Birds

Migrating is one of the most dangerous times in a bird’s life. Turning off lights at night, putting stickers on windows, and keeping cats indoors can help.

New research from Dartmouth shows potentially harmful levels of mercury in black guillemot chicks, contributing to scientists’ understanding of mercury exposure for seabirds.

A seemingly routine construction project caught the eye of some local nature lovers, who say the grocery chain disrupted a vital habitat for local species.

Learning bird songs and calls links you to a kind of birding folklore passed down from generations of birders.

Want to know how hundreds of millions of birds die every year? Just look out the window.

With spring migration underway, scientists are eager to study how birds, and wildlife in general, will react to the 2024 eclipse. Research from the 2017 American eclipse gives us some things to look for in N.H. when the moon eclipses the sun.

Listening to as little as six minutes of bird song has been shown to reduce anxiety. No wonder an estimated 50 million people enjoy feeding feathered friends at a bird feeder. But who really benefits from feeding birds?

Many species in New Hampshire have made adaptations to flourish in the cold. It’s also why you see more trees with light-colored bark the farther north you go.

The elusive yet bold spruce grouse is a little-known NH inhabitant that relies on forests that are specifically adapted to colder temperatures.

Last month, New Hampshire Audubon debuted its new “State of the Birds” interactive website, a central repository of all things avian in the Granite State.