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Volunteers Needed for Shorebird Monitoring 2016

Posted on Feb 11, 2016

Volunteers Needed for Shorebird Monitoring 2016

The Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds 2016 monitoring and stewardship season is about to begin! Please see the USFWS news release below for details, and please pass this along to any new volunteers you feel would be interested in joining us. We hope all our past monitors will be returning this year after yet another record-setting season in 2015. We can only keep this success going with your help! Spend your summer days at the beach and help protect a federally threatened species! The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners are seeking volunteers to monitor piping plovers and...

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Stratford Great Meadows Unit Training

Posted on Feb 7, 2016

Stratford Great Meadows Unit Training

Here’s my huge “thank you!” to all of the great volunteers that joined us at a training and informational sign-up session yesterday for the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is seeking volunteers to help out at the Refuge’s Stratford Great Meadows Unit, and now we have over 25 more people on board to help with public outreach, clean-up efforts, maintenance and bird surveys. The event was cosponsored by Audubon Connecticut, New Haven Bird Club and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History and held at Stratford...

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Winter Bird Forecast #3 – Heading Our Way?

Posted on Dec 10, 2015

Winter Bird Forecast #3 – Heading Our Way?

Snowy Owls, Rough-legged Hawks, the Townsend’s Solitaire and other western vagrants, winter finches and other winter birds featured in the latest Winter Bird Forecast from Audubon Connecticut and RTPI. Check it out here!

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Winter Bird Forecast #2 – Wonderful Waterfowl

Posted on Nov 23, 2015

Winter Bird Forecast #2 – Wonderful Waterfowl

The second Winter Bird Forecast of the 2015-2016 season from Audubon Connecticut and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History is up at WXedge.com, focusing on a true regional and national rarity. This Pink-footed Goose was found in Connecticut on Friday, one of many wonderful waterfowl species now entering the Northeast. Read on here!

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Winter Bird Forecast #1 – Western Invasion!

Posted on Nov 19, 2015

Winter Bird Forecast #1 – Western Invasion!

The first Winter Bird Forecast of the 2015-2016 season from Audubon Connecticut and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History is up at WXedge.com and focuses on a western invasion of birds including the massive Franklin’s Gull incursion across the Northeast. See more here!

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