Depending on your teenage years, the mere mention of superlatives could either bring back fond memories or resurrect deeply ...

Dancing is the main event at powwows, inter-tribal celebrations filled with Indigenous food and art. Styles and inspiration ...

Birds like the Piping Plover, American Kestrel, and Purple Martin are at the heart of our work. Each project we advance has a specific bird (or birds) in mind, and our goal is always to halt - and ...

This widespread and familiar bird may hunt by day or night, catching flying insects in the air. The bounding, erratic flight and angular wings make the Common Nighthawk unmistakable except in the ...

Widespread and familiar (though often called 'crane'), the Great Blue Heron is the largest heron in North America. Often seen standing silently along inland rivers or lakeshores, or flying high ...

Find Audubon near you here. The Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary ...

Suffering from job search burnout in an AI-obsessed world, a veteran editor found reprieve in the steady presence of the Mourning Doves, mockingbirds, and scrub-jays outside her window.

It’s a common sight up and down the Pacific Coast: a shimmering, pink-throated Anna’s Hummingbird, slurping up sweet fuel from a nectar feeder. Now, research suggests that feeding hummingbirds—a ...

A large owl of the eastern, central, and, increasingly, northwestern United States, the Barred Owl is one of our more common owl species. As with most owls, the Barred is primarily nocturnal, but it ...

Like a vagrant species in a neighborhood park, the documentary Listers recently appeared out of nowhere and caused an immediate buzz among birders. The feature-length film, available for free on ...

This audio story is brought to you by BirdNote, a partner of the National Audubon Society. BirdNote episodes air daily on public radio stations nationwide. This is BirdNote. Sometimes a real puzzler ...

While native flowering plants are the best source of nectar for hummingbirds, supplementing with a well-tended sugar-water feeder can provide additional sustenance during nesting season and migration.