:focal(3413x1695:3414x1696)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/2c/a3/2ca36e4d-21a9-45f2-a303-a4d7959d9aa5/julaug2021_a03_prologue.jpg)
Birds Collected Nearly Two Centuries Ago Still Help Scientists Today
The specimens gathered during an illustrious expedition by naturalist John Kirk Townsend continue to provide value to researchers
Ghost of a Chance
How did the ivory-billed woodpecker, which was feared extinct, hang on all these years?
Sage Grouse Strut Their Stuff
The star of one of nature's most spectacular spring shows is losing ground and may be headed for the federal Endangered Species List
The Rarest of the Rare
Scientists at the Smithsonian's Conservation and Research Center have snatched endangered creatures from the brink and redefined conservation biology
The Return of the Elk
Monarchs of the mountain West, they once ranged all the way to the Eastern Seaboard. Now they are coming home
Saving Birds with a Ring and a Prayer
In North America, more than 60 million birds have been banded to help us learn how they live and travel
Tracking America's First Dogs
Carolina dogs, discovered in the Southeast woods, may provide clues to the primitive dogs that arrived with the first humans in America
The Belled Viper
Even hunters of timber rattlers now admit that these snakes are shy, placid and very fragile
Page 1 of 1