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SATURDAY, MARCH 11 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. $45 per person *New this year* Craft beers by local breweries including: Two Roads and New England Brewing   Also Featuring  Live Music by Matt Miklus and his String Band  Famous Audubon chili recipes   Live Birds of Prey Live auction of Audubon prints run by TV personality […]

 Spaces are still open!   Use this link to register now: Milford Point Coastal Center   NEW! Additional full-day week offered for Beachcombers (ages 5-7) July 24-28  SMARTER THAN A SQUID? 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Do squid have 8 legs, four, or even more?  Join us for a fun-filled week learning amazing facts, watching wildlife, […]

Sunday, January, 22  2–3 p.m.  Even in the midst of winter, if we really look, the world is filled with beautifully colored plants and animals. On our scavenger hunt, we’ll discover the many colors to be found outdoors before making marbled snowflakes to brighten the season. For children between the ages of 4 and 6 […]

For immediate release Fairfield, January 19, 2017 – The Connecticut Audubon Society has named longtime Fairfield resident Rick Boucher to lead its two busiest centers, in Fairfield and Milford, as well as its historic Birdcraft Sanctuary in Fairfield. Boucher, an outdoorsman with a long career in packaging, takes over in Fairfield from Nelson North, who […]

Sunday, January 15 2 – 3 p.m. Winter is a great time to look for animal tracks and traces! Come explore, and make a track guide to take on outdoor adventures. Dress for a short outdoor tracking walk. Appropriate for adults and families with children age 8 and up.  Members  $5/person, family maximum $20; Non-members  […]

Summer camps at the Center at Fairfield offer both hands-on learning and unlimited fun. Campers explore the woods, ponds and streams, meet animals up close, develop outdoor skills, and have enriching experiences that inspire a life-long appreciation of, and connection to, the natural world. Click here for the Summer Camps brochure. Don’t forget, registration begins […]

This fall, the town of Old Lyme hosted Senator Richard Blumenthal along with their First Selectwoman, Bonnie Reemsnyder, for a town hall meeting about the Federal Rail Association’s proposal for a tunnel under the Connecticut River. The Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center was crucial to the writing of an 82-page response to the proposal, contributing […]

Join the Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center on February 18 from 2-4 for an afternoon with owls at Acton Public Library! Our educators will be presenting Cookie, the barred owl, while we learn about owl anatomy and examine real feathers from other species. Then, participate in an owl pellet dissection and identify mammal bones. The program […]

The Connecticut Audubon Society is accepting applications for the 2017 Edwin Way Teale Artists-in-Residence at Trail Wood program. Through the program, started in 2012, the Connecticut Audubon Society invites writers and visual artists to spend a week in residence at Trail Wood, in Hampton. The writers and artists are chosen through a juried process. Trail […]

December 6, 2016 – The Connecticut Audubon Society has called on Bridgeport officials to halt the mowing of a small plot of city-owned land, to prevent protected birds from being disturbed while on their nest. For several years, a Bridgeport resident voluntarily mowed a plot of city land on Arthur Street that also contained an […]

January 8, 2018 – With the help of a generous grant from the SBM Charitable Foundation of Manchester, the Connecticut Audubon Society will expand its Science in Nature outdoor education program to 79 additional classrooms in Hartford and Windham counties, doubling the number of elementary school children who have participated in the program there. SBMCF […]

January 3, 2018 – Connecticut’s birds are generally well-adapted to New England winters. But that doesn’t mean you can’t help them get through periods that are particularly cold and snowy. Like now. The keys are food and water. Give your local birds plenty of nutritious food to eat. That does not include bread, by the […]

  We hope to have as many of our 19 sanctuaries as possible included in the areas surveyed by the Connecticut Bird Atlas. We are also scheduling training and information sessions for Atlas organizers and participants. RSVPs are essential. Click the links below. Sessions are scheduled for: Tuesday, December 12, 6:30 p.m., co-hosted at Great […]

 Deer Pond Farm covers 835 acres of rugged hardwood forest, meadows, and wetlands straddling the state border of Connecticut and New York. Connecticut Audubon Society acquired the property in 2017 thanks to a generous bequest from the estate of Kathryn M. Wriston. Deer Pond Farm gives Connecticut Audubon a major new location in the western […]

The Connecticut Audubon Society seeks a full-time, senior-level manager for one of the organization’s centers, in western Connecticut. The Center Director is responsible for carrying out or overseeing overall management, programming, maintenance, and communications activities of the Center, as well as for establishing and maintaining relationships with its neighboring communities. The Center Director will be […]

The Piping Plover lives life on the edge. And not in a good way. The only place she nests is on the beach, which she often has to share with thousands of people. She gets chased from her nest when she should be sitting on her eggs. Eggs get stepped on; her babies get crushed. […]