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Help Protect Beaches—and the Birds That Need Them—With a Smartphone and a Coin
To make accurate predictions, researchers need data on a complicated array of forces and factors, from big-picture elements ...
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Looming Federal Cuts Threaten the Bird Banding Lab, a Cornerstone of Avian Science
For more than a century, the USGS program has revealed crucial insights about where birds go, how they’re faring, and what we ...
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Hummingbirds Rapidly Evolved Longer Beaks to Slurp More Nectar from Yard Feeders, New Study Suggests
The 20th century expansion of nectar feeders drove Anna’s Hummingbirds to spread across California—and transformed the birds ...
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A First-of-Its-Kind Event Helps Blind Birders Build Community
We spoke with some of the more than 150 blind and visually impaired birders who participated in the May celebration to learn ...
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Celebrating the Little Fish that Serve as the Beating Heart of the Ocean
World Oceans Day is June 8, a global day of celebrating and committing to protecting the ocean and marine resources that ...
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Warmer Oceans Are Driving More Frequent Seabird Die-Offs, Preventing Populations From Recovering
It wasn’t the seabird carcasses that were unusual. Birds that die at sea frequently wash ashore. On regular surveys to tally bodies from Alaska to Central California, for example, volunteer data ...
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Five Ways Bison Benefit Birds
Standing six feet high at the shoulder and weighing as much as 2,400 pounds, an American bison is a force of nature on its own. In a herd? “They’re ecosystem engineers,” says Jason Baldes, tribal ...
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Legislation to Bolster Hemispheric Bird Conservation Reintroduced in the U.S. House
WASHINGTON – This week Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA), Rep. David Joyce (R-OH), and Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) introduced bipartisan legislation, the Migratory Birds of the ...
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In the Great Plains, Landowners Are Banking On the Lesser Prairie-Chicken’s Survival
Dallas May can’t help but feel that something is missing. For more than a decade he’s been working to restore shortgrass prairie habitat to support wildlife on his family’s 20,000-acre ranch in ...
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This Hudson Valley Group Puts a Homegrown Spin on Restoring Native Forests
Last year 32 native grass seedlings spent the summer on Francesca Calarco’s apartment balcony in Ossining, New York. Under her watchful eye, all but a few survived drought and violent storms. In the ...
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Guide to North American Birds
One of the loudest and most colorful birds of eastern back yards and woodlots, the Blue Jay is unmistakable. Intelligent and adaptable, it may feed on almost anything, and it is quick to take ...
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Audubon Center for Birds of Prey
Established in 1979, the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey focuses on the rescue, medical treatment, rehabilitation, and release of Florida’s raptors. The first Florida Audubon Society meeting was held ...