Plant This, Not That
Who can resist the home supply stores, nurseries, and even supermarkets all seeming to burst with eye-catching blooms, winter vegetables, shrubs for every nook and cranny, and trees? Fall is by far...
New Colorado River Rules Buy Time. They Don’t Solve the Crisis
The Colorado River has been telling us something for more than half a century, and this year the message got harder to ignore. In the 1960s, the river stopped flowing regularly into its delta, once a...
Marine National Monuments and Sanctuaries: Reminders of Our Shared Past and Connected Future
The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument would stretch from Manhattan to Omaha if laid out across the continental United States. Yet, you may never have heard of this diverse oceanic site in...
Crane Season Take a Flock
Every spring, people from across the country and around the world make their way to Rowe Sanctuary to experience one of nature’s great migrations: the Sandhill Cranes roosting along the Platte...
Points of Connection
The photo essay opening this issue brings you to Teshekpuk Lake in Alaska’s Western Arctic. I traveled there to see a place Audubon has long worked to help protect. Before I arrived, I understood...
The Big Picture
The cover of the issue you are holding might be your first brush with a Yellow-eared Parrot, a species so rare that fewer than 100 were known to exist in the late 1990s. Or perhaps it’s the first...
Mac Stone Puts His Photography to Work to Save Southern Swamps
In the South, one thing you’re taught early on is not to mess with snakes—especially cottonmouths. The hemotoxic venom of these semi-aquatic pit vipers has been honed by evolution to dissolve...
Four Fallen Warblers Live on Through Origami
Miles Wu will never forget the first time he saw an Indigo Bunting. This past May, as the 14-year-old was finishing his shift as a collision monitor with Project Safe Flight, he heard a thump; the...
Across the South, Purple Martin Parties Are the Hottest Ticket in Town
Under the fluorescent light of a Discount Tire sign, hundreds of people gathered in a strip mall parking lot near Austin, Texas. In between chats with volunteer naturalists, many lounged in lawn...
Thousands of Handmade Birds Spotlight a Deadly Migration Toll in Chicago
On a Saturday afternoon in June, volunteers sat at tables in the Chicago Architecture Center quietly building birds out of scrap fabric. One cut out black strips for a Magnolia Warbler’s breast...
Data centers’ neighbors weigh in on how to manage them
The people of northern Virginia have been living with data centers for many years. But even they are resisting new developments. And they have specific wishes for how to regulate them.
America’s Natural Heritage: National Monuments Are Essential for Birds—and for All of Us
America’s 138 national monuments may not draw quite the same spotlight as national parks like Yosemite or Yellowstone, but they welcome some 20 million visitors each year and safeguard some of our...