Flyways: a poem for our lost birds by nature poet and new member, Hayley Kolding
Flyways I lived a good lifeand was reborn a sparrow.Towhee-likeI scratched meals on the groundwith both feetbut mostly I flew,threading a needlethrough dense thickets,wheeling in legionsabove power...
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Good News Update: Barn Swallows Successfully Nested at Conte National...
Barn Swallows nesting at the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge have had a successful season in 2020 in the Fort River Boat House. The full final report is available here. Season...
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When a city shut down, White-crowned Sparrows sang quieter, more complex songs
You may have heard it or even said it. “Nature is healing” has become a common refrain during the COVID-19 crisis, perhaps as a way to look for a bright side of a tragedy. And while some examples are...
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Coming Soon: Tracking American Kestrels with New Technology
Tracking migratory birds is getting much easier, thanks to the expansion of a continent-wide network of antennas that automatically receive signals from radio-tagged birds. This network, called the...
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Abundant Deer are Bad News for Understory Birds
Human activity has caused white-tailed deer numbers to swell beyond sustainable levels in the Northeast, which spells trouble for birds that nest in the forest understory. At certain Mass Audubon...
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A New Tool For Identifying Threats to Migratory Birds: the Motus Network
Across the US, conservationists are expanding a network of radio towers that automatically record the positions of radio-tagged birds as they pass nearby. Data from this initiative, called the Motus...
View ArticleCelebrating 30 Years of the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act
Conservation success stories rest on a bedrock of strong environmental laws. Many of Massachusetts’ most notable species recoveries, from the resurgence of Peregrine Falcons in cities to Bald Eagles...
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Save Bobolinks This Year Through The Bobolink Project
https://links.imagerelay.com/cdn/3299/ql/49e06a1a55994bd8a6864d3e71f8489a/Male_singing.MP4 Applications from interested farmers have been rolling in as Bobolinks have been starting to make their way...
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Radio-detecting Migrating Birds at Drumlin Farm
Anyone can view a list of radio-tagged migratory birds in transit over Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln— and follow their next stops in real time. An antenna installed at the sanctuary...
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Banding and Tracking Barn Swallows in Hadley
It was a buggy, humid morning over the fields of Conte National Wildlife Refuge in the summer of 2021, and the Barn Swallows were loving it. Fanning and tilting their forked tails, the birds feinted...
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