Living Bird Summer 2025—Table Of Contents

This ordinary-seeming songbird species is teeming with subtle genetic diversity, which allows local populations to respond in various ways to a changing world.

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.

As human-altered habitats bring two closely related chickadees together, one species’ song seems to be evolving to help them tell each other apart.

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.

A Merlin Bird ID user finds the app enhances more than just birding. It fosters attention, pattern recognition, even belonging.