Birds

Birds
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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Birds
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
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Audubon Magazine

Loon Lake

How amateur photographer Richard Simonsen captured his award-winning shot.
By Michele Wilson Berger
Type: Magazine_article | From: Audubon Magazine
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Audubon Magazine

PVC Pipes Can Make Great Legs

With some innovative thinking, one Florida rehab facility gave six injured sandhill cranes a walking chance. 
By Michele Wilson Berger
Type: Magazine_article | From: Audubon Magazine
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Audubon Magazine

Slings and Arrows: Why Birders Love to Hate Blue Jays

They’re smart, spectacular, and vocally versatile, so is the species really so bad?
By Les Line/Illustration by Jason Holley
Type: Magazine_article | From: Audubon Magazine
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Audubon Magazine

Traffic Cop

A neat trick transforms a normal-size bird into Godzilla.
Photo by Chuck Seamens/Text by Julie Leibach
Type: Magazine_article | From: Audubon Magazine
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Audubon Magazine

Audubon’s Photo Editor Discusses the 2012 Photography Awards

An insider’s look at the process behind the magazine’s annual contest. 
By Susan Cosier
Type: Magazine_article | From: Audubon Magazine
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Audubon Magazine

The Multiple Miracles of Bird Feathers

Other animals fly, make nests, chirp, lay eggs, and do all sorts of things birds do. But only birds have feathers, among the most magical creations in all of nature. 
By Thor Hanson/Photos by Robert Clark
Type: Magazine_article | From: Audubon Magazine
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