August 7, 2018 — The coves, inlets and backwaters of the Connecticut River estuary are among the region’s most important refuges for waterfowl during migration and through the winter. Dabbling ducks – Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler, Mallard, Black Duck, Gadwall – gather there to find safe cover among the vegetation and to feast on the […]
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Press Release – Student scientists from Mount Holyoke uncover important habitat changes in the Connecticut River estuary
Monday, August 6th, 2018A Successful Summer for Purple Martins at the Coastal Center
Wednesday, August 1st, 2018August 2, 2018 – The population of Purple Martins continues to rise at the Milford Point Coastal Center. This summer, 128 nestlings were fitted with identifying leg bands by a team of staff and volunteers from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Connecticut Audubon Society. Last year there were 107, in […]
Recycling Fishing Line to Save Birds
Wednesday, August 1st, 2018August 1, 2018 – Parts of the waterfront in Fairfield and Bridgeport will soon be getting new recycling tubes for the safe disposal of the monofilament fishing line that can strangle or disable birds who get caught in it. A team of volunteers is building and installing the tubes. Madeline Dennis Raleigh of Black Rock […]
Endangered Sedge Wrens are Nesting and Drawing a Crowd at our Sanctuary in Pomfret
Wednesday, July 18th, 2018July 19, 2018. A tiny endangered bird that rarely nests in the state has made a home this year at the Connecticut Audubon Society’s Bafflin Sanctuary in Pomfret.
Connecticut Audubon Joins Senator Blumenthal in Opposing Changes to the Endangered Species Act
Friday, July 27th, 2018July 27, 2018 – Executive Director Patrick Comins joined U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal and other conservationists at a press conference in New Haven today to advocate against changes being proposed for the federal Endangered Species Act. Read the New Haven Register’s coverage here. Listen to Patrick being interviewed on the subject by WFUV radio here. […]
Deer Pond Farm in Sherman is Now Open Year-round, Seven Days a Week
Friday, June 22nd, 2018July 7, 2018 –After a year of preparation, the Connecticut Audubon Society’s Deer Pond Farm in Sherman opened its 10 miles of trails to the public today with a grand opening and ribbon cutting. The preserve, at 57 Wakeman Hill Road, Sherman, is now open from dawn to dusk, 365 days a year, hiking, […]
Charity Navigator Awards the Connecticut Audubon Society its Highest Rating — 4 Stars!
Tuesday, June 26th, 2018June 26, 2018 – The Connecticut Audubon Society is pleased to announce that it recently earned the highest rating from Charity Navigator, the nation’s largest evaluator of charities, for its strong financial health and for conserving Connecticut’s environment in a financially efficient way. “This exceptional designation from Charity Navigator sets Connecticut Audubon Society apart from […]
Action Alert: House fisheries bill would harm Connecticut’s birds
Monday, June 25th, 2018Please Note: This vote was postponed and is now scheduled for July 11. Monday, June 25 – A bill being voted on tomorrow by the U.S. House of Representatives has the potential to do great harm to birds in Connecticut and beyond. The bill is H.R. 200. It would change the very successful Magnuson-Stevens Act […]
Volunteers plant hundreds of trees and shrubs to help transform Smith Richardson into prime habitat
Tuesday, May 29th, 2018May 29, 2018 – The transformation of the H. Smith Richardson Wildlife Preserve into a first-rate coastal habitat for birds and native plants is making great progress. Well over 100 volunteers, led by Connecticut Audubon Board members Charles Stebbins and Jerid O’Connell, planted 450 trees and shrubs at the preserve in late April. Volunteers included […]
Milford Point’s Coastal Ranger: Finding Rare Birds while Protecting the Vulnerable Ones
Friday, May 25th, 2018“Basically nobody birding in Connecticut today had ever seen the bird in the state. It was one of the best finds in the 25 years I’ve lived in Connecticut.” Milford, May 25, 2018 – Let’s face it – in an age of self-promotion and personal branding, being the IBA Coastal Ranger at Milford Point is not […]
