In the News
Here’s a sampling of local news accounts of Connecticut Audubon’s activities:
Connecticut State of the Birds 2020
NBC TV
December 18, 2020: Impacts from Covid 19 lead to lowest productivity in decades for loca bird species
WSHU
December 22, 2020: Coronavirus Habits Disrputed Connecticut Piping Plovers
Horseshoe crabs & Red Knots
NBC TV
February 17, 2020: Push to stop horseshoe crab harvesting
New Haven Register
February 18, 2020: Audubon Society urges ban on CT horseshoe crab harvesting
WSHU
February 18, 2020: Horseshoe Crab Fishing Ban May Bright Red Knot Birds Back to Connecticut
Roosting vultures
NBC CT
February 13, 2020: Vultures find a temporary home in Norwich
Piping Plovers
February 13, 2020
New London Day: Piping Plover populations are making a comeback
Wildlife tracks
February 8, 2020
Danbury News Times: Deciphering the many wildlife tracks (featuring Connecticut Audubon photos)
Migratory Bird Protection Act of 2020
January 25, 2020
Danbury News Times: Battling for birds
Bird population declines
January 16, 2020
Hartford Magazine: Connecticut is Losing Many of its Birds
Birds of the Year
December 28, 2019
Stamford Advocate: Shy sparrow, gull-chaser among 2019 Birds of the Year
Connecticut State of the Birds 2019
December 5, 2019
Hartford Courant: Climate change has pushed Long Island Sound and its birds “to the edge of major, hard to predict changes,” report says
December 6, 2019
Public News Service (radio): Report: Changing Climate Threatens CT Birds
Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds
November 19, 2019
Hartford Courant: Some threatened shoreline birds had good years in Connecticut, others not so much
New Haven Register: 2019 a good year for Connecticut’s piping plovers, oystercatchers
Habitat improvement at Deer Pond Farm
October 18, 2019
Danbury News Times: Sherman’s Deer Pond Farm turns destruction into new habitats
Bird population declines
October 3, 2019
Norwich Bulletin: How much fun would it be to dine with a downy woodpecker?
Monarch butterflies
September 29, 2019
Connecticut Post: Monarch butterflies tagged in conservation effort
Ospreys
August 8, 2019
Fox 61: Osprey population continues to rise in Connecticut after conservation efforts
Purple Martins
July 9, 2019
New Haven Register: Bird banding helps track CT’s purple martins
Deer Pond Farm
June 7, 2019
Danbury News Times: Sherman birding preserve opens New York side to public
Ospreys
March 5, 2019
Where We Live, WNPR
Barred Owls
January 31, 2019
NBC CT: This is why you are seeing more barred owls in CT
March 2, 2019
Manchester Journal Inquirer: Keep your eyes peeled barred owl sightings, injuries on rise on state
