Audubon Magazine

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Guardians of the Grebes

The Long Game • Conservation wins take time to build—and quick action to protect.

Climate Change: It’s a Bird Issue • Polluting shouldn’t be free; it’s time for a price on carbon.

INBOX

Risky Business • A new slew of attacks on the Endangered Species Act aims to roll back protections for imperiled wildlife.

Straight to the Source • Using the largest ornithology collection on Earth, a team of researchers has taken up the challenge to reconstruct the avian tree of life.

Code Breakers

Trailblazers • An Idaho summer camp makes young refugees and immigrants feel at home in their new environment.

Triumph of the Trumpeters • On Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation, swans have made a hard-earned comeback.

Ground Control • Oregon researchers are deploying high-tech tools to track down the mysterious and imperiled Marbled Murrelet.

Web of Spies

OPERATION ORNERY BIRDS • A multimillion-dollar black market for songbirds puts added pressure on species already in decline. We go inside the covert investigation to capture traffickers.

SAFETY BY DESIGN • As many as one billion North American birds die each year after colliding with windows. New guidelines and innovations aim to stem the lethal encounters.

AUDUBON IN ACTION • Audubon works on multiple fronts to prevent bird strikes. Contact your local chapter to learn how to help.

SAFETY ZONES: BUILDINGS FOR THE BIRDS

ON THE TRAIL WITH THE WILD DETECTIVE • An extraordinary naturalist suspected of telling tall tales rediscovered one of Australia’s long-lost parrots, giving both man and bird a shot at a comeback.

Goodwill Hunting • As critical habitat disappears, imperiled grassland birds have found an unlikely group of heroes: pheasant hunters.

BIRDING • Fall is here, and the swifts are ready to put on a show.

Frequent Flier Miles

Home Is Where The Hearth Is

Swift or Swallow: How Can You Know?

Chasing Waterfalls

Roost Report • Many Audubon chapters host fall swift watches so birders can revel in the spectacle as flocks head south.

TRAVEL • Put your money where the birds are.

Take Your Trip to the Next Level

Band of Birders

3 Ways to Reduce Your Footprint

Seal of Approval

PHOTOGRAPHY • Flocks are on the move, and they’re a whole new animal.

Three Ways to Look at a Flock • When it comes to taking photos of flocks, every distance tells a different story.

One-Pan Wonders • To capture a sense of movement, there’s no better technique than panning—moving your camera with the flock while you shoot. Here’s how to do it.

Photographers’ Favorites • Three pros reveal their preferred spots to find iconic flocking species during fall migration.

Find Your Own Fall Flock

Discourtesy Flush

Close Quarters

THE ILLUSTRATED AVIARY • Reimagining John James Audubon’s “Birds of America”