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- Reflections of a bird collision monitor https://www.audubon.org/es/node/149317 8 comments
- The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem https://www.audubon.org/magazine/winter-2021/the-internet-has-rat-poison-problem 206 comments
- The Yup’ik art of sewing feather-lined parkas for babies https://www.audubon.org/news/on-alaska-coast-native-women-are-reviving-cozy-tradition 5 comments
- No, It’s Not Actually a Murder of Crows – Okay, technically it is (2015) https://www.audubon.org/news/no-its-not-actually-murder-crows 154 comments
- The Silent Flight of Owls, Explained (2017) https://www.audubon.org/news/the-silent-flight-owls-explained 16 comments
- Birding Like It’s 1899: Inside a Blockbuster American West Video Game https://www.audubon.org/news/birding-its-1899-inside-blockbuster-american-west-video-game 83 comments
- The Origins of Hatred for Pigeons (2016) https://www.audubon.org/news/the-origins-our-misguided-hatred-pigeons 40 comments
- Ways Researchers Test Bird Intelligence https://www.audubon.org/news/bird-iq-tests-8-ways-researchers-test-bird-intelligence 2 comments
- The Burning Man of Birding: Inside Iceland's Puffin Festival https://www.audubon.org/magazine/november-december-2015/the-burning-man-birding-inside 5 comments
- Endangered Species Act faces fraught future https://www.audubon.org/news/force-conservation-endangered-species-act-faces-fraught-future?ms=digital-eng-email-ea-newsletter-engagement_20231216_audubon-magazine_winter-2023-issue 2 comments environment
- The Wild Blue Turkey That Blew My Mind https://www.audubon.org/news/the-wild-blue-turkey-blew-my-mind 4 comments nature
- More Than Half of U.S. Birds Are in Decline, Warns New Report. The 2022 U.S. State of the Birds report shows plummeting bird populations across almost all habitats while highlighting the need for further conservation efforts. https://www.audubon.org/news/more-half-us-birds-are-decline-warns-new-report 27 comments environment
- The Guam Kingfisher Could Soon Return to the Wild After a 30-Year Absence https://www.audubon.org/news/the-guam-kingfisher-could-soon-return-wild-after-30-year-absence 4 comments upliftingnews
- Researches found that the hypothesis of the woodpeckers skull serve as a shock absorber is wrong, instead they use their cranial skeleton as a stiff hammer to enhance pecking performance. What save them from brain damage is the brain small size and braincase shape https://www.audubon.org/news/new-study-shakes-long-held-belief-woodpecker-hammering 134 comments science
- Power Ranking of NFL Mascots Based on How Easily I Could Beat Them in a Fight https://www.audubon.org/news/what-seahawk-anyway 901 comments nfl
- Efforts to Save North America’s Most Endangered Bird Are Succeeding https://www.audubon.org/news/efforts-save-north-americas-most-endangered-bird-are-succeeding 4 comments upliftingnews
- Absent for More Than a Century, California Condors Soar Above the Redwoods Again https://www.audubon.org/news/absent-more-century-california-condors-soar-above-redwoods-again 76 comments environment
- Off the East Coast, a Massive Network of Wind Turbines Is Coming—Along With New Risks for Migrating Birds https://www.audubon.org/magazine/spring-2022/off-east-coast-massive-network-wind-turbines 321 comments environment
- Off the East Coast, a Massive Network of Wind Turbines Is Coming—Along With New Risks for Migrating Birds https://www.audubon.org/magazine/spring-2022/off-east-coast-massive-network-wind-turbines 19 comments energy
- Birds use earth's magnetic field for 'stop signs' when they migrate. Study based on data from 17,799 ringing recoveries suggests magnetic inclination is learned before departure and is subsequently used as a uni-coordinate “stop sign” when relocating the natal or breeding site. https://www.audubon.org/news/a-magnetic-stop-sign-tells-these-birds-where-nest 2 comments science
- The Rise of Billion-Dollar Disasters https://www.audubon.org/magazine/winter-2021/the-rise-billion-dollar-disasters-0 5 comments environment
- The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem https://www.audubon.org/magazine/winter-2021/the-internet-has-rat-poison-problem 9 comments nature
- The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem https://www.audubon.org/magazine/winter-2021/the-internet-has-rat-poison-problem 2 comments indepthstories
- The World's Two Oldest Common Loons Are a Couple—and Amazing Parents https://www.audubon.org/news/the-worlds-two-oldest-common-loons-are-couple-and-amazing-parents 3 comments nature
- This Ambitious Project Aims to Rebuild Louisiana's Vanishing Coastal Wetlands https://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer-2021/this-ambitious-project-aims-rebuild-louisianas 4 comments environment
- New Federal Report Confirms Ongoing Crisis for North American Birds. "With three billion birds lost in North America since 1970, we are in a bird emergency – and we know that if they are in trouble, so are we,” https://www.audubon.org/news/new-federal-report-confirms-ongoing-crisis-north-american-birds 5 comments environment
- When the flock had passed over, two hours later, “the town looked ghostly in the now-bright sunlight that illuminated a world plated with pigeon ejecta." "There's a shit storm acommin' Randy." https://www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-2014/why-passenger-pigeon-went-extinct 4 comments science
- Federal Judge strikes down Trump administration's rollback of bird conservation law. https://www.audubon.org/news/victory-federal-judge-rules-administrations-bird-killing-policy-illegal 12 comments nature
- Trump Admin. opens Atlantic's only Marine Monument to commercial fishing: Called the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument and covering 4,913 square miles of ocean habitat, the area teems with ocean life, including overwintering Atlantic Puffins. https://www.audubon.org/news/trump-opens-atlantics-only-marine-monument-commercial-fishing 21 comments nature
- The US Dept. of the Interior released its Draft Environmental Impact Statement as it continues its effort to strip away critical protections in the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. It’s time for Congress to respond to this attack on America’s birds. https://www.audubon.org/news/trump-administration-continues-effort-strip-away-bird-protections 6 comments nature
- Court Strikes Down Trump Administration’s Sage-grouse Directive, Canceling Hundreds of Oil and Gas Leases. Administration violated federal law by leasing sensitive sage-grouse habitat for drilling. https://www.audubon.org/news/court-strikes-down-trump-administrations-sage-grouse-directive-canceling 16 comments nature
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide https://www.audubon.org/news/when-bird-birb-extremely-important-guide 5 comments nottheonion
- North American Birds Are Shrinking, Likely a Result of the Warming Climate https://www.audubon.org/news/north-american-birds-are-shrinking-likely-result-warming-climate 14 comments worldnews
- Minnesota's Newest Sports Stadiums Take Very Different Approaches to Bird Safety: Comparing the Vikings' US Bank Stadium to the Loons' Allianz Field https://www.audubon.org/news/minnesotas-newest-sports-stadiums-take-very-different-approaches-bird-safety?fbclid=iwar01iijcq5ibzui031w9eqea_4hybwxunalqre4p-9f4genwd-gcllstguo 48 comments nfl
- Scientists Pinpoint the Secret Password That Unlocks Cowbirds' Self-Identity - The mystery of how Brown-headed Cowbirds—which are raised by members of other species—learn to see themselves as cowbirds has finally been solved. The answer lies deep in the brain. http://www.audubon.org/news/scientists-pinpoint-secret-password-unlocks-cowbirds-self-identity 3 comments science
- How Hawaii’s Kalij Pheasants Remind Us That Social Behavior Can Be Flexible http://www.audubon.org/news/how-hawaiis-kalij-pheasants-remind-us-social-behavior-can-be-flexible 3 comments science
- How Do We Save the Salton Sea?: For decades California's largest lake has teetered on the edge of ecological disaster. But a new deal and action plan may finally be gaining momentum http://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer-2016/how-do-we-save-salton-sea 11 comments indepthstories
- Bald Eagle and Canada Goose Throw Down in Epic Battle http://www.audubon.org/news/bald-eagle-and-canada-goose-throw-down-epic-battle 16 comments nottheonion
- First Wild Whooping Crane Hatches In Louisiana Since WWII https://www.audubon.org/news/first-wild-whooping-crane-hatches-louisiana-wwii 3 comments worldnews
- An 8-year-old Seattle girl has started receiving gifts, ranging from polished sea glass to rusty nails, from a murder of crows that she feeds daily. https://www.audubon.org/news/seattle-girl-befriends-neighborhood-crows-making-bird-lovers-everywhere-jealous 36 comments science