Anna Gibbs

Anna Gibbs is the summer 2023 editorial intern at Audubon.

Stories by Anna Gibbs

It's hard to study how birds change their behaviour due to wildfire, but in 2020 researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey got lucky. When migrating Tule Geese wearing GPS trackers for an unrelated study encountered a dense plume over Washington, researchers watched them fly in disorganized paths and taking rest stops as if waiting for the worst to pass. One goose ended up in Idaho, where Tule Geese had never been observed before.

Scientists are figuring out how boreal forest wildfires affect our feathered friends

July 7, 2023 8 min. read

In June, wildfire smoke originating in Quebec descended upon the eastern United States, turning skies orange...