How Do Hurricanes Affect Birds? [View all]

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When severe weather hits, humans hunker down. But what about the feathered among us?

Birding expert and Audubon field editor Kenn Kaufman’s interest in hurricanes began 35 years ago, when he covered the aftermath of Hurricane Kathleen, a storm that brought droves of seabirds into the American Southwest, for American Birds. We spoke to him recently about the surprising methods bird have for dealing with a hurricane in their path.

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