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Audubon Priority Bird: Roseate Spoonbill

The "flame bird" is one of North America's most unusual looking waders.

By the Audubon Editors

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Turn Your Yard into a Hummingbird Spectacular

Make smart plant choices your backyard can host these tiny miracles (and help scientists).

By Scott Weidensaul

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Remarkably Curious and Intelligent, Crows and Ravens Deserve a Closer Look

A new book offers a look at the lives of these smart, charismatic birds.

By John Marzluff and Tony Angell/Photography by David Liittschwager

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Night Lights May Affect Urban Birds

Birds exposed to artificial light in cities get an early start to mating season.

By Daisy Yuhas

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A Comeback for the Passenger Pigeon?

A new project aims bring a famous bird back from extinction.

By Brandon Keim

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What Makes Bird Vision So Cool

The way birds see the world at large is vastly different from the way we do.

By Tim Birkhead

Parrot Conservation Changes a Catholic Tradition

Fifteen years ago the yellow-eared parrot was presumed extinct. Its rediscovery in Colombia forced the Catholic Church to abandon an age-old tradition, and brought about one of the most amazing comebacks in the Americas.

By Susan McGrath/Photography by Pablo Corral Vega

Type: Magazine_article | From: Audubon Magazine

Earth's Great Symphony

Award-winning saxophonist Paul Winter turns a fascination with bird migration and the natural world into music about flyways.

By Michele Wilson Berger

Type: Magazine_article | From: Audubon Magazine

How Has Fukushima's Nuclear Disaster Affected the Environment?

A year after Japan’s nuclear meltdown, scientists are investigating the effects of radiation exposure on birds, other wildlife, and plants.

By Jane Braxton Little

Type: Magazine_article | From: Audubon Magazine

Unlocking Migration's Secrets

For centuries the study of bird migration has been riddled with mystery and unanswered questions: Where do birds go in winter? How far do they fly? Can they navigate a hurricane? Scientists are tapping new technologies to find the answers, and transforming everything we know—or think we know—about birds.

By Scott Weidensaul/Photography by Joel Sartore

Type: Magazine_article | From: Audubon Magazine