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Recycling Fishing Line to Save Birds

August 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 […]

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Endangered Sedge Wrens are Nesting and Drawing a Crowd at our Sanctuary in Pomfret

July 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.

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Connecticut Audubon Joins Senator Blumenthal in Opposing Changes to the Endangered Species Act

July 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. […]

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Deer Pond Farm in Sherman is Now Open Year-round, Seven Days a Week

  July 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, […]

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Charity Navigator Awards the Connecticut Audubon Society its Highest Rating — 4 Stars!

June 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 […]

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Action Alert: House fisheries bill would harm Connecticut’s birds

Please 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 […]

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Volunteers plant hundreds of trees and shrubs to help transform Smith Richardson into prime habitat

May 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 […]

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Milford Point’s Coastal Ranger: Finding Rare Birds while Protecting the Vulnerable Ones

“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 […]

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Grant will expand Schoolyard Science in Nature to Meriden middle schools

$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 […]

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It’s tree-planting time at Smith Richardson Preserve and you can help

April 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 […]

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