Audubon Magazine

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High Hopes

About Time • By examining our past, we can navigate toward a better, safer future.

Good Intentions and False Choices • We need to protect the bedrock environmental laws that will allow us to grow without sacrificing birds in the process.

Wishing you could be left with more? • Reduce your taxes today to benefit birds tomorrow.

INBOX

Audubon Magazine

Do you love hummingbirds? • Fill your yard with nectar-rich native plants.

A Global Deal for Oceans • As the United Nations convenes to negotiate groundbreaking protections for the high seas, the stakes are sky-high for migratory seabirds.

Special Delivery • Women in India are banding together to build empathy for an endangered stork—starting with celebrating nesting season.

Seeding Ground • An Audubon center in Ohio fights the paving of a prairie.

All Due Respect • When ornithologists and birders overlook the talents and needs of females, conservation suffers.

DEATH SPIRAL

OUTSIDE JOB • At prisons across the West, inmates are helping to restore the imperiled sagebrush ecosystem.

IN GRINNELL'S FOOTSTEPS • century ago, naturalist Joseph Grinnell trekked across California, making detailed notes of all he saw. Now modern researchers are retracing his steps to understand how the state’s surging human population has transformed its birdlife.

TEN YEARS LATER • BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster changed everything—and nothing at all.

TURNING POINT

SLOW BURN

ANOTHER WAY

BIRDING • Make this the year you face your gull demons.

TRAVEL • Buying carbon offsets may seem like a daunting endeavor. It doesn’t have to be.

PHOTOGRAPHY • Chase the rainbow of warblers in spring.

Because what you do matters.

THE ILLUSTRATED AVIARY • Reimagining John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” BLACK SKIMMER BY ANA GALVAÑ

CALL FOR ENTRIES • 2020 AUDUBON PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS