Profiles of Birds
Black Terns in view

A photographer paddles into a secluded wetland to get a rare glimpse of nesting Black Terns

By Marie Read
Published: April 23, 2010
How backyard birdwatchers charted the sudden and mysterious decline of a beloved winter wanderer
By Anne Marie Johnson
Published: October 23, 2009
If the Varied Thrush is a bird of the Pacific Northwest, then why does it show up so often as far east as Maine?
By Matt Mendenhall
Published: December 26, 2008
Why the cardinal, a bird Audubon knew from the South, is thriving in winters in the North
By Matt Mendenhall
Published: November 1, 2008
Researchers on the frigid shores of Hudson Bay are changing our picture of the prince of birds
By Gordon Court
Published: July 11, 2008
A Swallow-tailed Kite's return to the nest turns a springtime walk into a goose-bump moment
By Anita Carpenter
Published: March 1, 2008
Sighting the "extinct" Ivory-billed Woodpecker turned even skeptics into true believers
By Chris Niskanen
Published: October 26, 2007
This year, most searches will rely on experts and helicopters
By Matt Mendenhall
Published: October 25, 2007
Heavy-handed searches in Florida and Arkansas have failed to gather definitive evidence, but multiple, simultaneous sight records and sound detections should not be dismissed casually.
By Geoffrey Hill
Published: October 25, 2007
Twenty years after the capture of the last wild bird, California Condors are nesting and flying free -- but not worry-free
By John Moir
Published: October 18, 2007
How a stroll along the rocky coastline of Nova Scotia turned into a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with one of the planet's rarest birds
By Randy Hoffman
Published: August 24, 2007
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