Annually, Audubon seeks to financially help campus and group chapters by offering grants for affiliated chapters engaged on conservation tasks. These grants are one in all many ways in which Audubon invests within the work of chapters and prioritizes work that’s rooted in advancing the shared objectives outlined in Flight Plan. Presently, these grants take two types: Audubon in Motion Grants and Collaborative Grants.
Competitors was robust this 12 months, with a report 76 Audubon in Motion functions requesting a mixed complete of almost $850,000, greater than triple the quantity of obtainable funds. Topic-matter specialists reviewed functions pertaining to the Flight Plan milestones of Habitat Conservation, Coverage, Group Constructing, and Local weather, enabling us to prioritize funding impactful work that may drive Flight Plan ahead for these milestones.
This cycle, Audubon is proud to award grant funding to 68 totally different campus and group chapter tasks. Tasks from 28 states, Guam, and the District of Columbia have been represented among the many award recipients.
Of the funded Audubon in Motion and Collaborative Grant tasks:
- 68% help the Group Constructing milestone
- 24% help the Habitat Conservation milestone
- 6% help the Local weather Motion milestone
- 2% help the Coverage milestone
Audubon in Motion Grant Tasks
Maricopa Chicken Alliance – Phoenix, Arizona
Preserving and Reviving an City Flocking Hotspot
Maricopa Chicken Alliance goals to revive the ecosystem of a panorama revered by historic peoples for hundreds of years. To counterpoint the world with native flora, arthropods, avifauna, and different wildlife, a yearlong marketing campaign of group occasions and academic workshops will allow native planting, water supply creation, invasive plant removing, trash removing, and habitat creation. These efforts will restore a semblance of the unique panorama with successes measured by group engagement and growing biodiversity, with explicit consideration and surveys for resident and migratory birds.
Northern Arizona Audubon Society – Sedona, Arizona
Wings Throughout Borders: Monitoring Wildlife, Connecting Cultures: Part II Pupil Motus Grants
This Northern Arizona Audubon Society program will have interaction college students from Mexico, Arizona, and Canada as storytellers, following birds that migrate by northern Arizona and contributing to cross-hemispheric conservation consciousness. Northern Arizona Audubon Society will develop its Motus program by storytelling, offering hands-on coaching and mentorship to interact youth in group science and fostering worldwide connections from Mexico to Canada.
Golden Gate Chicken Alliance – Berkeley, California
Birding for Everybody Fellowship
The mission of the Birding for Everybody Fellowship is to develop and empower the subsequent era of Black, Indigenous, and folks of colour conservation leaders by a full 12 months of free birding and ecology courses in addition to conservation and advocacy alternatives provided by Golden Gate Chicken Alliance in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences and California Audubon.
San Diego Chicken Alliance – San Diego, California
Sharing Our Shores: Mission Bay
This can be a multi-tiered program that accomplishes roughly 5 acres of habitat restoration whereas educating third and fourth-grade college students about native migratory and coastal birds within the native habitat of Mission Bay, San Diego. Via in-class classes and restoration occasions in coastal habitats, college students will find out about and take motion to enhance nesting habitat for the endangered California Least Tern and Gentle-footed Ridgway’s Rail and can discover the historical past and ongoing Kumeyaay connection to Mission Bay’s natural world. The scholars will even create conservation-themed indicators that will probably be hung across the bay and seen by thousands and thousands of annual guests.
Jap Sierra Audubon Society – Bishop, California
Documenting Breeding Chicken Inhabitants Restoration Following Habitat Restoration in an Alkali Wetland
Jap Sierra Audubon Society will monitor ecological restoration on the japanese shore of Mono Lake, California, an alkali wetland, following the federal removing of an invasive wild horse herd. Via this grant, the chapter will assess the rebound of breeding fowl populations and vegetation composition to quantify the wetland’s restoration trajectory.
Plumas Audubon Society – Quincy, California
Aechmophorus Grebe Monitoring & Advocacy
The Aechmophorus Grebe Monitoring & Advocacy mission will resume monitoring and conservation efforts for Western and Clark’s grebes at Antelope Lake and Lake Davis, complementing ongoing work at Lake Almanor and Eagle Lake. The mission combines monitoring, data-driven advocacy, and public outreach (together with the event of a brief documentary movie) to advocate for the safety of those precedence species and their habitats.
