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Texas’ Balcones Canyonlands Refuge is expanding. So why are refuge leaders nervous?

 Environment
• September 10, 2026

Despite accelerating growth of the refuge’s boundary and community support, threats to national wildlife refuges in Texas are putting this successful refuge on edge

A bird, like those threatened by selenium in Montana, perches on a small wooden bird house in a grassy field.

Selenium contamination from Canadian coal mines may threaten Montana birds

 Environment
• November 18, 2025

Researchers warn that selenium pollution from Elk River Valley coal mines is seeping into Montana waterways

The bright New York City skyline reflects off of water.

Dimming the lights in the city that never sleeps

 Environment
• July 30, 2025

Nighttime light pollution has severe impacts on birds and humans alike. What solutions are out there for New York?

When wildlife goes viral

 Environment
• February 19, 2024

What New Zealand’s bird of the century contest can teach us about conservation

An illustration of an owl as a popular social media post

What happens when wild animals become social media sensations?

 Environment Blog
• September 18, 2023

Wildlife celebrities are becoming more common. Whether this harms or helps conservation depends on how we engage with these critters’ stories online

Wildlife rehabilitator Tristan Higginbotham holds a small ovenbird

Making the city that never sleeps safer for birds

 Environment
• July 7, 2022

New York City is at the center of a political fight over dimming nighttime lights that attract and kill migrating birds

A long, handwritten equation surrounded by white chicken eggs

A new equation can describe every egg

 Space, Physics, and Math
• November 15, 2021

Researchers have put forward a “universal formula for egg shape” — but is this discovery all it’s cracked up to be?

mockingbird in flight

New York City birders reckon with a colonial past and push for a diverse future

 Environment
• November 12, 2021

A pandemic-inspired boom has bird lovers looking for ways to welcome new enthusiasts

An adult bald eagle feeds two small eaglets in a nest

Webcams offer citizens a peek into the lives of bald eagles

 Environment
• June 16, 2021

Growing public awareness and engagement have played a part in the birds’ recovery, experts say

Oxpecker birds peeking over a giraffe's neck

When code becomes conservation

 Tech
• February 8, 2021

Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly common in conservation ecology. Should it be?

Small yellow and grey bird sits on branch, one of many birds that can be seen by people birding in New York City

Birding provides escape for the pandemic-fatigued

 Audio
• December 30, 2020

Watching for resident and migratory birds has provided people an outlet during the COVID-19 shutdowns

A large black bird, called a large-billed crow, perches on the back of an empty public park bench. Other benches and greenery are visible in the background. Japanese characters are visible on a post in the backgorund.

Birds might be listening to your conversations

 Life Science
• November 19, 2020

You’ve heard of the fly on the wall, but what about the crow in the city?

Image of a spruce grouse - a turkey-sized bird with brown and grey feathers and a rim of red around its eyes - in a tree.

This pine needle-eating bird is disappearing from Adirondack forests

 Environment
• August 1, 2020

Even as conservationists seek to save spruce grouse, their decline may signal broader issues for forest birds

Arjan Dwarshuis looks through his binoculars

A natural-born birder

 Environment
• June 24, 2020

Arjan Dwarshuis’ record-setting year shows how much birdwatching has changed

A sparrow sat upon a deck

Listening to the urban choir

 Environment
• June 4, 2020

How biologist Jenny Phillips listens to birdsong in an age of cities

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