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Living Bird Winter 2025—Table Of Contents

A dark-auburn headed duck with a light gray body and black chest and shiny, black bill, sits in the water.
Redhead by Isaac Polanski / Macaulay Library.

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  • Close up of a pale pink bird with a long neck and large hooked, pink bill with a black tip, surrounded of a background of pink.
    Macaulay Library’s Best Bird Photos 2025

    Birders around the world have contributed more than 67 million photos to our Macaulay Library archive. Here are some of the best from the past year.

    Featuring more than 50 photographers
  • Close up of a bright red bird with a naked, pale-pink face, rainbow wing feathers and a short, but large and formidable pale beak, grooms its chest feathers.
    Mexico’s Long Road to a Scarlet Macaw Revival

    An environmental politician, a small Mexican nonprofit, and a network of guardians in Chiapas are helping Mexico’s last Scarlet Macaws survive the twin threats of deforestation and poaching.

    By Jorge Rodríguez
  • A yellow, grey, and beige bird in flight with other birds in background.
    Five Years After 3 Billion Birds Lost, Scientists Plan A Road to Recovery

    After a 2019 study identified major losses to North American bird populations, scientists are working to reverse the declines through pilot projects with Evening Grosbeaks, Lesser Yellowlegs, and others.

    By Gustave Axelson, Photos by Sparky Stensaas
  • A rust-colored and gray-green bird with a long dark bill, and long, pointed wings, hovers in the air.
    The Heretofore Unknown Odyssey of the Giant Hummingbird

    In a technical tour-de-force, researchers found that South America’s Giant Hummingbird is actually two species, one of which migrates half the length of the continent and ascends as high as 13,000 feet in a matter of weeks.

    By Marc Devokaitis

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