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June 24, 2015 – The Connecticut Audubon Society has a new logo and a new look, and we are pleased and proud to be able to share it today with our members and supporters. We unveiled the new logo this morning at a lively event with our summer camp kids in Fairfield (read the news […]
Read more...May 5, 2015 – The Connecticut Audubon Society is pleased to announce the formation of a new regional board focused on the lower Connecticut River valley. The new regional board will work in conjunction with Connecticut Audubon Society staff and state Board of Directors to provide direction and support to the organization’s conservation and education […]
Read more...March 10, 2015 In 2014 Connecticut Audubon Society launched Osprey Nation[i], a statewide program aimed to monitor and help enhance the osprey population in the state. In a two pronged approach, the Connecticut Audubon Society has sought to support and facilitate scientific research on the ospreys, particularly the large colony at the mouth […]
Read more...January 26, 2015 – Before last winter, the common wisdom was that the Snowy Owls that occasionally left their Arctic breeding grounds to winter further south did so because they were desperate for food and arrived in our area exhausted and starving. But according to Don Crockett, who develops the interactive Snowy Owl maps for […]
Read more...From 1959 until his death in 1980, Edwin Way Teale, who won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1966, observed the natural world from his home in Hampton, writing down what he saw and heard and turning his observations into two books, including A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm. Teale’s land and former home is […]
Read more...Connecticut Audubon Society has been awarded an $34,440 3M Eco Grant to identify natural habitats near Meriden elementary schools where students can participate in Connecticut Audubon’s award-winning Science in Nature education program. The grant is the second 3M Eco Grant that Connecticut Audubon Society has been awarded in three years. The first was used to […]
Read more...The Summer Camp Director oversees the summer camp programs for ages 3-12. The director will train, supervise and evaluate teaching staff, volunteers, and teach occasionally. This position includes administrative duties related to summer camp, including maintaining camp license, staff professionalism, high quality of teaching and fostering a fun learning environment. Full time seasonal position; the […]
Read more...The John Patrick Flanagan Foundation has once again generously provided Connecticut Audubon Society with a grant for its Trail Blazers program, which brings Bridgeport public school students to our Center at Fairfield and its Larsen Sanctuary for a day of science education in the outdoors. Students in the Trail Blazers program learn about conservation science […]
Read more...Perhaps you’ve gone on one of our nature walks, read about our work in the press, chanced upon us in a blog or on Facebook, or received our weekly Bird Finder email. Have you wondered what exactly Connecticut Audubon Society does, or what we stand for?
Are we simply an organization of bird watchers, or do we stand for something larger?
Connecticut Audubon Society aims to be the leading conservation organization in the state, and we seek to do that by leveraging the charismatic nature of birds to inspire a stronger conservation ethos.
Read more...October 31, 2014 – Connecticut Audubon Society’s new suite of Science in Nature education programs, which in just two years have brought hands-on outdoor science education to 15,000 students throughout the state, has been honored as the region’s outstanding environmental education program by the New England Environmental Education Alliance. Established in 2012, Science in Nature […]
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