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Black Birders Week 2025: Celebrating Black Joy in Green Spaces Bird Watching, News, News & Features
Avian Influenza Outbreak: Should You Take Down Your Bird Feeders? Biology, Disease, News, News & Features
Alaska’s Colville River: A Place of Plenty for Arctic Hawks and Falcons [Video] Biology, Conservation, Nesting & Breeding, News & Features, Photography, Science & Conservation
Watch A Rough-legged Hawk Mom Feed Her Chicks in Alaska Biology, Nesting & Breeding, News & Features, Photography, Science & Conservation
Living Bird Magazine Living Bird Summer 2025—Table Of Contents News, News & Features
eBird View from Sapsucker Woods: Studies of Declines Contain Blueprints for Recovery News & Features, Science & Conservation
In Ultraviolet Light, Birds-of-Paradise Show True Colors Anatomy, Biology, Feathers, News & Features, Science & Conservation
A Bigger Range for the Lesser Goldfinch Biology, Migration, News & Features, Science & Conservation
eBird Gallery: Bird Art Week 2025 Art, News & Features
eBird Listening with Merlin Bird ID, I Hear the Patterns We Live By Bird Watching, News & Features
eBird Where to Go Birding Along Maryland’s C&O Canal Trail Bird Watching, News & Features
How a Supreme Court Justice Helped Create the 185-Mile C&O Canal Trail Bird Watching, News & Features, Science & Conservation
Mountain Chickadees Change Their Tune When They Live Beside Black-capped Chickadees Biology, News & Features, Science & Conservation, Songs & Calls, Sounds & Songs
eBird Incorporating eBird Trends into State of the Birds 2025 Biology, Conservation, News & Features, Science & Conservation
eBird As Birds Decline, High-Precision eBird Models Offer a Vision of Hope News & Features, Science & Conservation

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Living Bird Summer 2025—Table Of Contents

Featured Articles

The Secret to Song Sparrows’ Extraordinary Success Lies in Their Genome
This ordinary-seeming songbird species is teeming with subtle genetic diversity, which allows local populations to respond in various ways to a changing world.
By Rebecca Heisman
As Birds Decline, High-Precision eBird Models Offer a Vision of Hope
Five years after the 3 Billion Birds Lost research, a follow-up study published in the journal Science showed how eBird Trends can reveal the patterns behind America’s bird declines—and pinpoint areas for future recoveries.
By Gustave Axelson
Mountain Chickadees Change Their Tune When They Live Beside Black-capped Chickadees
As human-altered habitats bring two closely related chickadees together, one species’ song seems to be evolving to help them tell each other apart.
By Marc Devokaitis
How a Supreme Court Justice Helped Create the 185-Mile C&O Canal Trail
In 1954, a nine-day hike organized by Justice William Douglas saved the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal from becoming a highway. Today it provides a glorious green respite for residents of Washington D.C. and beyond.
By Frederic J. Frommer
Listening with Merlin Bird ID, I Hear the Patterns We Live By
A Merlin Bird ID user finds the app enhances more than just birding. It fosters attention, pattern recognition, even belonging.
Perspective essay by Andrew J. Lewis

Columns & Departments

View from Sapsucker Woods: Studies of Declines Contain Blueprints for RecoveryBy Ian Owens
In Ultraviolet Light, Birds-of-Paradise Show True ColorsBy Benjamin Hack
A Bigger Range for the Lesser GoldfinchBy Marc Devokaitis
Living Among the Song Sparrows of Mandarte IslandEssay by Miranda Rinck
Incorporating eBird Trends into State of the Birds 2025By Gustave Axelson
Birdword: An Illustrated Guide to Some Tongue-Twisting Ornithological TermsBy Rosemary Mosco
Gallery: Bird Art Week 2025Artwork by Venus and Nayan, Sofia Betancur Silva, Theo Chang Andreu, Charlotte Belland, Zoe Keller, Lauren Richelieu, and Owen Tattersall