Volunteer for Connecticut Audubon’s Osprey Nation project and help monitor and protect the state’s Osprey population! (We especially need people with boats.)

Ospreys on a nest in Westport. Photo by AJ Hand.

Help Wanted: Osprey Nation Stewards

Pay: $0

Hours: At your convenience

Job satisfaction: Off the charts!

Volunteer for Connecticut Audubon’s Osprey Nation project and help monitor and protect the state’s Osprey population! We especially need people with boats. Your tasks:

• Track Osprey arrival, nesting success, and departure dates.
• Share findings for Osprey Nation’s interactive Osprey map.
• Collect data that helps protect Osprey habitats and guide conservation efforts

If you’re interested, look at Connecticut Audubon’s Osprey Nation pages, including the Osprey map HERE.

Enlarge the map. The binocular icons indicate nests for which we still need volunteers.

If you find one or more nests you’d like to monitor in 2025, sign up HERE.

In the years since Osprey Nation began in 2014, well over 1,200 people have volunteered on behalf of the state’s Ospreys.

But each year, as the number of nests increases and as previous volunteers move on to other things, there’s a need for additional volunteers.

Volunteers choose or are assigned a nest, which they visit at least twice a month, from April until late in summer. They take and submit notes on their observations, especially the number of young Ospreys in the nest, the number who successfully leave the nest, and the dates on which that happens.

It’s an enjoyable task, and many volunteers have continued on for several years or more. Some of the nests are reachable only by boat, so if you are a sailor please consider volunteering.

Thank you!

Don’t forget: If you’re interested, look at Connecticut Audubon’s Osprey Nation pages, including the Osprey map HERE.

Enlarge the map. The binocular icons indicate nests for which we still need volunteers.

If you find one or more nests you’d like to monitor in 2025, sign up HERE.

Or email the 2025 Osprey Nation coordinator, Scott Kruitbosch: osprey@ctaudubon.org.