Grant will expand Schoolyard Science in Nature to Meriden middle schools
Monday, April 30th, 2018$15,000 grant will fund bioswales, reducing river pollution and forming “living classrooms” April 30, 2018 – Meriden sixth graders will design and study pollution-filtering gardens that reduce harmful runoff into the Quinnipiac River right in their own schoolyards, thanks to a $15,000 grant that will bring a Connecticut Audubon Society program to new two schools […]
It’s tree-planting time at Smith Richardson Preserve and you can help
Wednesday, April 25th, 2018April 25, 2018 – Volunteers are needed to plant dozens of trees at the H. Smith Richardson Wildlife Preserve during two workdays this weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, April 28, and 29, the Connecticut Audubon Society will gather a group at the Westport preserve from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to plant more than 100 […]
Connecticut Audubon founder remembered in New York museum show as conservation pioneer
Monday, April 16th, 2018April 16, 2018 – A fascinating new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society on the passage of a landmark conservation law features items from Connecticut Audubon Society’s Birdcraft Museum collection related to its founder, Mabel Osgood Wright.
Help shoreline habitat this Earth Day by volunteering at Stratford Point
Thursday, April 12th, 2018Volunteers – the general public and school groups – can help restore the shoreline at Stratford Point at two upcoming events for Earth Day sponsored by Sacred Heart University’s Department of Biology, the Connecticut Audubon Society, Audubon Connecticut, and the Rotary Club of Stratford. Students and faculty from Sacred Heart University’s Department of Biology are […]
Native Plant Sale at Oliver Nurseries in Fairfield to Benefit Connecticut Audubon’s Local Conservation Work
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019April 10, 2019 – Connecticut Audubon is once again teaming up with Oliver Nurseries in Fairfield to offer native Connecticut trees, shrubs and perennials at remarkable discounts to Connecticut Audubon members.
Welcome the Piping Plovers Back by Volunteering for the Audubon Alliance
Thursday, March 8th, 2018“If you want to be involved in a program that clearly is successful, this is it.” March 8, 2018 – Piping Plovers will be migrating back to Connecticut’s beaches any day now and conservationists are preparing to do everything possible to help them have a breeding season as successful as last year’s, starting with training […]
Piping Plover Monitoring at Refurbished Hammonasset Beach
Thursday, March 8th, 2018March 8, 2018 – The Connecticut Audubon Society, working under a contract with the Connecticut Port Authority, is beginning a program to monitor the population of Piping Plovers at Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison. The program is part of the follow up work required as a condition of federal approval for a dredging project […]
In Opposition to Offshore Oil Drilling
Thursday, March 8th, 2018“The plan would put the thousands of sea and coastal birds at risk including the hundreds of nesting Ospreys which are totally dependent on the migrant fish population in Long Island Sound.” The Connecticut Audubon Society has joined scores of other organizations in opposing the Trump Administration’s plan to expand offshore oil drilling. Here are […]
Beauty for Beauty’s Sake: Richard Prum Delivers Spring Lecture to Connecticut Audubon Members & Others
Wednesday, March 7th, 2018by Liz Acas, for the Connecticut Audubon Society March 8, 2018 – Richard O. Prum is an esteemed scientist, the winner of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, and the author of a New York Times pick for best book of 2017. But, importantly, executive director Patrick M. Comins told the audience at Connecticut Audubon’s sold-out […]
Press Release – Motus Operandi: Connecticut Audubon is participating in state of the art migratory bird tracking technology
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018December 5, 2018 – Is it big news that a bird flew past our Deer Pond Farm preserve in Sherman? In the case of the Rusty Blackbird at 2:15 a.m. on November 8, the answer is yes. That lone fly over – of Euphagus carolinus, to be precise – was the first bird detected by […]
