July-August 2014 issue

August 14, 2014 — California bans rat poisons that are killing the state’s birds, but the fight isn’t over.

August 11, 2014 — Night-migrating songbirds fall from the sky when they collide with urban buildings. Some cities are switching off the lights to boost the birds’ chances of safe passage. 

August 08, 2014 — To steward the Mississippi River, Jaime Thibodeaux brings together a community.

August 05, 2014 — In Peru, a festival that celebrates the Andean Condor could be hastening its demise.

July 30, 2014 — In Norway’s latest melodrama, there are fewer tears, more tweets.

July 28, 2014 — Laser technology might succeed where noise-making air cannons have not. 

July 23, 2014 — Neil Hayward spent most of 2013 crisscrossing the continent on a quest to see as many bird species as he could in a calendar year. When it was all over, he’d seen more than anyone–ever–and broken the Big Year record.

July 18, 2014 — Deals affecting U.S. neighbors to the east and west make the case that corporations are countries, too.

July 14, 2014 — Of canvases and Canvasbacks: a look inside the high-stakes, duck-obsessed world of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest.

July 10, 2014 — Gannets are the bird world’s Olympians, capable of plunging a hundred feet through the air, then slicing through the ocean to chase down fish. 

June 25, 2014 — The literary giant and naturalist wrote more than 30 books as well as numerous magazine articles, including for Audubon. A friend and writer shares his memories of the author's later years.

June 13, 2014 — UAVs are poised to revolutionize ecology and even save scientists’ lives.