Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Birds of the World | Illustration by Jen Lobo. More From Living Bird Living Bird Summer 2024—Table Of Contents Living Bird Magazine—Latest Issue Living Bird Magazine Archives From the Summer 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. Evolution works in somewhat mysterious ways. Two birds at the same backyard feeder that look alike could be separated by millions of years of evolutionary history. Meanwhile, two birds that are each other’s closest evolutionary cousins could live on opposite sides of the world. That mixing ..read more

Magnificent Frigatebird silhouetted against a solar eclipse. Photo by Liron Gertsman. More From Living Bird Living Bird Summer 2024—Table Of Contents Living Bird Magazine—Latest Issue Living Bird Magazine Archives From the Summer 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. Canadian photographer Liron Gertsman spent over a year dreaming and planning to create a magnificent bird image during a rare celestial event—the total solar eclipse in April. Gertsman did research to find a spot in Sinaloa, Mexico, where he could maximize the time of totalit ..read more

The 3D digital scans of the Open Vertebrate Thematic Collection Network (oVert) allow users to look at specimens from every angle, such as this Red-billed Oxpecker (CUMV 48413) viewed from above and from the side. Scan from the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. More From Living Bird Living Bird Summer 2024—Table Of Contents Living Bird Magazine—Latest Issue Living Bird Magazine Archives From the Summer 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. The Red-billed Oxpecker, an African songbird with a bright scarlet bill and an eye to match ..read more

Forest elephants by Ivonne Kienast. More From Living Bird Living Bird Summer 2024—Table Of Contents Living Bird Magazine—Latest Issue Living Bird Magazine Archives From the Summer 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. To fly over one of the great remain­ing tropical forests is to be hit by a barrage of emotions. Sheer joy that such wild places still exist. Mounting excitement at the prospect of exploring their secrets. A looming fear for their future. And nervous trepidation about how humans can understand such vast systems in time to mak ..read more

Illustration by Cat Willet. More From Living Bird Living Bird Summer 2024—Table Of Contents Living Bird Magazine—Latest Issue Living Bird Magazine Archives From the Summer 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. Anyone who birds knows it is a pastime that brings people together into new flocks of friendships. Just as people have their favorite birds, some people have their favorite birding partners. My favorite birding partner is my colleague Sarah, who is roughly 13 years my senior and a professor of English literature at Fordham Universit ..read more

According to the International Ornithological Congress checklist of birds, the Rufous-backed Wren is a species that lives in Mexico and Central America. But such a bird is not recognized in eBird, which relies on the Clements Checklist of Birds of the World and considers this bird to be a subspecies of the Rufous-naped Wren. Photo by Dorian Anderson / Macaulay Library. More From Living Bird Living Bird Summer 2024—Table Of Contents Living Bird Magazine—Latest Issue Living Bird Magazine Archives From the Summer 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subsc ..read more

More From Living Bird Living Bird Summer 2024—Table Of Contents Living Bird Magazine—Latest Issue Living Bird Magazine Archives From the Summer 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. One way to get close to birds is to look for the plants that feed them. In spring, Red-eyed Vireos, Yellow Warblers, and hosts of other songbirds nab caterpillars by the dozen off emerging white oak leaves, while Cedar Waxwings and Gray Catbirds seek out sweet purple serviceberries. Summer takes hold and Ruby-throated Hummingbirds sip the nectar of wild berga ..read more

Featured Articles Oro Blanco: How Salt Farms in Honduras Sustain People and Shorebirds In the San Lorenzo Bay of Honduras, salt farms provide golden opportunities for sustaining generations—of people, of shorebirds, of an artisanal way of life. By Jorge Rodríguez; Photography by Jesús Moo Yam To Bring Birds to Your Garden, Grow Native Plants: Here’s How to Get Started Native plants offer a wild-foods bonanza for birds that helps draw more species into a yard. By Marc Devokaitis; Illustrations by Charlotte Holden Quiz: Can You Pick the Closest Relatives on the Tree of Avian ..read more

More From Living Bird Living Bird Summer 2024—Table Of Contents Living Bird Magazine—Latest Issue Living Bird Magazine Archives Traducido por Jorge Rodríguez y Osvel Hinojosa Huerta. De la edición de Verano de 2024 de la revista Living Bird. Click here to read this story in English. “Soy la tercera generación de una familia de producción artesanal de sal en San Lorenzo”, dijo orgullosamente Julia Salazar. Ella es la hija de Julio Salazar, quien ha estado extrayendo sal de esta bahía de la costa del Pacífico hondureño desde 1988 – y nieta de Sabas Nicolas Salazar Molina, quien ..read more

Lapland Longspur by Gavin McKinnon / Macaulay Library. From the Summer 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. In its most recent legislative session, New York State enacted the first significant regulation of neonicotinoid pesticide use in agriculture in the nation. The Birds and Bees Protection Act, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, bans the use of neonic-treated seeds (the primary agricultural use of this pesticide) for corn, soybeans, and wheat starting in 2029, with exemptions granted for farmers who face significant pressure from pests. The act also prohibi ..read more