US Bird History

Audubon at Carnival: Party Like It’s 1873

Nothing is more American than sitting down to a meal with seventy of your favorite wild animals

We’re Not Sending Our Best

To Europeans, America’s cardinals and mockingbirds were plenty exotic—and they couldn’t get enough of them.

I’m writing a book!

New York City Can’t Live With Its Birds, And It Can’t Live Without Them

Dying Birds and the March of Civilization

Chunk Ducks, Blatherskites, Butterballs, and Slug-toots

The Crucible on Laysan Island

Bird Law: 19th-century sportsmen tried litigating their way to bird protection. Would it be enough to save wildlife?

Trash Birds

Birds For Me And None For Thee: Sportsmen were the first to protect America’s birds – by reserving birds for themselves

A Great And Growing Evil

Feathers On Hats: The Murderous Trend that Launched the Conservation Movement

Birding, 10,000 BC: America’s first humans found a world filled with birds. Some of the most incredible disappeared with the mammoths.

Who Takes Care of Birds with Broken Wings?

Black Birds, Black Powder: DuPont’s Campaign to Exterminate the Crow