New Video Highlights 25 Years of Jay Watch
After 25 years, Jay Watch data have been shaping management decisions long enough to affect scrub-jay populations for the better. What's especially unique about the success of this program, and the...
From Streams to Canopy: A Forester’s Growth Through Audubon Training
Mike Eckley’s connection to the natural world began knee-deep in Pennsylvania’s trout streams, where weekends spent fishing with his father sparked a lasting curiosity about the outdoors. Over...
This Earth Day, Hope Soars Through Collective Action
Each spring, Cerulean Warblers migrate north from South America, crossing the Gulf to spend their summer in the eastern United States and southern Canada. Like many bird species, their survival...
A Day in the Life: Shorebird Program Manager
A few minutes before sunrise, Megan Hatten arrives at the Ten Thousand Islands Field Research Station in Goodland. As the Southwest shorebird program manager for Audubon Florida, she and Derek Salge...
Healthy Illinois Wetlands Support a Healthier Mississippi River
Illinois lawmakers have an opportunity to reduce flood risk, protect water quality, and conserve essential wildlife habitat by restoring and protecting wetlands. Many wetlands in Illinois have been...
Washington Takes a Major Step Toward a Cleaner, More Bird-Friendly Electric Grid
With the recent passage of SB 6355, Washington has taken an important step forward in building the modern electric grid the state needs to support a clean energy future. The legislation establishes...
This Songbird is the Bellwether of the Bosque
Each April, as the Middle Rio Grande begins to green thanks to spring runoff and warming temperatures, neotropical migrants start to return to the bosque. One of the first to arrive is the Bell’s...
Audubon Welcomes Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Cooperative Watershed Management
Both chambers of Congress introduced the Cooperative Watershed Management Program Reauthorization Act of 2026 in March. The bipartisan bill—sponsored by Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Sen. John...
March Rainfall and 2026 Water Level Data from Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
22241Audubon staff at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary recorded 0.7” of rain in March (average for March is 2.55”). "We’ve only received about half of the rain that we’ve typically received by this...
Celebrate Poetry and Birds at the Randall Davey Audubon Center
National poetry month is the largest literary celebration in the world with tens of millions of participants worldwide. It celebrates poets’ integral role in our culture and reminds us that...
Protecting Birds in a Changing Ocean: How Marine IBAs Can Guide Ocean Planning
Every year, birds travel extraordinary distances to reach the productive coastal waters of California, where they depend on critical marine and coastal habitats recognized as Important Bird Areas...
Better urban design could help save Florida’s threatened Big Cypress fox squirrel
The Big Cypress fox squirrel is losing its habitat to urban and suburban development. But a few design changes could help to save this and other species.