Another reason for chili plants to hold back on the heat: Capsaicin is a gut irritant that can speed up digestion. If a bird ...

As Audubon magazine’s Field Editor for 45 years, Frank Graham, Jr. brought the beauty and resilience of nature into focus—as ...

Frank wrote the Ark during his tenure as Audubon magazine’s field editor—a position he held for 45 years. In that span Frank ...

These letters were printed in the Audubon Florida Naturalist Winter 2025 issue.

Where birds thrive, people prosper. From urban centers to rural towns, each community can provide important habitat for birds. In turn, birds offer us a richer, more beautiful, and healthful place to ...

Q: The amount of effort that goes into a Christmas Bird Count varies quite a bit across years and count circles. How do you deal with this issue when you calculate abundance trends? How do you know ...

A hemispheric approach to bird conservation directs our work to the places where birds need us the most. It recognizes that the majority of bird species in the Americas migrate annually between Canada ...

For a month the researchers had traversed slender mountain ridges, crossed and re-crossed rivers that roared through canyons cloaked in tropical forest, and endured bloodthirsty mosquitoes and leeches ...

This piece, written by a historian and biographer of John James Audubon, is the first in a series of pieces on Audubon.org and in Audubon magazine that will reexamine the life and legacy of the ...

In the beginning, the Mexican legend goes, Zanate, the Great-tailed Grackle, had no voice. This would not do. Being a tricksy and striving sort of bird, he stole himself seven songs from the sea ...

This homemade recipe helps birds through the cold months—plus it can be a heartfelt gift for any bird lover. 1. Over low heat, melt your three blocks of suet in the large pot. Stir consistently and ...