“Now may just be the perfect time to take up the meditative, educational, and inclusive hobby known as birding -- an easy social-distancing activity year-round, including the fall and winter months… While birding is a relatively accessible hobby in general, some may find it challenging to get … [Read more...]
#BigYearAtHome November Challenge – Urban Birding (#UrbanBirding)
For our November challenge the #BigYearAtHome Team encourages participants to: Learn more about #UrbanBirding Hotspots and Urban National Wildlife Refuges near you, and Go and visit one of your local #UrbanBirding Hotspots or Urban National Wildlife Refuges. WHAT IS URBAN BIRDING? SIMPLY … [Read more...]
The Urban Bird Treaty Program: Making local communities healthier places for birds and people
#BigYearAtHome Team and US Fish and Wildlife Service Urban Bird Treaty Program The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Urban Bird Treaty Program supports public-private partnerships in U.S. cities that are working to make local communities healthier places for birds and people. Program partners … [Read more...]
October #BigYearAtHome challenge — “Sing, Fly, Soar – Like a Bird,” with World Migratory Bird Day
from the #BigYearAtHome Team and Environment for the Americas Autumn migration is the first major challenge in the life cycle of migratory birds as young birds leave their nests and make their first flights to wintertime places where they have never been before. For our October #BigYearAtHome … [Read more...]
Interior Great Lakes National Wildlife Refuge System facilities selected for bird-friendly facility challenge
UW Fish and Wildlife Service Ottawa, Neal Smith and Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuges, as well as the La Crosse District of Upper Mississippi River National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, will be receiving funds for the Interior Great Lakes Region billion bird-friendly facility … [Read more...]
Birding While Biking: A First-Foot Account of a Green Big Year
#BigYearAtHome Team In celebration of the August #BigYearAtHome challenge, #BirdingFromHome, we are featuring a fun article by Mike Green, a #BigYearAtHome Team Member. Mike works with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Division of Migratory Birds and each year he and his fellow staff members … [Read more...]
#BigYearAtHome August Challenge – Birding From Home (#BirdingFromHome)
the #BigYearAtHome Team Our August #BigYearAtHome challenge is to bird watch from home (#BirdingFromHome) – truly a challenge that is within the nature of the #BigYearAtHome campaign. This challenge is inspired by the relatively new green birding movement. What is the green birding … [Read more...]
#BigYearAtHome July Challenges — Explore and Share
#BigYearAtHome Team In July we challenge our #BigYearAtHome community to 1) Explore a National Wildlife Refuge and 2) Take a Kid Birding. Explore our National Wildlife Refuge System and the birds that use the habitats that our National Wildlife Refuges protect and … [Read more...]
Riparian Restoration Gives Birds a Chance
Becki Robins and Emma Havstad of River Partners Originally published by the Sonoran Joint Venture The endangered Least Bell’s Vireo was once common in San Diego and California’s Central Valley until habitat loss and other threats propelled their decline. Multiple efforts including riparian habitat … [Read more...]
Migratory connectivity is a powerful tool for conservation and collaboration: The Common Nighthawk migratory connectivity project
Elly Knight, University of Alberta Studying a species that is poorly understood has many challenges, but it also brings opportunity; most importantly the opportunity to build a community from the ground up. That’s the approach we’ve taken to studying the Common Nighthawk. Elegant yet enigmatic: … [Read more...]