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From Best Dressed to Class Clown, These 15 Birds Own Their Spring Migrant Superlatives

Thu, 05/21/2026 - 07:42
Depending on your teenage years, the mere mention of superlatives could either bring back fond memories or resurrect deeply buried trauma. Either way, forget about all that—these superlatives are...
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Phyllis Hall Mentors the Next Generation

Thu, 05/21/2026 - 06:35
It’s a Friday morning at the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey, and the phone rings at the guest relations desk. Volunteer Phyllis Hall answers, and her calm-yet-authoritative voice coaches the...
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Volunteers Made 4.7M Observations for the North Carolina Bird Atlas! Now What?

Thu, 05/21/2026 - 06:12
Over the course of five years, 3,525 volunteers spent 234,495 hours counting birds in every corner of the state. That’s the equivalent of nearly 10,000 days of volunteers scouring the state...
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Immediate Opportunities to Build on State and Partner Efforts for Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Restoration

Wed, 05/20/2026 - 15:03
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) recently released a comprehensive report highlighting actions taken to date to restore the Great Salt Lake ecosystem, along with several policy...
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Coastal Stewardship Takes Flight as Shorebird Nesting Season Ramps Up

Wed, 05/20/2026 - 01:01
The end of South Litchfield Beach is a sprawling spit of sand, where tides and waves combine to create a wide beach that is popular with people and nesting birds. So Robert...
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Working Together in the Lower Gila River Corridor

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 17:54
The Salt and Gila Rivers flow through central Arizona, providing water supplies to communities, Tribes, agriculture, and industry –and connecting people to nature. This river corridor also...
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Conservation Leadership Initiative Students Soar to New Heights

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 11:34
by Natalie Al-Shihabi, Conservation Leadership Initiative InternAudubon Florida’s Conservation Leadership Initiative (CLI) grants 25 undergraduate students annually the chance to match with a local...
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Audubon Awarded $460,917 to Design Coastal Resilience Strategy for East River Marsh in Guilford, Connecticut

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 10:53
GUILFORD, Conn. — More than half of Connecticut’s salt marshes have been lost after hundreds of years of human intervention, but there is a growing movement to restore these habitats for the...
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Restoring Riparian Buffers at Green Mountain Audubon Center

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 10:46
It would have been a strange scene to onlookers — all thirty of us out in the field dancing to music from the 70s wearing colorful rain gear while April snow blew sideways. Despite the weather and...
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A First-Time Camper’s Bird’s-Eye View of the Platte River Safari

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 09:38
Each summer, young explorers arrive at Audubon’s Rowe Sanctuary ready to discover the wonders of the Platte River ecosystems. From scooping up insects with sweep nets to daily birding adventures to...
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Pedaling the Whooper Highway

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 09:10
Editor's note: Conservation along the Platte River is a collaborative effort, and Rowe Sanctuary works closely with many partners to work towards our habitat and landscape goals.  This month, we...
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Restoring the Platte

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 09:09
Nebraska is the home of Arbor Day, established in 1874 to promote tree-planting; an effort that has since spread across the country with great success.  It is ironic, then, land managers along...
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Intern Reflection: Flipping Logs and Looking at Salamanders

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 08:21
“Who remembers the four rules?” I ask, holding up my ready-to-count fist to the group of toddlers, preschoolers, and parents gathered for this week's Nature Playgroup. “Scoop them!” one...
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Signals in the Sky

Mon, 05/18/2026 - 13:10
As migratory birds travel thousands of miles across continents each year, scientists and conservationists are finding new ways to understand where birds go, where they stop, and what habitats they...
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New Technology Brings Bird Monitoring to the Next Level at Pine Island

Mon, 05/18/2026 - 12:31
This spring our Pine Island Sanctuary on the Outer Banks welcomed back nesting Osprey, Purple Martins, Tree Swallows, and more thanks to volunteers who cleared out nest boxes and made the sanctuary...
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Texas’s First State Park in 25 Years Has Some Superb Birding

Fri, 05/15/2026 - 13:27
At Palo Pinto Mountains State Park, the dusty pink-and-orange glow of the Texas sunrise kisses the skyline. The mountains, which are really a series of rolling hills, are lined by the lush green of...
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What the House Farm Bill Means for Birds, Working Lands, and Conservation

Fri, 05/15/2026 - 12:38
At the end of April, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026, also known as the Farm Bill. This legislation includes critical support for voluntary...
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“The Salton Sea Can’t Wait”—Inaugural Salton Sea Conservancy Board Meeting Spotlights Community Engagement and the Urgent Need for Progress

Fri, 05/15/2026 - 12:25
(May 14, 2026, La Quinta, CA) Thursday marked the first board meeting of the new Salton Sea Conservancy, the first conservancy established in California in over fifteen years and a recognition of the...
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Spring Migration is Aways Exciting

Thu, 05/14/2026 - 19:27
Probably the most surprising news this spring was that some staff members scared up an American Woodcock with three youngsters. This is the first documentation that this species successfully breeds...
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There’s No Bog Like Home

Thu, 05/14/2026 - 18:07
There may still be ice in the rivers and snow on the ground, but spring is in the air—and that means migrating shorebirds are, too. Millions of feathered travelers cross whole hemispheres in their...
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