Winter Naturalist 2025 Letters
Letter from Julie Wraithmell, Executive Director Few natural phenomena are more stunning than the explosion of color (and pollinators) with the Southeastern sunflower bloom in the fall. The...
American Oystercatcher Tracking Program Evolves With GPS
The tiny backpack you see fitted on this American Oystercatcher is a solar-powered GPS/GSM transmitter. It weighs around 10 grams (less than 3% of this bird’s total body weight) and is fitted to...
American Oystercatcher Tracking Program Evolves With GPS
The tiny backpack you see fitted on this American Oystercatcher is a solar-powered GPS/GSM transmitter. It weighs around 10 grams (less than 3% of this bird’s total body weight) and is fitted to...
The Long, Exceptional Life of Frank Graham
Scrambling with my team to close Audubon’s March-April 2008 issue, we hit a wall. In the dusk of publishing’s golden age, advertising was so strong that we had depleted our entire inventory of...
The Long, Exceptional Life of Frank Graham
Scrambling with my team to close Audubon’s March-April 2008 issue, we hit a wall. In the dusk of publishing’s golden age, advertising was so strong that we had depleted our entire inventory of...
West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geology
A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s future as the climate warms.
2025’s extreme weather brought intense flash flooding, but no hurricane landfalls in the US – the jet stream is a big reason why
The US had a rare year without a hurricane make landfall, but it saw too much extreme rainfall and flash flooding across the country.
From the Archives: Frank Graham’s ‘Of Dreams and Dread’
Editor’s Note: Frank Graham was Audubon magazine’s field editor for 45 years, during which time he skillfully captured the beauty and complexity of subjects from across the natural world. This...
From the Archives: Frank Graham’s ‘Of Dreams and Dread’
Editor’s Note: Frank Graham was Audubon magazine’s field editor for 45 years, during which time he skillfully captured the beauty and complexity of subjects from across the natural world. This...
Remembering Frank Graham
Sitting on my desk is a well-thumbed copy of The Audubon Ark. I have flipped through it countless times, immersing myself in Audubon’s history. The book, which traces the evolution of the...
Remembering Frank Graham
Sitting on my desk is a well-thumbed copy of The Audubon Ark. I have flipped through it countless times, immersing myself in Audubon’s history. The book, which traces the evolution of the...
The Powerful Act of Noticing
Years ago, I hiked to the top of a mountain in Hawai‘i to see a bird most people will never encounter. The ‘Akiapōlā‘au, a Hawaiian honeycreeper with a brilliant yellow belly and a...