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Audubon Magazine features some of the finest nature photography you’ll ever have the pleasure to behold. If your nature photography dazzles the eye and delights the imagination, you should consider entering this year’s award contest. If the phenomenal prizes don’t inspire you, the level of competition should! The deadline is September 5, 2011, so get [...]

I’ve come to see the National Audubon Society more as a fine conservation organization than a fun birding society. However, NPR Marketplace reports that Audubon is trying to leverage social media and cutting edge gadgets to appeal to a new generation of bird watcher. Welcome to the club!

Here’s a quick bit of fun for the trivially inclined. What do Gray Catbird, Chuck-will’s-Widow, White-breasted Nuthatch, Rusty Blackbird and Red-bellied Woodpecker have in common? At first glance not a lot, besides being birds of course, and more or less occurring across most of  the eastern half of the United States (and in the case [...]

New York City is full of surprises.  For example, did you know that John James Audubon, you know, THE John James Audubon, the nineteenth-century painter of birds and mammals, the one with the birding and conservation organization named after him, has his final resting place in New York?  Well, he does, and a recent visit [...]

Everyone knows who John James Audubon became: a renowned artist and naturalist whose inimitable style and spirit made him the paragon of American birding.  Many even know where he began and of the travails that tossed Jean Jacques Audubon from Haiti to France and then into the heart of a still wild America. Yet how [...]

If you engage in even casual bird watching, you have no doubt heard of the Audubon Society. The National Audubon Society is a national network of community-based nature centers and chapters organized around the goals of sustaining important bird populations and promoting conservation programs based on sound science and education. The stated mission of the [...]