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120th Audubon Annual Christmas Bird Count Connecticut 2019-2020 schedule Saturday, December 14, 2019: New Haven, CT (CTNH) Compiler: Chris Loscalzo, 67 Wepawaug Road, Woodbridge, CT 06525 closcalz@optonline.net 203-389-6508 (New Haven Bird Club) Storrs, CT (CTST) Compiler: Steve Morytko, 288 Varga Road, Ashford, CT 06278 smorytko@yahoo.com (M) 860-680-5728 (Natchaug Ornithological Society) Woodbury-Roxbury, CT (CTWR) Compiler: Ken […]
Read more...October 10, 2019 — It was less than a month ago that a study in the journal Science reported that North America’s bird population had plummeted by 30 percent since 1970. Now another new study indicates that because of climate change the next 50 years and longer might be even more bleak for birds. The […]
Read more...September 30, 2019 – Last week Carol Kratzman, the teacher-naturalist at the Coastal Center, told me she would be tagging monarch butterflies in a couple of days and invited me to come along. I thought it would make a good story so I emailed Jill Dion, the editor of Hearst’s Milford Mirror. She responded with […]
Read more...September 20, 2019 – Anyone who has been involved in birding or bird conservation for the last several decades has no doubt sensed this, but yesterday’s paper, published in the Journal Science, on declines in bird populations is nonetheless shocking and disturbing. The study was led by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, the American Bird […]
Read more...Connecticut Audubon’s communications director, Tom Andersen, gave the following statement in support of strengthening the U.S. Endangered Species Act, at a news conference called by U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal on Friday, August 16, in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. I’m here to speak on behalf of the 17 kinds of plants and animals in Connecticut that are […]
Read more...We’ll text you when a rare bird is found in Connecticut and other nearby areas. We’ll also list it in this post, locate it on the map below, and include a link to this post. The alerts are by text only and you have to sign up to receive them! Click here to sign up! […]
Read more...If one of these birds shows up in Connecticut, we’ll send you a text, if you’ve signed up for the CT Audubon Rare Bird Alert. Fulvous Whistling-Duck Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Pink-footed Goose Barnacle Goose Graylag Goose Ross’s Goose Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Cinnamon Teal Tufted Duck King Eider Harlequin Duck Barrow’s Goldeneye Eared Grebe Western Grebe […]
Read more...July 25, 2019 – It’s easy to see the damage that invasive insects have done to Connecticut’s woods. But if you want to see ongoing examples of how to make the best of that unfortunate circumstance, they’re happening at two of our preserves. Infestations have ripped through Connecticut’s forests. For three years, spongy moths ate […]
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