Snowy Owls have irrupted in the northeast this winter, invading in good numbers and providing a rare spectacle that is delighting birders and underscoring the region’s connectedness to events above the Arctic Circle. The influx of Snowies has attracted a good deal of media attention. Here’s the latest, a piece by WFSB in which the […]
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Snowy Owls Drop in from the Arctic
Monday, December 9th, 2013Connecticut Audubon’s List of Top 10 Turkey Towns Shows that Wild Turkeys, Once Nearly Wiped Out, Are Now Widespread and Common
Friday, November 22nd, 2013November 2013 – Three centuries after they were extirpated in the state, Connecticut’s population of Wild Turkeys is large, stable and widespread – a reason to give thanks in an era when many of our local birds are declining. The Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is literally everywhere in Connecticut, occurring in all 169 of the […]
Innovative “Living Shoreline” Will Help Improve Bird Habitat at Stratford Point
Thursday, November 7th, 2013November 7, 2013 – Connecticut Audubon Society and Sacred Heart University of Fairfield have been awarded a $59,000 Long Island Sound Futures Fund grant to construct an innovative “living shoreline” project at Stratford Point to both improve critical bird and wildlife habitat and protect the state’s coastline from storms like Hurricane Sandy. The living shoreline […]
Bridgeport 8th Graders Mark the Second Year of Science in Nature
Wednesday, October 30th, 2013Connecticut Audubon Society President Alex Brash, along with Angela Bhushan, science director of the Bridgeport public school district, spent Tuesday morning in the field with a group of 35 Bridgeport 8th graders, conducting conservation science experiments to mark the second full year of our Science in Nature education program. The students, from the Curiale School, […]
“Big Sit!” Results and Video
Thursday, October 24th, 2013The expert birders who participated in the Big Sit! fundraiser for our Milford Point Coastal Center on October 13 tallied 82 species and raised $1,100 and counting. Our Surf Scopers team, Patrick and Jim Dugan, and Frank Gallo, occupied an observation deck at Milford Point from before dawn til dusk, ears alert, binoculars and scopes […]
2013 Annual Meeting: Addresses by CAS President Alex Brash and Yale’s Anthony Leiserowitz
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013Connecticut Audubon Society’s 115th Annual Meeting, held September 12 in Southport, featured a talk by Alexander Brash, the organization’s new president, and a keynote address by Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communications. You can view both here.
Dave Engelman Volunteer Award Presented to Philip W. Stein and James G. Denham
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013Sept. 17, 2013 – Connecticut Audubon Society has awarded Philip W. Stein of Fairfield and James G. Denham of Essex the organization’s annual Dave Engelman Volunteer Benchmark Awards, in recognition of their years of service, at the CAS Annual Meeting in Southport on Thursday, Sept. 12. The award is given annually by the Board of […]
News Release: Connecticut Audubon Society Names Alexander R. Brash of Riverside as New President
Wednesday, August 28th, 2013Fairfield, Aug. 28, 2013 – Alexander R. Brash, a longtime conservation leader and Connecticut resident with an extensive record of success managing non-profits and government agencies, has been named president of Connecticut Audubon Society. A skillful birder who is as comfortable scoping seabirds as he is in a meeting room, Brash will take on the […]
Science-Based Conservation Management Projects Underway in Norwalk and Orange
Monday, July 8th, 2013July 2013 – Fresh off the completion of a major conservation and management plan for Aspetuck Land Trust’s Trout Brook Valley preserve, Connecticut Audubon Society’s conservation biologists have embarked on similar projects for the Norwalk Land Trust and the town of Orange. In Norwalk, our Conservation Services staff is working on Hoyt Island, which covers […]
‘Science in Nature’ Education Program Reaches 2,000 Students In Its First Year
Monday, July 8th, 2013July 2013 – Connecticut Audubon Society’s Science in Nature program, inaugurated just nine months ago, has already brought more than 2,000 students from Bridgeport, Meriden and Fairfield to our sanctuaries for outdoor conservation education designed to complement their classroom studies. These students are the first to participate in Science in Nature, which is the foundation […]
Connecticut’s Best Nature Sanctuaries, Chosen by Yankee Magazine: Bafflin & Trail Wood
