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The National Audubon Society Kept Its Name. These Chapters Are Leaving It Behind.

From Seattle to Houston, more than 50 local chapters have renamed themselves as part of a reckoning over John James Audubon’s racist past.

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She bought a Maine island to stop clear-cutting; 90 years after Audubon opened its first camp there

Hog Island Audubon Camp marks an impressive ninety years of promoting environmental education and research. Located in Maine, this island was rescued from deforestation by environmentalists Millicent Todd Bingham and Mabel Loomis Todd. The camp is also the birthplace of Project Puffin, which successfully revitalized seabird numbers. Today, it remains…

The Times of India

These award-winning bird photos from Chile to Colombia, Canada and the US show nature at its most beautiful and vulnerable

As habitat loss and climate change threaten birds and wildlife, photographers across the Americas capture the urgent story of conservation – and the fight to protect the places birds call home

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In 1946, an Audubon ornithologist travelled 26,000 miles searching for the unknown nesting ground of America's last 15 migratory whooping cranes; their wild population now approaches 700

The whooping crane faced extinction with only fifteen birds remaining in 1941. Ornithologist Robert Porter Allen embarked on a mission to find their unknown nesting grounds. His extensive research and aerial surveys eventually located the birds in Canada's remote Northwest Territories. Decades of conservation work, including habitat protection and captive…

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Twenty-four years before American women could vote, two Boston cousins used afternoon teas to fight the feather trade; about 900 women joined their boycott

In 1896, two Boston cousins ignited a consumer boycott against fashionable feathered hats, rallying society women to renounce bird plumes. Their influential movement not only founded the Audubon Society but also paved the way for vital wildlife conservation initiatives. Thanks to their persistent efforts, Congress eventually enacted critical bird protection…

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You could be making a huge mistake with your bird feeder — here's what you should be doing instead

I love to feed the birds that visit my garden, but I didn't realize the way I've been doing it could be causing more harm than good. Here's the quick change you might want to think about making.

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Discover When Hummingbirds Will Return To Your Garden – And How To Be Ready To Keep Them There

Here's how to follow the flyways, and attract these avian superstars as they flit through your region

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Lili Taylor makes birding fun and easy

In her first book, the "Mystic Pizza" and "Outer Range" star details finding "her thing" and signal boosting nature

Salon

Outside lights are deadly to birds, especially this time of year

A new study finds that more than 1 billion birds — and probably more — are killed annually in the U.S. in collisions with windows

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Chicago Audubon Society changing to Chicago Bird Alliance in a refutation of slaveholder John James Audubon

The bird conservation organization’s leaders join other groups after grappling with the legacy of “a historical figure aligned with systemic racism.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Audubon faces a backlash after deciding to keep name that evokes a racist enslaver

Three board members resigned after the National Audubon Society rejected calls to change its name. Some local groups are renaming themselves anyway.

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