The tallies a group of local birders kept Dec. 16 were part of a wider, ongoing effort to get a census count on bird species ...

It is an early-winter bird census, where thousands of volunteers across the U.S., Canada (where Audubon partners with Birds ...

Long before technology became the primary means of measuring bird populations, a handful of conservation-minded folks set out ...

NEWPORT — The Eastern Towhee is a sparrow that doesn’t look like a typical sparrow. With its ink-black hood and sepia sides, the male especially stands out in the landscape. But it’s getting harder to ...

The sound goes off every morning with a sharp, staccato beep-beep-beep. Our neighbor, Yoka Meyer, thought it was our alarm clock going off. No, it’s a male tufted titmouse greeting the break of day ...

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Another study released in 2018, “Birds and Climate Change in Our National Parks,” a collaboration between the National Audubon Society and the National Park Service, found on average across the 274 ...