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A red helicopter hovers over a large flock of Snow Geese in a flat landscape.
Can Anything Stop the Explosion of Snow Geese in the Western Arctic?
September 19, 2025 — When a threatened species rebounds, it鈥檚 usually an unequivocal conservation success. When it comes to Snow Geese and their habitat-destroying ways, it鈥檚 complicated.
The three brothers pose for a portrait in Jim's home studio filled with paints and brushes, and a picture of Vincent Van Gogh on the wall.
For The Hautman Brothers, the Secret to Duck Stamp Dominance Is All in the Family
September 15, 2025 — The Minnesota painters have achieved unrivaled success in the federal government鈥檚 conservation-boosting art competition. They insist technical know-how has little to do with it.
Four researchers kneeling in sand secure a Brown Pelican by its beak and prepare to swab its mouth.
North Carolina's Cape Fear River Is a 鈥楩orever Chemical鈥 Hotspot鈥擶hat Does That Mean for Its Birds and People?
March 25, 2025 — Amid mounting global health concerns about PFAS, communities living along the waterway must grapple with how contamination is affecting life on the river. Yet as hard as it is to conduct health studies on humans, it鈥檚 even harder with wild animals.
A long line of students, books in hand, walk from their schoolhouse through a grassy field.
How an Indigenous Community in the Amazon Created a Bird Guide of Their Own
March 25, 2025 — Inspired by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace鈥檚 visit nearly two centuries ago, an isolated Indigenous community in Brazil worked with scientists to survey local birds and document cultural traditions. In doing so, they flipped the script of how research gets done.
Partially hidden by brown grass and shrubbery, a Lesser Prairie-Chicken with its patterned, striped feathers dances to attract a mate.
In the Great Plains, Landowners Are Banking On the Lesser Prairie-Chicken鈥檚 Survival
March 25, 2025 — The best bet to save the imperiled species may be a system that pays farmers and ranchers to protect its grassland home.
Conservation News
The Many Ways Scientists Are Turning Birds Into Feathered Field Assistants
March 25, 2025 — From frigatebirds and gulls to curlews and cormorants, researchers are tapping the 鈥滻nternet of Animals鈥 to map, understand, and protect our changing world.
Kids No Longer Have to Bird or Feel Alone, Thanks to This Club
March 22, 2019 — Thirteen years ago, six teens helped launch a group for young birders in Ohio. Since then, others across the world have adopted their model.
Birding News
Slings and Arrows: Why Birders Love to Hate Blue Jays
January 20, 2012 — They鈥檙e smart, spectacular, and vocally versatile, so is the species really so bad?