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Maintaining the Platte River for Cranes and Communities

Audubon Society - Mon, 09/28/2026 - 13:28
If you've ever spent any time along the Platte River in the Fall, you may have spotted an odd sight in the river channel: Heavy farm equipment!  It can seem out of place on a wildlife sanctuary, but...
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Forecasting Water Supplies for Birds and Communities

Audubon Society - Mon, 09/28/2026 - 10:50
Sadly, the times when I’m most likely to get a peek at the Platte River are only when I’m crossing over it on I-80, driving to or from the many meetings where I sit in a room and talk to people...
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"Cranes on Parade" returns to Kearney

Audubon Society - Mon, 09/28/2026 - 09:05
A familiar Kearney art tradition is returning this year- but with a new twist!  Residents and visitors to Kearney have likely seen 6-foot tall, colorful crane sculptures around the city.  These...
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Celebrating the Magpie River on World Rivers Day!

Audubon Society - Sun, 09/27/2026 - 06:35
Every year on the fourth Sunday in September, people around the world celebrate the many values of Earth’s waterways. It’s World Water Day! We are celebrating by highlighting the incredible...
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Plant This, Not That

Audubon Society - Fri, 09/25/2026 - 16:44
Who can resist the home supply stores, nurseries, and even supermarkets all seeming to burst with eye-catching blooms, winter vegetables, shrubs for every nook and cranny, and trees? Fall is by far...
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New Colorado River Rules Buy Time. They Don’t Solve the Crisis

Audubon Society - Fri, 09/25/2026 - 10:37
The Colorado River has been telling us something for more than half a century, and this year the message got harder to ignore. In the 1960s, the river stopped flowing regularly into its delta, once a...
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Marine National Monuments and Sanctuaries: Reminders of Our Shared Past and Connected Future

Audubon Society - Fri, 09/25/2026 - 10:25
The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument would stretch from Manhattan to Omaha if laid out across the continental United States. Yet, you may never have heard of this diverse oceanic site in...
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Crane Season Takes a Flock

Audubon Society - Fri, 09/25/2026 - 10:11
Every spring, people from across the country and around the world make their way to Rowe Sanctuary to experience one of nature’s great migrations: the Sandhill Cranes roosting along the Platte...
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Points of Connection

Audubon Society - Fri, 09/25/2026 - 09:56
The photo essay opening­ this issue brings you to Teshekpuk Lake in Alaska’s Western Arctic. I traveled there to see a place Audubon has long worked to help protect. Before I arrived, I understood...
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The Big Picture

Audubon Society - Fri, 09/25/2026 - 09:56
The cover of the issue you are holding might be your first brush with a Yellow-eared Parrot, a species so rare that fewer than 100 were known to exist in the late 1990s. Or perhaps it’s the first...
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Mac Stone Puts His Photography to Work to Save Southern Swamps

Audubon Society - Fri, 09/25/2026 - 09:36
In the South, one thing you’re taught early on is not to mess with snakes—especially cottonmouths. The hemotoxic venom of these semi-aquatic pit vipers has been honed by evolution to dissolve...
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Four Fallen Songbirds Live on Through Origami

Audubon Society - Fri, 09/25/2026 - 08:25
Miles Wu will never forget the first time he saw an Indigo Bunting. This past May, as the 14-year-old was finishing his shift as a collision monitor with Project Safe Flight, he heard a thump; the...
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Across the South, Purple Martin Parties Are the Hottest Ticket in Town

Audubon Society - Fri, 09/25/2026 - 07:59
Under the fluorescent light of a Discount Tire sign, hundreds of people gathered in a strip mall parking lot near Austin, Texas. In between chats with volunteer naturalists, many lounged in lawn...
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Thousands of Handmade Birds Spotlight a Deadly Migration Toll in Chicago

Audubon Society - Fri, 09/25/2026 - 07:20
On a Saturday afternoon in June, volunteers sat at tables in the Chicago Architecture Center quietly building birds out of scrap fabric. One cut out black strips for a Magnolia Warbler’s breast...
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America’s Natural Heritage: National Monuments Are Essential for Birds—and for All of Us

Audubon Society - Thu, 09/24/2026 - 15:20
America’s 138 national monuments may not draw quite the same spotlight as national parks like Yosemite or Yellowstone, but they welcome some 20 million visitors each year and safeguard some of our...
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Audubon Champions Coastal Resilience Bills during National Estuaries Week

Audubon Society - Thu, 09/24/2026 - 13:40
Last week, a bipartisan group of Congress members, led by Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), and Mike Haridopolos (R-FL), introduced a resolution dedicating this...
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How Sweet: More Maple Syrup Producers Are Managing Their Forests for Birds

Audubon Society - Thu, 09/24/2026 - 12:37
At Nature’ly Sweet farm, located in Merrill, Wisconsin, owner Christopher Petron doesn’t only cherish the sugar maple trees that help produce the syrup he sells. He prizes the full diversity of...
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11 Native Shrubs to Make Your Yard a Wonderland for Birds

Audubon Society - Thu, 09/24/2026 - 11:54
Sure, trees and flowers are great, but tucked between them is another plant just as crucial for birds and worthy of your yard space: The humble and life-giving shrub.But what exactly is a shrub...
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Notes from the World Seabird Conference

Audubon Society - Thu, 09/24/2026 - 10:19
Just before I left for Tasmania, I watched Short-tailed Shearwaters (Ardenna tenuirostris) passing Washington's coast, headed the same direction I was about to go. Around 18 million of these...
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We’re Getting Better at Surveying Seabirds

Audubon Society - Thu, 09/24/2026 - 09:58
Anna Vallery, Coastal Program Manager for Audubon Washington, has long been interested in improving methods used for monitoring seabird and waterbird colonies. She is excited to keep pushing this...
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