Expert insights on bird identification, migration patterns, conservation status, and backyard birding— from ornithologists, field guides, and conservation biologists tracking avian populations.
Southern California's winter planting season offers unique lessons for urban bird habitat restoration. A new project at Debs Park demonstrates how microclimate-based design and strategic species selection can create year-round resources for multiple bird species in urban environments.
After 125 years of citizen scientists counting birds across the Western Hemisphere, the Christmas Bird Count has become the backbone of winter bird population monitoring, directly informing habitat restoration work and conservation decisions that keep species off endangered lists.
Behind the scenes at Florida's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, facilities manager Gio D'Achiardi and his team maintain the critical infrastructure that enables bird conservation research and public engagement in one of the state's most important wetland ecosystems.
While feeders attract cardinals to your yard, sustainable populations depend on landscape-scale habitat connectivity. A conservation biologist's guide to thinking beyond individual backyards toward community-wide habitat restoration that benefits cardinals and dozens of other native species.
With water levels six inches below historical averages, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary faces the kind of hydrological stress that can devastate Wood Stork and Great Blue Heron nesting colonies during the critical February-May breeding season.
At Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, prescribed fire manager Allyson Webb demonstrates how controlled burns restore critical habitat for endangered Red-cockaded Woodpeckers, Bachman's Sparrows, and dozens of other fire-dependent bird species across Florida's vanishing pine ecosystems.
The FY26 appropriations package protects critical bird monitoring programs and watershed restoration funding, providing the data backbone and long-term partnerships essential for landscape-scale conservation success.
When Audubon's Spring Creek Prairie began clearing Eastern red cedar from 300 acres, they weren't just removing invasive trees—they were rebuilding one of North America's most endangered ecosystems. A conservation biologist examines why this restoration project offers a model for reversing devastating grassland bird declines.
North America's 19 owl species serve as critical indicators of ecosystem health, but face mounting pressures from habitat loss, climate change, and human development. From arctic-breeding Snowy Owls to urban-adapted Screech-Owls, each species tells a unique conservation story requiring targeted habitat management and community engagement.
In Brazil's Serra da Aratanha, I witnessed something extraordinary: the careful choreography of returning birds to a forest that had been silent for over a century. Each small cloth bag we carried held not just a
New research reveals that nearly half of some beloved warbler populations depend on just five Central American forests—but we're losing them fast. Here's what we can do.