habitat loss, pesticides, and other threats to birds, as well as how birders and conservationists are responding.
Next year will mark the centennial of the Passenger Pigeon’s extinction, and you can help tell the world about it. Author and birder Joel Greenberg … Read More “Film to tell the story of our once most abundant land bird: the Passenger Pigeon”
How your morning cup of joe can help save the birds you see this spring Read More “The true cost of coffee”
How the Barred Owl’s success in the Pacific Northwest is forcing managers to think the unthinkable Read More “A time to kill?”
Studies of specimens and sightings published in 2012 reach same conclusion as earlier research Read More “Ivory-billed Woodpecker is extinct, say two teams of researchers”
How researchers in a race with wind-power developers are shedding light on the habits, pathways, and winter haunts of a little-understood eastern migrant — the Golden Eagle Read More “Eastern Golden Eagles and wind power”
A biologist answers his neighbor’s question: What good are Cliff Swallows? Read More “Christy and the Cliff Swallow”
Saving grasslands, producing waterfowl, and creating birding gems, the Small Wetlands Program may be the best reason yet to buy a Duck Stamp Read More “Birding hotspots in the Small Wetlands Program”
The Endangered Species List doesn’t come close to describing the status of all of America’s birds. To see the big picture, you have to piece together multiple lists. Read More “Birds protected by the U.S. Endangered Species Act”
