Last year, like any other year, the 2025 Audubon Photography Awards received an impressive collection of baby bird photos ...

More than a hundred bird species supplement their natural diets with foods offered at feeders. They often rely most heavily on feeders in winter, when food is scarce. Additionally, some species will ...

Using science, outreach, and policy, we holistically address the core threats facing birds in our region. Within communities, we create connections with nature and empower people to help conserve it.

John James Audubon (1785-1851) was not the first person to attempt to paint and describe all the birds of America (Alexander Wilson has that distinction), but for half a century he was the young ...

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 ...

The Sharon Audubon Center Summer Nature Program offers themed and general nature camps for children ages 3 through entering grade 12. Our camps have a small student-to-teacher ratio and are ...

When you attract birds to your yard, you’re creating an environment where they concentrate and mix in ways that are rare in the wild, sometimes making it easier for diseases to spread among them. That ...

ITHACA, NY.—The release of the 2025 U.S. State of the Birds report was announced today at the 90th annual North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The report, ...

For a month the researchers had traversed slender mountain ridges, crossed and re-crossed rivers that roared through canyons cloaked in tropical forest, and endured bloodthirsty mosquitoes and leeches ...

Looking to spruce up your yard this spring? Try growing more native plants – plants that naturally occur in the area where you live. Gardening with native plants has many benefits: They’re beautiful, ...

This homemade recipe helps birds through the cold months—plus it can be a heartfelt gift for any bird lover. 1. Over low heat, melt your three blocks of suet in the large pot. Stir consistently and ...

One of the best things about birds is that they’re everywhere. (Seriously, there are even records of the South Polar Skua at, you guessed it, the South Pole.) And even though many people don’t realize ...