Please join us for the release of Connecticut State of the Birds 2021. December 2, via Zoom.

November 16, 2021 — At noon on Thursday, December 2, we’ll bring together on Zoom a group of the nation’s top bird conservationists to talk about the Connecticut State of the Birds 2021 report.

It’s free, and you’re invited.

We’ve published Connecticut State of the Birds each year since 2006. This year’s report looks closely at the dramatic drop in bird populations over the last 50 years.

It’s titled, “Three Billion Birds Are Gone. How Do We Bring Them Back?”

Connecticut Audubon members will receive one in the mail around Thanksgiving.

Then on December 2, Patrick Comins, Connecticut Audubon’s executive director, will lead a discussion with the authors of the report’s articles.

As of today, Peter Marra of Georgetown University; Brooke Bateman of the National Audubon Society; Carol Foss of New Hampshire Audubon; Peter Paton of the University of Rhode Island; Calandra Stanley of Georgetown University; and Timothy White of the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management are confirmed. All are Ph.D. scientists and all are directly involved in the work to bring birds back. (See below for the table of contents.)

It promises to be fascinating and important discussion, and the report will help guide our conservation work for the foreseeable future.

Please join us. RSVP here.

Connecticut State of the Birds 2021
Table of Contents

“Three Billion Birds Are Gone. How Do We Bring Them Back?”

Reimagining Bird Conservation in the 21st Century
by Peter P. Marra

The Uncertain Road to Recovering 3 Billion Birds

Searching the Forests of Far Northern New Hampshire for the Key to Rusty Blackbird Declines
by Carol R. Foss

Semipalmated Sandpipers Are Down By 80% — Their Plight in a Changing World
by David S. Mizrahi

The Horseshoe Crab Recovery Coalition

One Good Tern Deserves Another
Common and Roseate Terns in Long Island Sound
by Peter Paton and Pamela Loring

The Most Important Things to Do Now
Thoughts from Scott Weidensaul, Drew Lanham, Leslie Carothers, Morgan Tingley, Arvind Panjabi, Deborah Cramer, Desiree L. Narango

Wood Thrush Have Declined by 60% — Chasing Them Through Their Annual Cycle to Learn Why
by Calandra Stanley

Birds Are Telling Us It’s Time to Act on Climate Change
Natural Climate Solutions Show the Way
by Brooke Bateman

Food-rich Shoals Provide Refuge for Collapsing Sea Duck Populations
by Timothy White

Working For Better Conservation
by Patrick Comins

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