Audubon’s Science Team welcomes you and invites you to explore these pages. Here you will learn more about Audubon’s bird conservation work. We focus on involving people to find solutions to the challenges faced by birds in the modern world. Why not take part in one of our Citizen Science activities and help provide information to scientists to support our conservation work-we have activities to suit people of all levels of experience, expertise, and available time. For quick summaries of our programs, and how you can get involved, please click on the links on the right hand side of this page.

Featured Important Bird Area
Prothonotary Warbler © Bill Stripling	Read about our featured IBA, Francis Beidler Forest, South Carolina.

Audubon Project Puffin sets record
Atlantic Puffin, by Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe	Audubon's Project Puffin passed the 100 puffin mark at Eastern Egg Rock in this 35th anniversary year! Read more about it.

Audubon Educator Susan Schubel receives Disney Conservation Hero Award
Susan Schubel, Seabird Restoration Program Director Stephen Kress, Anthony Schubel, daughter Ayla. Photo by Richard Benz.	The Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund (DWCF) has selected eleven Disney Conservation Heroes...read more

Puffins, Terns and Global Warming
Tufted Puffin, © Ryan Kingsbery	Dr. Stephen W. Kress of the Seabird Restoration Program reports that researchers are finding troubled times ahead for puffins and other seabirds.

The 2007 Audubon WatchList released
© Glen Tepke	One quarter of U.S. birds need our help to keep them from slipping toward extinction. Read about the list of 2007 WatchList birds.