The male American Goldfinch, dressed in sunny yellow, brightens every feeder he visits during the spring and summer months.

After a layoff, a veteran editor found reprieve from an AI-obsessed job market in the steady presence of the Mourning Doves, ...

Governor Henry McMaster joined Audubon South Carolina today at Francis Beidler Forest for a ceremonial bill signing of the ...

On a hazy day in late September 2025, Desiree Narango walked the sandy paths at the Foreman’s Branch Bird Observatory in ...

Scientists have developed a fecal-sampling method that can help identify illegally captured wild birds in Latin America that ...

How the count started, and how the data is used today. Prior to the turn of the 20th century, hunters engaged in a holiday tradition known as the Christmas "Side Hunt." They would choose sides and go ...

“A place that is good for birds is good for everyone,” writes naturalist and author Scott Weidensaul in The Return of the ...

One of the most widespread and abundant songbirds in the world today, the House Sparrow has a simple success formula: it associates with humans. Native to Eurasia and northern Africa, it has succeeded ...

A powerful predator of northern and mountain woods. Goshawks hunt inside the forest or along its edge; they take their prey by putting on short bursts of amazingly fast flight, often twisting among ...

A big boreal finch, uncommon but widespread in spruce and fir forests of the North and the high mountains. It is often absurdly tame, allowing very close approach; ironically, this sometimes makes it ...

The Hudsonian Whimbrel nests in the Arctic across North America and concentrates in flocks at a few favored spots in migration, so that the observer sees either many of them or very small numbers. The ...

A grassland sparrow, breeding on the northern Great Plains, wintering locally in the Southwest. This bird was named for the young Spencer Baird (who would later become a leading ornithologist). After ...