In the weeks leading up to the Senate’s passage of the bill, Audubon engaged with thousands of its members, supporters, state ...

The American Lung Association recommends drone fireworks, since they do not contaminate the air, there’s no risk of fires, ...

The education efforts have clearly paid off, as the growing numbers of plovers in Maine demonstrate. After talking with some ...

By cataloging and painting hundreds of species in the early 1800s for his seminal four-volume work, “The Birds of America,” Audubon arguably contributed more to ornithological study than any ...

John James Audubon, famed as a naturalist and for his colorful and dramatic paintings of North American birds, had been dead for half a century in 1905 when his name was plucked from history to ...

John James Audubon’s Birds of America series captures the wondrous appearances and behaviors of North American avians, recording 435 species in their natural habitats. Those environments, though ...

Ornithologist John James Audubon labored over his life’s masterwork, “The Birds of America,” from 1827 to 1838. He created about 200 copies of the 3-foot-tall, four-volume set, each ...

Audubon, an accomplished illustrator of American birds, stands out as one of the most recognized names in conservation. He had been dead for about 45 years when in 1896, two Massachusetts women ...

Audubon countered that he drew the birds as he had observed them in the wild. Reese says that while the distinguished natural history establishment in London accepted Audubon, he faced fierce critics ...

On a recent Sunday morning, a group of 10 bird-watchers leisurely made their way up Yellow Fork Canyon near Herriman in ...

In “The Birds That Audubon Missed,” Kenn Kaufman delves into the fierce, at times unethical, competition among early American ornithologists.

The Audubon study offers insight about Rhode Island’s birds, but it’s based on only one year of field work. It will take many years of study to really understand the population dynamics of ...