When it comes to biodiversity, research shows not all neighborhoods are created equal. They’re defined by injustices past and ...

We hope you enjoy this gallery celebrating the native plants birds depend on to eat, nest, and rest. (For extra credit, see ...

Kevin Cronin, known as Kickball Dad to his social media fans, has gotten his millions of followers excited about birding by ...

Sometimes you just need to see the video. Take the winning clip in the 2024 Audubon Photography Awards, which shows two Purple Gallinules aggressively fending off an intruder with their spindly yellow ...

Benjamin Franklin would have preferred to have the Wild Turkey, not the Bald Eagle, chosen as the national symbol of the United States. Although the barnyard variety is a rather stupid creature ...

We are the Audubon Flock, striving every day to achieve a future where birds thrive across the hemisphere and to make Audubon a diverse and ever-growing force for conservation. We work throughout the ...

16-19" (41-48 cm). Short crest; long, fan-shaped tail with wide blackish band near tip. Has two color morphs, most obvious in tail color (gray or reddish). Black neck ruffs not usually apparent except ...

This rather tame, active, crested little bird is common all year in eastern forests, where its whistled peter-peter-peter song may be heard even during mid-winter thaws. It is related to the ...

Because of its popularity as a gamebird in Europe, the Gray Partridge was brought to North America as early as the 1790s, although it was not really established here until later. It has been most ...

A widespread towhee of the West, sometimes abundant in chaparral and on brushy mountain slopes. For many years it was considered to belong to the same species as the unspotted Eastern Towhees found ...

Often the most common and widespread gull in North America, especially inland, and numbers are probably still increasing. Sociable at all seasons; concentrations at nesting colonies or at winter ...