From the loss of the passenger pigeon, perhaps the most lamented extinction case in the United States, to the writing off of the Kaua’i nukupu’u, a Hawaiian forest bird vanished for more than a century and just recently officially declared extinct, the disappearance of species whittles away at the country's biodiversity and attachment to nature.
A fuller picture of where birds are can help inform conservation and research efforts. This week, why protecting birds in North America requires thinking about forests in Central America.
A fuller picture of where birds are can help inform conservation and research efforts. Plus: what wildfire smoke means for birds and the controversy roiling the Audubon Society.