{{Short description|Journal published by the National Audubon Society}} {{Redirect|Bird lore||Ornithology}} {{Other uses|Audubon (disambiguation)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | logo = | logo_size = | image_file = AudubonMag jul-aug2012 cover.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = Cover of July–August 2012 edition of Audubon Magazine showing a Baltimore oriole beside a country road | image_caption = July–August 2012 cover | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = {{Plainlist| * Ornithology * Wildlife conservation }} | frequency = Bi-monthly | total_circulation = 430,279<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abcas3.auditedmedia.com/ecirc/magtitlesearch.asp|title=Alliance for Audited Media Snapshot Report|date=2013-06-30|work=Alliance for Audited Media|access-date=2014-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418200356/http://abcas3.auditedmedia.com/ecirc/magtitlesearch.asp|archive-date=2014-04-18|url-status=dead}}</ref> | circulation_year = 2013 | publisher = National Audubon Society | founder = Frank Chapman | founded = 1899 | firstdate = | company = | country = USA | based = | language = English | website = {{URL|www.audubonmagazine.org}} | issn = 0004-7694 | oclc = 6823366 }}
'''''Audubon''''' is the flagship journal of the National Audubon Society. It is profusely illustrated and focuses on subjects related to nature, with a special emphasis on birds. New issues are published bi-monthly for society members.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://websvr.audubon.org/forms/updated/neworder/form.php|title=National Audubon Society website, membership benefits-Audubon Magazine|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727155331/https://websvr.audubon.org/forms/updated/neworder/form.php|archive-date=2013-07-27}}</ref> An active blog called ''The Perch''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://magblog.audubon.org/|title=The Perch – Audubon Magazine blog|access-date=2013-05-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510143503/http://magblog.audubon.org/|archive-date=2013-05-10|url-status=dead}}</ref> produces daily updates on issues also. In 2011, ''Audubon'' received an ''Utne Reader'' Independent Press Award for Best Environment Coverage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.utne.com/Utne-Independent-Press-Award-Winners-2011.aspx|title=Winners of the 2011 Utne Independent Press Awards|work=Utne Reader|access-date=2013-05-13|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622124629/http://www.utne.com/Utne-Independent-Press-Award-Winners-2011.aspx|archive-date=2013-06-22}}</ref>
==History== The earliest serial of the Audubon movement was entitled '''''The Audubon Magazine'''''. It was published between February 1887 through 1889 by George Bird Grinnell, who also published ''Forest and Stream'' magazine. Due to lack of funds and other issues, the earliest Audubon movement and its magazine foundered.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|year=1999|url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/feather/ftam.htm|url-status=live|access-date=2013-05-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709051817/http://americanhistory.si.edu/feather/ftam.htm|archive-date=2013-07-09}}</ref>
'''''Bird-Lore''''' was first published in 1899 by Frank Chapman. The coverpiece described the magazine as the "Official Organ of the Audubon Societies" and "an illustrated bi-monthly magazine devoted to the study and protection of birds".<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Bird-Lore|year=1899|volume=1|issue=1|title=cover|editor1-first=Frank|editor1-last=Chapman|editor1-link=Frank Chapman (ornithologist)}}</ref> The National Association of Audubon Societies purchased ''Bird-Lore'' from Chapman in 1935.<ref name="Accomplishments"/>
''Bird-Lore'' became the '''''Audubon Magazine''''' in 1941, after the National Association of Audubon Societies became the National Audubon Society in 1940. The name ''Audubon Magazine'' was shortened to '''''Audubon''''' in 1966.<ref name="Accomplishments">{{cite web|title=Timeline of Accomplishments|url=http://www.audubon.org/timeline-accomplishments|publisher=National Audubon Society|access-date=2012-12-29|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102004912/http://www.audubon.org/timeline-accomplishments|archive-date=2013-01-02}}</ref>
<gallery class="center" widths=230 heights=350> File:Bird-Lore cover 1899.png|''Bird-Lore'' cover File:Bird lore cover 1899.png|Title page of 1899 edition of ''Bird-Lore'' </gallery>
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==External links== * [http://www.audubon.org/ National Audubon Society] * [http://audubonmagazine.org/ ''Audubon Magazine'']; {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205114922/http://audubonmagazine.org/ |date=2010-02-05 }}
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