Elizabeth Gray

Chief Executive Officer at Audubon

CEO @audubonsociety. Global conservationist, published scientist, executive coach, birder, globetrotter.

Articles

Power of Place

1 week ago | audubon.org | Elizabeth Gray

Audubon MagazineSummer 2025Audubon View From placid lakes to craggy coasts, the habitats we protect shape the lives of birds—and our own. By Elizabeth Gray Chief Executive Officer and Ex Officio Board Director Every summer, I return with my family and my siblings’ families to Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. It is a place we know by heart—where we spend a week living simply, in nature, surrounded by forests and water.
Foreign Objects I: What’s This Doing Here?

3 weeks ago | pw.org | Elizabeth Gray

In our Craft Capsule series, authors reveal the personal and particular ways they approach the art of writing. This is no. 234. A nineteenth-century British legal opinion about an insurance claim. A caption-less photograph of a Holocaust killing ground that goes unmentioned in the surrounding text. The loss of young love, childhood, and a grandmother entangled with text from a decades-old tourist guide to Florida that describes flora and fauna now vanished beneath urban development.
Our Connected Planet

Mar 25, 2025 | audubon.org | Elizabeth Gray

It is springtime in North America—a season of transformation. The arrival of migratory birds, blooming flowers, and longer days signal renewal and possibility. Across the Western Hemisphere, the rhythms of nature take different forms, but one truth remains universal: birds connect us to these cycles of life. Their songs, presence, and absence tell powerful stories about the health of our planet.
The Road Ahead

Dec 13, 2024 | audubon.org | Elizabeth Gray

As President Trump returns to office, we are reminded that while political outcomes shift, Audubon’s mission to protect birds and the places they need does not. Whether in the United States or across the hemisphere, our commitment to our mission is unwavering. This election brings a new set of challenges, but it also reaffirms something we have always known: Birds have the power to unite us across borders.
A Time for Optimism

Sep 26, 2024 | audubon.org | Elizabeth Gray

With dedication to science and passion for birds, together we will create lasting impact. Por Elizabeth Gray Chief Executive Officer and Ex Officio Board Director As we transition to fall, I am reflecting on the resilience and adaptability that define both nature and our work at Audubon.
A Time for Optimism

Sep 23, 2024 | audubon.org | Elizabeth Gray

With dedication to science and passion for birds, together we will create lasting impact. By Elizabeth Gray Chief Executive Officer and Ex Officio Board Director As we transition to fall, I am reflecting on the resilience and adaptability that define both nature and our work at Audubon. In July I found myself standing on the shoreline of Canada’s Lake Opinicon as my daughter meticulously recorded data on Tree Swallows as a summer field researcher.
Spring Into Action

Mar 26, 2024 | audubon.org | Elizabeth Gray

Migration reminds us of what we’re all collectively working to build: a world where birds thrive. Words by Elizabeth Gray Chief Executive Officer and Ex Officio Board Director As I sit by my window, admiring the beauty of two Eastern Bluebirds flitting through the trees, I am delighted to share this edition of Audubon magazine with you. It coincides with the return of our feathered companions from their winter retreats across the Americas.
Para proteger nuestro planeta, la COP debe reconocer la intersección entre los impactos climáticos y la pérdida de biodiversidad

Dec 27, 2023 | audubon.org | Elizabeth Gray

Historias populares Cómo diferenciar un Cuervo Común de un Cuervo Norteamericano Cómo hacer néctar de colibrí En inglés, la expresión "for the birds" (para los pájaros) indica, despectivamente, que algo carece de valor. Pero mientras los líderes mundiales se reúnen en la COP28, la conferencia anual de la ONU sobre el clima, estarán pasando por alto una pieza fundamental de la solución al calentamiento global si no actúan en favor de las aves.
To protect our planet, COP needs to recognize the intersection of climate impacts and biodiversity loss

Dec 4, 2023 | audubon.org | Elizabeth Gray

Popular Stories How to Tell a Raven From a Crow How to Make Hummingbird Nectar What Should Be Done About Flaco, the Eurasian Eagle-Owl Loose in New York? 13 Fun Facts About Owls Get to Know These 20 Common Birds In English, the idiom “for the birds” disparagingly signals something is worthless.
On Our Flight Path

Dec 4, 2023 | audubon.org | Elizabeth Gray

Popular Stories How to Tell a Raven From a Crow How to Make Hummingbird Nectar What Should Be Done About Flaco, the Eurasian Eagle-Owl Loose in New York? 13 Fun Facts About Owls Get to Know These 20 Common Birds In early November, I was fortunate to spend time with leaders from community and campus chapters and partners at Audubon’s 2023 Leadership Conference.