The migration journeys of Vermont’s neotropical migrants—birds that breed here in the summer and winter in the tropics—are arduous, with birds often flying thousands of miles to their wintering...
On a gray January day in 2025, miles out in Huntington Beach State Park, I saw the familiar face of a Piping Plover—a tiny, endangered shorebird that spends the winter on South Carolina’s coast...
Disasters weaken support systems that take years to rebuild, at the same time people caught in them are under extraordinary financial and psychological stress.
GARNER, NC—Every spring and fall we make one of our biggest calls to action—turn off unnecessary outdoor lights at night for migrating birds. This fall is no different, and with migrating birds...
Ten teenagers circled around a picnic table, their eyes focused on a cloth sack softly wriggling in Zach Hutchinson’s hands. Slowly opening the bag, he pulled out a Black-capped Chickadee and...
From boating out to Popasquash Island for Common Terns to banding sessions at the Green Mountain Audubon Center to early-morning survey sessions throughout the Champlain Valley, my summer became a...
All around Cook Inlet, young shorebirds are strengthening their wings. They’re the survivors, the chicks who made it to fledging. As they prepare for the next big challenge—their first...
Mobile phones have become part of just about everyone’s emergency infrastructure. But what do you do when the power and service go out?
Moving servers into the ocean does not make underlying environmental challenges disappear. And it creates new concerns as well.
Okay, I’ll admit it: taking the 5 or the 99 up through California’s Central Valley isn’t always the most beautiful drive for a road trip. Instead, most people would say to take the 1 to see...
Summer on the Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch of the National Audubon Society is a special time. Monsoon storms born in the Huachuca Mountains break the heat and inspire a collective sigh of relief...
Copper may be out where the U.S. Mint is concerned, but it is very much in with hunters who are also interested in bird conservation. Because when copper is made into ammunition, it can save the...