Try your hand at sketching birds in the field. Start by capturing overall posture and shape, then take your time to fill in ...

In the keen evening light, a Bald Eagle skirted the rushing current, dropped down within inches, and reached in for a fish. “It’s dinnertime,” said Preston Cook, watching from the patio of his ...

The Bald Eagle Is Finally, Officially Our National Bird—Thanks to This Man Preston Cook’s love of the iconic raptor has led to a collection of 40,000 objects and, now, a quest to finally bring the ...

This dusty-looking chickadee lives in spruce forest of the North, mostly north of the Canadian border. A hardy permanent resident, it survives the winter even as far north as the Arctic Circle. Like ...

It is my opinion that they who have given so much importance to the cry of this bird, as to believe it to be mainly instrumental in ensuring the safety of other species, and in particular of Ducks, ...

The dark profiles of the Rocky Mountains loom against a star-studded sky. Amy Seglund, a species conservation program manager for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, hikes up a steep trail inlaid with rocks ...

The killing games were coming to an end. At the turn of the 20th century fewer sportsmen were participating in bygone Christmas Day “side hunts,” competitions in which hunters would split into teams ...

Photographer Scott Suriano is always hoping for one last snow. In the mercurial transition from winter to spring, he sees a chance to capture an unusual scene for his neck of the woods: Wood Ducks in ...

In the summer of 2015, dead Common Murres started to wash up along the Alaskan coast. That wasn’t inherently alarming; such die-offs happen occasionally for murres and other seabirds like auklets and ...

Dr. Brooke Bateman has led Audubon’s climate science work for several years, most notably as the lead researcher for Survival By Degrees: 389 Bird Species on the Brink, a groundbreaking climate change ...

On a sunny afternoon on the Pacific coast, Rhys Newman was sketching a pair of California Gulls when he had a realization. As an independent designer and birder who helps companies like Casper and ...