Because birding requires little gear, and can be done almost anywhere, it’s a great activity for your next trip. Here’s what ...

Travelers can look up chapters of Audubon to find area events like bird walks or use a website like Birding Pal to find local birders and volunteer guides (annual subscriptions, $10).

ORNITHOLOGICALLY speaking, North America is divided into four areas-western, eastern, middle America and the West Indies, the largest being the eastern one that includes the Atlantic seaboard. Mr.

S etting out to capture in paintings the avian life of a continent, John James Audubon (1785-1851) was nothing if not ...

Audubon, in his seminal 1827 pictorial guide “The Birds of America,” painted a never-before-documented species of eagle — the “Bird of Washington” — that continues to draw controversy.

We’ve lost three billion birds since 1970 due to loss of habitat. That is not only frightening, it's sad. Birding is important to us. Saving their habitat is just as important.

For James Hill, watching and photographing birds is more than a passion. It's a life-changing escape from what he calls "the challenges of humanity." In his retirement, Hill is a photographer, a ...