If a flash of blue across the arid montane summer landscapes of New Mexico and Arizona catches your eye,  it may just be the spunky Mountain Bluebird. The first time I saw one of these blue...

Today the National Audubon Society announced the winners of the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards, including two photographs that capture bird life in Florida. Now in its seventeenth year, the awards...

Did you peruse the winning images and videos for the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards and wish you could keep on scrolling?  Well, we’ve got more stunning and surprising avian moments. Below...

After reviewing this year’s winners of the Audubon Photography Awards, we were struck by how many of the awardees made their own luck. Hours, days, or sometimes even years of patience and effort go...

Targeted grazing is gaining interest as fire risk rises, particularly in hard-to-manage areas of the Western US. But it isn’t always as simple as it seems.

Every fall, flocks of tiny bat-like birds exhibit one of the greatest migration spectacles: hundreds and thousands of swifts gather into a swirling bird tornado above their chimney roost site. As...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation recently announced two WaterSMART programs funding stream restoration projects, with multiple rounds of funding through 2028. The Enhancing Water Resources Projects...

Audubon Texas is excited to announce the 2026 Texas Women in Conservation Honorees: Pamela Reese, Lydia Saldaña, and Shelly Plante. These remarkable leaders are recognized for their outstanding...

A cumulative impacts approach to environmental protection can lead to better policies and better outcomes. But cumulative impacts analysis is not the destination—it’s the way we get from evidence to effective action. If we want cumulative impacts to change conditions on the ground, we need to change the way we talk about them—and who we

The unprecedented drying of the Rio Grande has made this year one of the hardest summers for the bosque.  About a month ago, my co-worker Tucker and I were heading out to conduct routine...

If you're like me, you have a lot of field guides lying around. And I mean a lot. I have, of course, the guide that I still use regularly of the eastern birds of North America, but I also have field...