Birds

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State of the Birds

Noah Strycker

Climate change has many winter birds on the move, according to Audubon scientists Read More

Wood Thrush Conservation: An International Story

USFWS

A symbol of declining Neotropical migratory forest birds, the Wood Thrush's lifecycle takes it from Canada and the United States, to Mexico and Panama. Read More

Golden-winged Warbler

Curtis Smalling

This neotropical migrant is only one of the species Audubon's national IBA network helps. Find an IBA near you. Read More

Common Bird in Decline: Evening Grosbeak

Population decline since 1967: 91 percent. Principal threats: logging, mining, drilling, climate change, acid rain, and development of forest lands. Read More

Common Bird in Decline: Northern Pintail

Population decline since 1967: 71 percent. Principal threat: intensive agriculture, especially in North American Prairie pothole region. Read More

Climate change and birds

Noah Strycker

Climate change has many winter birds on the move, according to Audubon scientists Read More

Wood Thrush

USFWS

A symbol of declining Neotropical migratory forest birds, the Wood Thrush's lifecycle takes it from Canada and the United States, to Mexico and Panama. Read More

Important Bird Areas

Curtis Smalling

This neotropical migrant is only one of the species Audubon's national IBA network helps. Find an IBA near you. Read More

Evening Grosbeak

Population decline since 1967: 91 percent. Principal threats: logging, mining, drilling, climate change, acid rain, and development of forest lands. Read More

Northern Pintail

Population decline since 1967: 71 percent. Principal threat: intensive agriculture, especially in North American Prairie pothole region. Read More

News

Speak up for birds, sea turtles, and pedestrians at Cape Hatteras National Seashore

We need your help fighting the latest threat to wildlife and pedestrians at Cape Hatteras.

Road Scholars assist Audubon biologists to improve habitat for Maine seabirds

On September 11-16, 22 participants in the Road Scholar session titled ‘Maine Seabird Biology and Conservation’ arrived on Hog Island for a very successful service-learning program.

Other News

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Citizen Science

Important Bird Areas

The Important Bird Areas Program (IBA) is a global effort to identify and conserve areas that are vital to birds and other biodiversity.

Christmas Bird Count

From December 14 through January 5 each year tens of thousands of volunteers throughout the Americas take part in an adventure that has become a family tradition among generations.

Great Backyard Bird Count

The GBBC is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across the continent and in Hawaii.

Birds & Climate Change

Nearly 60% of the 305 relatively widely distributed bird species found in North America in winter are on the move, shifting their ranges northward by an average of 35 miles.

Watchlist

Audubon and the America Bird Conservancy have joined forces to rally conservationists around America's most imperiled birds.

Audubon's unprecedented analysis of forty years of citizen-science bird population data from our own Christmas Bird Count plus the Breeding Bird Survey reveals the alarming decline of many of our most common and beloved birds.

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Your Membership contribution will make you a partner in Audubon’s mission to conserve and protect nature’s at-risk birds and wildlife. Your Membership benefits will include a full year of Audubon magazine and more.

Take Action

Save America's Greatest Arctic Wetland

When most people think of the wildlife on Alaska's North Slope, they think of the beleaguered Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But, to the west, there is another vast wilderness that is also teeming with birds, bears, and caribou. We now have an opportunity to permanently protect America's greatest wetlands.