Audubon Magazine

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Ready and Able • The time to spring into action is before it’s too late.

Our Connected Planet • Birds tell a story about the health of the environment. We’re listening.

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Under Pressure • U.S. natural gas exports are soaring, but the industry is leaving damage in its wake.

Coral Reef Relief • Seabird conservation on islands can boost struggling offshore ecosystems. It’s all in the power of poop.

Very Important Pools • Community scientists have stepped up to map ephemeral wetlands—and make sure they don’t disappear for good.

Beyond Hope • Marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is confident that a brighter climate future is possible—if we roll up our sleeves to build it.

Crossroads for Cranes • Wisconsin considers two very different paths to protect crops from a thriving species.

Boost for Butcherbirds • An effort to restore shrubby habitat brings Loggerhead Shrikes back to Indiana farms.

THE ‘F-O-R-V-E-R’ F-A-L-L O-U-T • Durable chemicals known as PFAS have been ubiquitous for decades. Now, scientists and advocates in North Carolina want to unravel what ecosystem contamination means for wildlife, and for us.

HELP WANTED • Scientists are recruiting feathered field assistants to map, understand, and protect our changing world.

A Field Guide of Their Own • In the Brazilian Amazon, a remote Indigenous community wanted to document local birds, just as famed naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace did long ago. This time they flipped the script of how research gets done.

BANKING ON A BIRD • Paying ranchers and farmers to maintain Lesser Prairie-Chicken habitat may be the key to saving the imperiled species.

FIELD GUIDE • Make a fresh start with a spring trip, a new garden, or by leading others outdoors.

How Do Birds Keep Clean? • Staying fresh is a matter of survival in a bird’s life—and a treat for birders to observe.

Dirty Work

Goodbye, Grass! • Take your spring cleaning energy outdoors. Replacing sections of lawn with native plants can support birds and other wildlife, plus save water.

Make the Leap to Leading • You—yes, you—have what it takes to guide a group.

Bird Sits Are Big Fun • Change things up by sitting down.

Good Advice Never Goes Out of Style • An early birding icon’s tips for leading “field classes” are as fresh as ever.

THE AVIARY • Where birds inspire art, awe, and action WILDWING TRIPTYCH BY ROSALIE HAIZLETT