Please use eBird!
Are you using eBird? If you are logging all of your bird sightings there, helping scientists around the world via personal observations, fantastic – please share and recommend it to a friend! If not check it out yourself and sign up. It’s fast, easy, and free, and you’ll soon be addicted to entering all of your birds. You’ll have your own data stored forever alongside that of millions of others allowing us to better understand and help global avian populations. We especially need more citizen scientists filling in the blanks here in the Chautauqua-Allegheny...
Read MoreAudubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds at Jamestown Audubon
Tomorrow, October 3, I will be presenting a program on the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds (AAfCW) at the Jamestown Audubon Center & Sanctuary at 11AM. AAfCW an active conservation, education and outreach project that provides stewardship and survey efforts by volunteers and staff working to help the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) in an innovative joint initiative on Connecticut’s beaches, islands, and other coastal areas to monitor birds like the federally threatened Piping Plover and...
Read MoreSummer Snowy Owls
Here are the eBird Snowy Owl sightings for August and September 2014 only. It seems that there are some birds still lingering since the massive irruption. This year seems to have been another very strong breeding season for the species, albeit further north in some cases. Will they have a large movement south again? We will start to find out the answer in a couple of months. Meanwhile be on the lookout for these unexpected birds…
Read MoreAudubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds thanks volunteers
On Monday evening, September 15, the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds held a thank you party for all of the tremendous volunteers who helped us conduct surveys, monitoring, stewardship, education and outreach across Connecticut in 2014. We thank the Town of Stratford and the Stratford Conservation Commission for allowing us to use the pavilion at Short Beach Park in Stratford. There have been at least 2,200 hours logged by over 379 volunteers in the AAfCW program this year. We have seen 51 species of shorebirds, terns and long-legged waders at nearly 200 important sites in the state....
Read MoreGreat success with Connecticut waterbirds
Today I sent out the final 2014 Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds (AAfCW) weekly update email to all of our shorebird monitors and volunteers. Waterbird nesting season has come to a close and all of the juvenile and adult birds are on the way south for the year. Despite having a reduced staff the third AAfCW year may be the most successful yet in terms of breeding productivity for critical species like the federally threatened Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus), habitat monitoring, conservation efforts, volunteer engagement, outreach and education. Here is a brief rundown of some of...
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