Monday, May 20th, 2013May 2013 – Like good parents, we don’t make judgments about which of our 19 sanctuaries are better than the others. We love them all. But that doesn’t mean others can’t render a judgment. The editors of Yankee Magazine have done just that, choosing Trail Wood and the Bafflin Sanctuary, in northeast Connecticut, as the […]
Tracking Legislation in Hartford: 2013
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013Updated June 7, 2013, with results of each bill … Connecticut Audubon Society is working in partnership with several conservation organizations to help pass legislation in Hartford in 2013. Click on each bill in the list below for details. Bills We SupportAn Act Concerning the Application of Pesticides in Municipal Parks, SB 914 (changed to […]
News Release: Connecticut State of the Birds 2013 – Long-term Population Decline is Decimating Aerial Insectivores
Friday, February 22nd, 2013Fairfield, Ct., Feb. 22, 2013 – Concerned with the dramatic decline of 17 species of birds that nest in Connecticut and eat only insects caught while flying, Connecticut Audubon Society today called for a multi-agency program of research and assessment along with immediate remedies such as cuts in pesticide use and the creation of man-made […]
3M Eco Grant Enables Connecticut Audubon Society To Teach Outdoor Conservation Education to 650 Meriden Public School Students
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013MERIDEN, CT., January 14, 2013 – Connecticut Audubon Society has been awarded a $49,000 3M Eco Grant to bring its innovative Science In Nature outdoor education program to approximately 650 Meriden public school students. The program will be conducted at Connecticut Audubon’s Center at Glastonbury, where the Meriden students will spend 8 hours in […]
Hurricane Sandy “Rapid Assessment” Study Finds Significant Habitat Damage from Virginia to Massachusetts, Including Connecticut
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013Participating Conservation Scientists from Connecticut Audubon Society Reviewed Six Critical Habitats Along the State’s Coast and Found Major Erosion that Could Hinder Vulnerable Coastal Breeding Birds January 10, 2013 – In the days after Hurricane Sandy hit the coast, Connecticut Audubon Society’s conservation staff made field visits to six important habitats in the state and […]
500 Students Participate in ‘Science in Nature’ at the Larsen Sanctuary
Thursday, January 10th, 2013November 2012 – If you find yourself on the trails of our Larsen Sanctuary in Fairfield these days, keep your eyes and ears open for unusual activity. You may see movement in the distance and, with leaves falling and covering the ground, you’re likely to hear feet scuffling loudly (or maybe not if there’s snow). […]
Dunes Prevented Severe Erosion at Stratford Point
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013November 2012 – When Hurricane Sandy hit, the dunes we constructed last year at Stratford Point to control erosion did their job, protecting the point from a storm surge that might have inundated an area extending well beyond our coastal restoration project. Built of long, geo-textile tubes filled with sand and soil, and covered with […]
News Release: Aspetuck Land Trust Sets New Policies at Trout Brook Valley Preserve Following Study By Connecticut Audubon Society
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013WESTON, CT. Jan. 2, 2013 – After a 12-month conservation and management study of its popular 1,009 acre Trout Brook Valley Conservation Area, Aspetuck Land Trust today announced new trail use policies that carefully balance the protection of one of the region’s most important ecological areas with the use of the preserve for hiking, dog-walking […]
Restoring Habitat at Banks Farm South
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012October 2012 – Banks Farm South, 60 acres of meadows, wetlands and forest, hearkens back to Fairfield’s early farmland history. Wedged between a golf course and a gated community on the Fairfield-Westport town line, the sanctuary was originally owned by John Banks in the seventeenth century and has been farmed almost continually since. Robert and […]
Celebrating 30 Years of Outdoor Education at the Center at Glastonbury
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012October 2012 – Connecticut Audubon Society’s Center at Glastonbury is celebrating its 30th anniversary this fall by highlighting its key role in Connecticut Audubon’s statewide education program. Founded on October 2, 1982, the Center at Glastonbury has been a gathering place for residents of Glastonbury, South Glastonbury, Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, Portland, Manchester, East Hartford, Hartford, […]
