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From the loss of the passenger pigeon, perhaps the most lamented extinction case in the United States, to the writing off of the Kaua’i nukupu’u, a Hawaiian forest bird vanished for more than a century and just recently officially declared extinct, the disappearance of species whittles away at the country's biodiversity and attachment to nature.

A fuller picture of where birds are can help inform conservation and research efforts. This week, why protecting birds in North America requires thinking about forests in Central America.

A fuller picture of where birds are can help inform conservation and research efforts. Plus: what wildfire smoke means for birds and the controversy roiling the Audubon Society.

A fuller picture of where birds are can help inform conservation and research efforts. This week: try sharpening your skills through listening.

A fuller picture of where birds are can help inform conservation and research efforts.

A fuller picture of where birds are can help inform conservation and research efforts.

A fuller picture of where birds are can help inform conservation and research efforts.

Is the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct? Does it still hang on somewhere hidden in the swamps of the South?

At the end of September, an ornithological bombshell 54 years in the making finally dropped: The ivory-billed woodpecker, a symbol of southern