Featured Articles
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Oro Blanco: How Salt Farms in Honduras Sustain People and ShorebirdsIn the San Lorenzo Bay of Honduras, salt farms provide golden opportunities for sustaining generations—of people, of shorebirds, of an artisanal way of life.
By Jorge Rodríguez; Photography by Jesús Moo Yam
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To Bring Birds to Your Garden, Grow Native Plants: Here’s How to Get StartedNative plants offer a wild-foods bonanza for birds that helps draw more species into a yard.
By Marc Devokaitis; Illustrations by Charlotte Holden
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Quiz: Can You Pick the Closest Relatives on the Tree of Avian Evolution?Not everything is quite as it seems when it comes to evolution. Try this quiz and see if you can pick out who is related to whom in the bird world.
By Eliot Miller
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Toward a Unified List of the World’s Bird SpeciesOrnithologists are collaborating to consolidate three widely used reference lists of bird species into a single global avian checklist.
By Kathi Borgmann
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Birds, Friends, Fathers, and the Quest to Be PresentA comforting tradition of evening bird walks with a colleague helped the author become more present not just in her own life, but in her parents’ lives as well.
Perspective essay by Christina Greer
Columns & Departments
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National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska Gets Additional Federal ProtectionsBy Gustave Axelson -
New York Enacts First-in-the-Nation Neonic Ban on Crop Seed CoatingsBy Gustave Axelson -
Gallery: A Magnificent Frigatebird—in the Sky with DiamondsPhoto by Liron Gertsman; Text by Gustave Axelson
