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Audubon Statement: NC General Assembly Makes Historic Investment in Farmland Conservation
11+ hour, 27+ min ago (141+ words) National Audubon Society " North Carolina lawmakers included a major investment in farmland preservation in the budget passed on July 2, including a $46. 9 million nonrecurring allocation to the Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund, and another $2 million in recurring funding, pushing…...
Celebrating Audubon's River Gates and a Career Dedicated to Shorebirds
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (222+ words) National Audubon Society River brought to Audubon more than two decades of experience studying and conserving migratory birds. Her career has taken her from Alaska's Arctic tundra and the Copper River Delta to Taiwan and throughout Central and South America,…...
Biologists Are Racing to Protect These Elusive Shorebirds. But First They Have to Catch Them
1+ week, 4+ day ago (289+ words) To tag a bird, first you have to catch it. And Lesser Yellowlegs don't make it easy. "We've come up with so many strategies," Garc'a says. To address these threats, four years ago Audubon launched its first working lands program…...
Birds of the Rainbow
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (285+ words) As the hot days of summer begin to settle in and the excitement of spring migration slows down, human celebrations are picking up. June is a month to celebrate freedom, a feeling that birds have always inspired. From Juneteenth to…...
New Species Documented This Spring at Pine Island
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (464+ words) From the banks of Currituck Sound to extensive grassy marshes, old duck impoundments, and upland maritime forests, Pine Island is home to globally rare habitat that'continues to remain'protected from development.' In May, scientists, staff, and volunteers spent a weekend counting…...
A Golden-winged Warbler Sounds the Alarm
1+ week, 4+ day ago (126+ words) National Audubon Society Private landowners have restored thousands of acres of the birds" preferred forest habitat in hopes of helping populations rebound. And Murphy points out that there are easy ways for individuals to help, whether by planting native pollinator…...
Ospreys in the Chesapeake Bay Are Starving to Death at Disastrous Rates. What Will It Take to Save Them?
1+ week, 4+ day ago (820+ words) Having written two books about the birds" resurgence, I was not eager to see their hopeful story revised, but I set out from my home in North Carolina to investigate. I wanted to know: Will Ospreys again prove resilient? And…...
In Alabama's Black Belt, Scientists Are Banding Birds In Rare Patches of Prairie to Aid Restoration Efforts
1+ week, 4+ day ago (168+ words) National Audubon Society Last winter, Lianne Koczur traveled to Central Alabama to glimpse a landscape of the past'and perhaps one for the future Dense, dormant grass covered the 100-acre field "Most people would walk up and wonder, "What's so special…...
Are Crows Really Our Friends?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (543+ words) Annie first met Sal in early 2024, soon after she and her partner, Jack, moved into their house. She was removing old landscaping fabric when a crow landed on the fence and looked at her curiously. She pointed to where the…...
Making Sense
1+ week, 4+ day ago (174+ words) National Audubon Society Chances are, if you've spent any time near a body of water, you have seen an Osprey. Aptly nicknamed fish hawks, the birds hunt along coastlines, rivers, and lakes throughout the hemisphere and the world. But have…...