National Audubon Society

Migratory birds like the Mourning Warbler rely on habitat across Canada, the U.S., and Central and South America throughout the year. Audubon proudly honors those who are taking action to conserve the habitat they need across the hemisphere. On November 19, will recognize the Lyme Timber Company of the US and Canada, and the Red Nacional de Observadores de Aves of Colombia, for creating quality habitat at-scale at our 2025 Keese Awards Luncheon in NYC—and you’re invited! For nearly two decades, The Lyme Timber Company has stewarded 234,000 acres of forest in New York’s Adirondack Mountains with a sustainable, science-based approach that demonstrates that commercial timber harvesting can create diverse forest habitat for birds and other wildlife. These same birds that depend on healthy Adirondack forests migrate to and from the tropical forests of Colombia, where the Red Nacional de Observadores de Aves (RNOA) is prioritizing their success. Audubon, RNOA, and the Humboldt Institute jointly facilitated the creation of Colombia’s 2030 National Bird Conservation Strategy—a collaborative effort of over 2,000 organizations yielding high-impact results in habitat conservation. Get your tickets and learn more about the 2025 Keese Awards Luncheon and our honorees: bit.ly/47DDeHe

This week is Birdability Week, a yearly event focused on ensuring that the birding community and the outdoors are welcoming, inclusive, safe, and accessible for everybody through education, outreach, and advocacy. As a proud sponsor of Birdability Week 2025, Audubon celebrates and strives for more inclusive and accessible communities for every bird-lover. Learn how you can participate and see a schedule of Birdability Week events: bit.ly/4onMyo2

Already this migration season, millions of birds have flown from their northern breeding grounds to winter in warmer climates in the Southeastern U.S. through to South America. On these migrations, they face a wide range of hazards, from intense storms to power lines to, unfortunately, windows. However, thanks to West Volusia Audubon Society and Stetson University partnering to install bird-safe markers on high-risk buildings, the journey for birds flying through Florida has recently gotten a bit safer. Read more and learn what you can do to protect migrating birds from window collisions: bit.ly/4qgrCRJ

Climate change is dramatically changing bird habitat. Millions of birds might not survive. One solution? Clean energy. Birds need responsibly developed offshore wind energy that prioritizes their protection and their habitats. National Wildlife Federation's new documentary project spoke with Audubon experts on how bird science and monitoring is coming together to make it happen.

Anyone attending the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi this week? 🙋🏻♀️ Follow Chad W. and Chris Dragisic to learn all about the science Audubon experts are bringing to the table.

Audubon has welcomed its 100th campus chapter, the Howard University Green Coalition! Unlike some chapters, Howard University's group has never focused on birds before, but they're quite excited to start! We've written about the journeys that led them to birds and how they plan to connect their fellow students to birds. Enjoy! https://bit.ly/4ohwt3u

Have you heard about one of the largest conservation projects in the world happening right now in the Boreal Forest? We applaud the Seal River Watershed Alliance's Indigenous-led conservation efforts to protect a massive 12.5-million-acre in northern Manitoba. It has made them this year’s recipients of the Audubon Hemispheric Conservation Award. And we are grateful and proud to support their work for this vitally important bird habitat! https://bit.ly/4h1tny5

At Climate Week NYC, thousands of people came together with brilliant solutions for the climate. It gave us so much hope! We are so grateful for our partners working for a better future for people and wildlife and all those who joined NYC Bird Alliance, BirdLife International, Dustin Partridge, PhD, Sarah Rose, and Tod Winston for our Climate Week bird outing in Central Park. Thank you to Audubon staff Brooke L Bateman, Chad Wilsey, Daniel Suarez, and Meghan Ryan for taking part in The Nest Climate Campus and Climate Group events. They highlighted how we can collaboratively make progress on climate change and biodiversity loss while halting and ultimately reversing bird population declines, or “bending the bird curve.” Our big take aways? 🌳 We're seeing promising work in forest and grassland conservation that we must keep building on. 🏅 Conservation can provide Win-Win-Win solutions that protect bird habitat, store and sequester carbon, and improve human well-being. 🌎 From community science to global advocacy there is so much we can do for birds and people! What are your big take aways from Climate Week NYC? Times Square Billboard Bird Videos, from left: Nancy Morrison/Audubon Photography Awards; Anand Varma/WonderLab.

Our third stop on the It All Begins with Birds: Bird Migration Celebration Tour is Phoenix, Arizona, where we’ll be streaming live from Rio Salado Audubon Center’s Monarch Tagging Workshop. Join us on YouTube Live on Saturday, October 4 at 12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET for a thought-provoking conversation with representatives from Audubon Southwest, Southwest Monarch Study, and the Office of Environmental Programs for the City of Phoenix. We'll be discussing the intertwined journeys of birds and butterflies—and the native plants that help them thrive. Live Spanish interpretation will be available. https://bit.ly/3W66iRn

I spent last night reminiscing about the impact Jane Goodall has had on my life. From a young girl dreaming of studying animals, to a career in conservation - Jane was my icon.   I had the rare pleasure of knowing Jane - working together on Tanzania's National Chimpanzee Conservation Plan, staying at her house in Gombe National Park, and spending time in the wild with the chimps that made her famous.   Yesterday the world lost one of our greatest conservation heros. Let us honor her legacy by striving to act with the same courage, compassion, and relentless hope she carried every day.   Let us all strive to “be like Jane.”