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April 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.
Read more...Volunteers – 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 […]
Read more...April 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.
Read more...“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 […]
Read more...March 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 […]
Read more...“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 […]
Read more...by 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 […]
Read more...December 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 […]
Read more...February 19, 2018 – For years conservationists have known that the population of Ospreys in Connecticut is large and thriving. But for the first time now, they know where almost all of the Osprey nests in the state are located and that there are probably very few unknown nests to be found. That’s a key […]
Read more...The following article was published first in The Connecticut Warbler, the journal of the Connecticut Ornithological Association. We are republishing it here on January 26, 2018, the 159th anniversary of Mabel’s birth! by Kathy Van Der Aue Chair, Connecticut Audubon Society Board of Directors It’s impossible to understand Birdcraft without knowing something of its founder, […]
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