Purple Martin “I went to Venice Rookery, an Audubon location, hoping for an opportunity to get some great photos of the ...

Cognition can be defined as the brain's ability to build mental models of the world. Such capacity appears to be a crucial ingredient for the emergence of consciousness.

Two years ago, the UK government gave roughly $15 million to its own conservation organ called Natural England for the ...

David Norman reviews The Physics of Birds and Birding: the Sounds, Colors and Movements of Birds, and Our Tools for Watching Them by Michael Hurben ...

In my post on large language models (LLMs) last week, I argued that the most important question about LLMs is not the outcome of a race with China or when AI will reach human-level intelligence, but ...

Audubon field editor Kenn Kaufman breaks down this year’s checklist changes from the American Ornithological Society.

Some birds are aerial assassins, others are just urban freeloaders. This breakdown of the avian world ranks them all, from ...

Dinosaurs are among the most researched prehistoric animals, yet most people carry outdated ideas about them. Films, old ...

Orange blooms give your garden a dramatic splash of color and attract pollinators. Our lineup of orange-flowered perennials ...

Out of the over 10,000 species of birds on Earth, most are capable of flight. They have wingspans that range from 5.5 ...

Nature can be equal parts majestic, heartwarming, and terrifying. The winning entries of the 2025 BMC Ecology and Evolution ...

Hooked on wildlife watching Patrick Brejcha couldn’t believe his eyes when he checked his trail camera: a bald eagle, wild turkey and crow were side by side, eating from the same food source inches ...