One of South America’s least known and most threatened seabirds—frequently tangled in fishing nets and now facing warming ...

The Grange Insurance Audubon Center is one of 32 conservation action centers across National Audubon Society’s network and the first in the country to be built so close to the heart of a major city.

Audubon scientists took advantage of 140 million observations, recorded by birders and scientists, to describe where 604 North American bird species live today—an area known as their “range.” They ...

Found in tropical seas around the world, this long-winged seabird is only a very rare visitor to North America. Most records are from Florida, especially around the islands of the Dry Tortugas, but ...

In dry foothills and canyons in the interior of the Southwest, the Canyon Towhee is common in the low brush. They spend most of their time on or near the ground, often scratching in the soil with both ...

The most widespread of the three North American species of rosy-finches, the Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch nests from the islands of western Alaska south to the high mountains of California and northern ...

Far above timberline in mountains of the west lives this elusive little ptarmigan, the smallest member of the grouse family in North America. While the other ptarmigan are strictly northern, the White ...

The white-cheeked geese of North America were long considered to make up just one highly variable species, Canada Goose. It was not until 2004 that four of the smallest forms were formally recognized ...

Brought in from Europe as an ornamental addition to parks and estates, the Mute Swan has become naturalized in some parts of North America, mainly in the northeast. Not really 'mute'; its voice is ...

Few birds have been associated with humans so closely as the Rock Pigeon, better known as the common city pigeon. It has been domesticated and taken around the world, raised for food, trained for ...

This duck of the Southwest and Mexico is a very close relative of the Mallard, and was classified as just a subspecies of Mallard from 1983 to 2020. New research suggests that it is just as distinct ...

We protect birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow. Audubon is responding to the greatest challenges facing birds and people today while anticipating the issues—and opportunities—of ...