Birds
Buying Time
The Northeast’s disappearing hayfields are critical to farmers and grassland birds. A number of win-win plans are serving the needs of both.
By Les Line/Photography by John Huba
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Better Birding
Audubon Guide to Binoculars
When it comes to birdwatching, what you look through will make your experience a delight—or a disaster.
By Wayne Mones/Illustrations by Serge Bloch
Incite
Doggone!
Prairie dogs’ near extermination has had a devastating effect on a host of species. Now the dogs face an insidious new threat.
By Ted Williams/Photography by Matt Slaby
Green Travel
Crossroads
Israel is a small country, not known for its nature. But during migration, its skies fill with millions of birds traveling between Africa, Asia, and Europe.
By Rene Ebersole/Photography by Katherine Kiviat
Photo Gallery
Beauty Contest
A new book’s purity of vision shows birds in all their amazing detail.
Photography by Andrew Zuckerman/Text by Massimo Vignelli
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Important Bird Area
End of the Road
Stopping an irresistible tollway seemed an impossible task. But when the surfers joined the environmentalists, they became an immovable object.
By Julie Leibach/Photography by Brown W. Cannon III
Editor’s Note
By David Seideman
Audubon View
By John Flicker
Letters
The Great Feral Cat Debate.
Field Notes
Dirty old king coal; the friendliest catch; more.
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Green Guru
Cougar tracks; make your move a good one.
By Susan Cosier
Audubon Living
From Hippie to Hip
Green fashion gets an extreme makeover.
By Gretel H. Schueller
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Journal
Sacred Sea
Plumbing the depths of Siberia’s Lake Baikal.
By Boyd Norton
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True Nature
Fall Guys
A whale’s death kick-starts a whole new world.
By Amanda Leigh Mascarelli
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Earth Almanac
Canid chameleon; inland oysters; singing fish; more.
By Ted Williams
Reviews
Action Figure
A plan for cooling the warming conversation.
By Victoria Schlesinger
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One Picture
Stick ’em Up!
Standing tall in the Sonoran Desert.
Photo by Mark Klett/Text by Les Line
On the cover: A pair of Spix’s macaws, which haven’t been seen in the wild since 2000, likely because of a combination of habitat loss and the illegal pet trade. Photo by Andrew Zuckerman.
Banner Images: 1) Arctic fox. Photo by Judy Holmes/Alaska Stock, LLC 2) Victoria crowned-pigeon. Photo by Andrew Zuckerman 3) Illustration by Serge Bloch 4) Left: biologist Noah Perlut beside a mist net, used to capture bobolinks for banding. Right: bobolink chicks. Photos by John Huba
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