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Zoos as Night Heron Habitats
Zoos can be great places to see birds, and not just in an aviary – wild birds sometimes feel right at home in these urban green spaces. For example, Black-crowned Night Herons love...
Escucha Aves: AI for Conservation and Communities
Birds in Colombia are making themselves heard everywhere: during the recent Global Big Day (GBD), which reaffirmed our status as the country of birds; on Anderson Cooper’s 60 Minut...
Twitching
This post is republished in our “From the Archives” series, featuring highlights of our vast back catalogue of more than 10,000 birding-related posts published over the last 15 yea...
How birdwatching is captivating a new generation
On a Sunday evening, a group of teenagers and young adults stand scanning the sky through binoculars on the former site of Berlin's Tegel Airport. "There's a heron!" "Can you hea...
Four species in six hours
I’ve never done a Big Sit – that’s sitting in one place for many hours and recording all the birds you see – but I came quite close to one last week, when I sat on Wimbledon’s Cent...
Bird Cities Soar: A Year of Community-Powered Conservation
The Audubon Society has seen tremendous success across the fifteen certified Bird Cities! All across the state, communities are promoting events, education, and sustainability effo...
Bending the Bird Curve, Together
Every bird has a story. Some travel thousands of miles across continents. Others depend on a single type of habitat found only in a small corner of the world. Yet all birds share a...
The London Run
It's got busy at work this week so I had to overnight in London to do a couple of days quoting. Gave me an opportunity to visit Beddington Farmlands and on the way back today I sto...
How birdwatching has become an unexpected hit with Gen Z
A new wave of young birders is helping to turn one of Britain’s oldest pastimes into one of its fastest-growing hobbies The post How birdwatching has become an unexpected hit with...
Learn about Your Local Birds
Fall is a great time to learn about and observe the birds in your area, but you can do this any time of year. Whether you’re watching from a backyard or a playground, you’re sure t...
Gen Z flocks to BirdTok as birding takes flight: ‘It’s a craving for something real’
Social media and Shazam-like birdsong apps drawing young people to hobby as they seek a gentler connection to the outside worldSorry Elon, but they’re not your kind of tweets. Soci...
Birding Shanghai in July 2026
A few months’ break in this series of regular posts on birding in Shanghai has apparently gone unnoticed, much to the disappointment and humiliation of the writer. Despondent yet s...
Bird’s-eye view: A visit to the Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia
Imagine you spot a bird, perhaps an owl or hawk, and it seems its wing is broken. It’s still there, resting on the road. What should you do? According to the Avian Conservation Cen...
Seven Ways for Birds to Attract Scientific Attention
Here are seven pieces of advice for any bird hoping to attract the attention of ornithologists. 1. Live in Europe or North America.Geographic location is one of the strongest facto...
Goshawk Pagham Harbour
Another Monday and another day in the field. I contemplated going to twitch the Long-tailed Shrike but the thought of five hours in the car put me off. I've already seen 13 Long-ta...
J. Drew Lanham’s Taxonomy of Bird Obsessions
Ornithologist J. Drew Lanham's favorite bird is “the one with feathers.” But here, he shares a few species that have been especially on his mind lately — “selected birds of the mom...
Ask a Birder: Why birding rather than fishing (or another outdoor hobby)?
We asked several of our writers the same questions. Here are the answers to the one above. — Even if I wasn’t a vegetarian, fishing wouldn’t be my thing because it is too boring. B...
Outdoors: Classic birding book updated with latest species accounts
If you’re in the market for an in-depth book on birding that takes a deep dive into our Toledo area feathered friends, then look no further than Matt Anderson’s Birds of the Toledo...
Interviews with 10,000 Birds Writers: Pablo Lewis
Who are our writers, and why do they contribute to the site without pay and with no real benefits? We thought they deserved a proper introduction, so we started this series to find...
On the Wing: An Intern’s Experience in Bird Research and Conservation
From boating out to Popasquash Island for Common Terns to banding sessions at the Green Mountain Audubon Center to early-morning survey sessions throughout the Champlain Valley, my...
The Joy of Seeing Less: Birding Svalbard Slowly
July is a great time to visit Svalbard, especially with the rest of the world’s south boiling under heat domes and fighting horrific wildfires. Svalbard is cold (30-35F degrees), s...
This Mini Birdfeeder Is Like a Cute Cafe for Birds
I’ve never considered myself a bird person. But a few years ago, when I spent a few months in Vermont, my sister-in-law’s Bird Buddy bird feeder — and all of the birds it attracted...
This Mini Birdfeeder Is Like a Cute Cafe for Birds
I’ve never considered myself a bird person. But a few years ago, when I spent a few months in Vermont, my sister-in-law’s Bird Buddy bird feeder — and all of the birds it attracted...
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