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

It’s no secret that shrikes are formidable predators. The grayscale songbirds of the open country might look as harmless as mockingbirds, but these black-masked “butcherbirds,” as they’re known, pack ...

This audio story is brought to you by BirdNote, a partner of The National Audubon Society. BirdNote episodes air daily on public radio stations nationwide. The emphatic hoots of a pair of Barred Owls ...

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 ...

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In addition to releasing more than 700 rehabilitated raptors back to the wild each year, Audubon Center for Birds of Prey is home to several non-releasable raptors. Each is an ambassador for their ...

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 ...

A large falcon of the arid west. The Prairie Falcon is nearly the size of the famous Peregrine Falcon, but differs in its hunting behavior, often pursuing small prey with rapid, maneuverable flight ...

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, ...

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 ...

Named for its ringing kis-ka-dee calls, this bird seems to break the rules for the flycatcher family. Besides flying out to catch insects in the air, it also grabs lizards from tree trunks, eats many ...