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Great Gifts That Do Good: A Bird Lover’s Guide

Eastern Bluebirds by Tami Gingrich/GBBC. Holiday season is a wonderful time to let friends and family know how much they mean—but holiday shopping isn’t always easy on the world’s natural resources. If...

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Beyond Range Maps: New eBird Maps Reveal Bird Abundance and Population Trends

White-throated Sparrow: tap or click to view animated map.Media Player ErrorUpdate your browser or Flash pluginDarker or more purple colors indicate higher numbers of birds. This week, eBird introduced...

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Why Do We Feed Birds—and Should We? A Q&A With the Experts

Baltimore Orioles at a jelly feeder. Image by Jan Lewis/BirdSpotter. From the Winter 2019 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. More From Living BirdLiving Bird Winter 2019—Table of...

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Provisions in the Newly Signed Farm Bill Will Help Birds Into 2023

Today President Trump signed off on an update to the Farm Bill that passed Congress last week, and it looks like a good bill for birds. In addition to setting federal agriculture policy for commodities...

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Living Bird Magazine—Latest Issue

A male Helmeted Hornbill feeds figs to a female concealed in a nest cavity. Photo by Tim Laman. More From Living BirdLiving Bird Magazine Archives googletag.cmd.push(function () {...

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Thank You for Being Part of Year of the Bird in 2018

Thank you for coming along with the Cornell Lab during 2018, the Year of the Bird. In honor of the centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, we collaborated with Audubon, BirdLife International, and...

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Fieldwork in East Africa: Cooperative Breeding in Superb Starlings [Video]

Superb Starlings help each other raise young in the unpredictable climate of East Africa, an intriguing behavior known as cooperative breeding. In April, 2018, I  traveled to the Mpala Research Centre...

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Team Sapsucker Finds 242 Species Along the Gulf Coast on Big Day 2019

Heather Wolf of Team Florida scans a dwarf cypress stand full of Prothonotary Warblers. Photo by Drew Weber.Graceful Swallow-tailed Kites showed up for both Team Florida and Team Alabama. This one was...

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Get More From Merlin Bird ID With These Powerful Features

In 2014 we introduced our free Merlin Bird ID app, designed to help people answer their #1 question: What’s the name of the bird I just saw? The app works amazingly well thanks to its “smart” approach:...

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View from Sapsucker Woods: Birding’s “Choir” Must Become a Force for Change

Even common feeder birds are among the steep declines seen since 1970. Graphic by Jillian Ditner From the Autumn 2019 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. Ladies and gentlemen of the choir,...

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