One of South America’s least known and most threatened seabirds—frequently tangled in fishing nets and now facing warming ...

Albuquerque, New Mexico (June 10, 2026) — The National Audubon Society’s Audubon Conservation Ranching program now reaches the Southwestern United States with the hires of Nick Beauregard, Ariel Léger ...

Susan Willson has a killer cat. “He's basically a professional killer,” Willson says. “I was trying to find something that worked because I was so appalled at him bringing me two birds a week.” ...

Raptors are on the move. Now is a great time to get out and see the birds of prey as they migrate south for the winter (click here for a list of 10 awesome places to watch the spectacle). Seeing the ...

It’s hard to imagine what a mourning bird would look like. But forced to guess, I would say the footage of two female Emperor Penguins huddled around a lifeless chick in BBC’s series “Penguins-Spy in ...

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The white-cheeked geese of North America were long considered to make up just one highly variable species, Canada Goose. It was not until 2004 that four of the smallest forms were formally recognized ...

This duck of the Southwest and Mexico is a very close relative of the Mallard, and was classified as just a subspecies of Mallard from 1983 to 2020. New research suggests that it is just as distinct ...

We protect birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow. Audubon is responding to the greatest challenges facing birds and people today while anticipating the issues—and opportunities—of ...

Cowboys sometimes called these owls 'howdy birds,' because they seemed to nod in greeting from the entrances to their burrows in prairie-dog towns. Colorful fiction once held that owls, prairie-dogs, ...

Audubon scientists took advantage of 140 million observations, recorded by birders and scientists, to describe where 604 North American bird species live today—an area known as their “range.” They ...

Until the 1970s, the Boat-tailed Grackle was considered to be the same species as the Great-tailed Grackle, but the two forms overlap on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana without interbreeding. The ...