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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 […]
Read more...Connecticut Audubon Society presented television personality and film producer Phil Donahue, a former Westport, Ct., resident, with its annual volunteer award for his dedication to helping restore the state’s population of Purple Martins, a threatened species, at its 116th annual meeting, Thursday, October 2, in New Haven. Milan Bull, Connecticut Audubon’s senior director of science […]
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Read more...Connecticut Audubon Society presented television personality and film producer Phil Donahue, a former Westport, Ct., resident, with its annual volunteer award for his dedication to helping restore the state’s population of Purple Martins, a threatened species, at its 116th annual meeting, Thursday, October 2, in New Haven. Milan Bull, Connecticut Audubon’s senior director of science […]
Read more...Brad Hittle, left, chief executive of Two Roads Brewing in Stratford, presents a check for $4,000 to Kaylee Weil, director of our Milford Point Coastal Center, and Connecticut Audubon President Alexander Brash. Two Roads generously made Connecticut Audubon Society the beneficiary of its Shore 2 the Pour Road Race in Stratford, on August 24, in […]
Read more...Fairfield, July 28, 2014 — Connecticut’s wide diversity of bird species is diminishing and is at risk of continued declines as habitats throughout the state suffer from neglect caused by a lack of conservation management. That’s the key finding of Connecticut Audubon Society’s annual Connecticut State of the Birds report, released today at a news […]
Read more...June 6, 2014 –Fifteen hundred elementary school students from Manchester and East Hartford participated in hands-on curriculum-based conservation science instruction at Connecticut Audubon Society’s Center at Glastonbury this spring, thanks to a grant from the SBM Charitable Foundation of Manchester. Through Connecticut Audubon’s flagship Science in Nature program, the students delved into conservation subjects such […]
Read more...The last Snowy Owls from the winter’s historic influx have migrated north, leaving bird lovers throughout Connecticut with months of great birding memories. Connecticut Audubon Society is marking the end of this memorable season by announcing the winners of its Great Snowy Owl Observation Contest of 2014. The winners are Donna Johnson Buckley, of Clinton, […]
Read more...Connecticut Audubon Society has launched a new weekly guide, called Connecticut Audubon Bird Finder, to help birders plan weekend trips to great outdoor settings throughout the state. Connecticut Audubon Bird Finder is a carefully curated guide to an unusual or interesting bird that has been sighted that week in a publicly-accessible location. The bulletins will […]
Read more...By Liz Acas for Connecticut Audubon Society NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The extinction of the once-abundant Passenger Pigeon shows that any species could be in danger today, author Joel Greenberg told a rapt audience at Yale University on March 12. Greenberg, author of the acclaimed book A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight […]
Read more...Snowy Owls have irrupted in the northeast this winter, invading in good numbers and providing a rare spectacle that is delighting birders and underscoring the region’s connectedness to events above the Arctic Circle. The influx of Snowies has attracted a good deal of media attention. Here’s the latest, a piece by WFSB in which the […]
Read more...November 2013 – Three centuries after they were extirpated in the state, Connecticut’s population of Wild Turkeys is large, stable and widespread – a reason to give thanks in an era when many of our local birds are declining. The Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is literally everywhere in Connecticut, occurring in all 169 of the […]
Read more...November 7, 2013 – Connecticut Audubon Society and Sacred Heart University of Fairfield have been awarded a $59,000 Long Island Sound Futures Fund grant to construct an innovative “living shoreline” project at Stratford Point to both improve critical bird and wildlife habitat and protect the state’s coastline from storms like Hurricane Sandy. The living shoreline […]
Read more...Connecticut Audubon Society President Alex Brash, along with Angela Bhushan, science director of the Bridgeport public school district, spent Tuesday morning in the field with a group of 35 Bridgeport 8th graders, conducting conservation science experiments to mark the second full year of our Science in Nature education program. The students, from the Curiale School, […]
Read more...The expert birders who participated in the Big Sit! fundraiser for our Milford Point Coastal Center on October 13 tallied 82 species and raised $1,100 and counting. Our Surf Scopers team, Patrick and Jim Dugan, and Frank Gallo, occupied an observation deck at Milford Point from before dawn til dusk, ears alert, binoculars and scopes […]
Read more...Connecticut Audubon Society’s 115th Annual Meeting, held September 12 in Southport, featured a talk by Alexander Brash, the organization’s new president, and a keynote address by Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communications. You can view both here.
Read more...Sept. 17, 2013 – Connecticut Audubon Society has awarded Philip W. Stein of Fairfield and James G. Denham of Essex the organization’s annual Dave Engelman Volunteer Benchmark Awards, in recognition of their years of service, at the CAS Annual Meeting in Southport on Thursday, Sept. 12. The award is given annually by the Board of […]
Read more...Fairfield, Aug. 28, 2013 – Alexander R. Brash, a longtime conservation leader and Connecticut resident with an extensive record of success managing non-profits and government agencies, has been named president of Connecticut Audubon Society. A skillful birder who is as comfortable scoping seabirds as he is in a meeting room, Brash will take on the […]
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