Claflin College – Associates of the Earth – Orangeburg, South Carolina
Constructing Bridges and Creating Change
Associates of the Earth goals to construct and strengthen group, deliver consciousness to conservation, and encourage pupil participation. Programming will embody an Earth Day celebration, state advocacy work, collaboration with conservation companions within the Bahamas, a Traditionally Black Schools and Universities (HBCU) campus chapter retreat, and basic campus engagement.
Faculty of Marin – Audubon Nature Conservation Membership – Kentfield, California
Habitat Restoration for Chicken and Wildlife Conservation
This mission will create a everlasting seasonal wetland pond and handle floor water flows to deal with excessive tadpole mortality brought on by untimely puddle drying. By stabilizing breeding habitat, the mission will set up a dependable, high-protein meals supply for native and Pacific Flyway species, whereas additionally stopping deep gully erosion and considerably growing groundwater recharge to strengthen local weather resilience. Built-in into 4 science programs as a residing out of doors classroom, Audubon Nature Conservation Membership members will lead long-term, inclusive stewardship efforts. These embody Indigenous panorama excursions in partnership with the Coast Miwok Tribal Council, set up of multilingual interpretive signage, design of accessible trails, systematic ecological monitoring for the information archive, native plant installations, and path upkeep, supported by substantial in-kind labor from conservation companions.
South Florida Audubon Society – Tamarac, Florida
South Florida Tri-Metropolis Least Tern & Dune Resilience Initiative
This initiative will restore, improve, and defend important nesting habitat for the state-threatened Least Tern throughout the city shorelines of Deerfield Seaside, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, and Pompano Seaside. Via focused dune enhancement, clearly designated colony safety zones, standardized monitoring, and a coordinated group Shorebird Steward Program, the mission will cut back disturbance, strengthen climate-resilient dune techniques, and measurably enhance Least Tern nesting success throughout this susceptible stretch of South Florida shoreline.
Duval Audubon Society – Jacksonville, Florida
Protected Flight Jacksonville
The Metropolis of Jacksonville, in partnership with Lights Out Northeast Florida, embarks on a multi-year initiative to cut back fowl–window strike mortality by retrofitting three city-owned buildings with bird-friendly visible markers. Part 1 will concentrate on the town corridor and primary library and can considerably cut back avian collisions in downtown Jacksonville. The mission will even embody public outreach and group occasions tied to Earth Day and World Migratory Chicken Day. Anticipated outcomes embody lowered fowl mortality, elevated public consciousness of city wildlife conservation, and a scalable mannequin that helps future citywide retrofits.
West Volusia Audubon Society – DeLand, Florida
Group Resilience, Chicken Strike Prevention, and Pupil Engagement
Undertaking companions, together with the West Volusia Audubon Society, Stetson College’s Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience, Stetson Audubon, and the Dr. Joyce M. Cusack Useful resource Heart, will collaboratively arrange a minimum of two dynamic local weather resilience workshops within the impacted group of Spring Hill, DeLand. Undertaking companions will even set up “Part 2” bird-safe window markers on the remaining untreated, extremely reflective home windows of the Sandra Stetson Aquatic Heart to deal with fowl strikes, and also will facilitate a minimum of three fowl stewardship workshops for college students and the general public, create a last mission video about mission outcomes, work with the Metropolis of DeLand on fowl strike prevention measures in essential areas and mannequin ordinance choices, and set up academic interpretive signage on the aquatic heart.
Hawai’i Audubon Society – Honolulu, Hawaii
Hawaiʻi Chicken Disaster Fund: Statewide Emergency Response Coordination Community
The Hawaiʻi Chicken Disaster Fund Emergency Response Community will strengthen the Hawaiʻi Audubon Society’s function as a rapid-response conservation coordinator by offering well timed emergency help to associate organizations when disruptions in federal funding threaten important fowl conservation work. The mission will formalize rapid-response procedures, enhance statewide coordination amongst conservation companions, and guarantee essential actions—comparable to predator management, nest monitoring, translocation efforts, and habitat restoration—can proceed with out interruption. Along with stabilizing on-the-ground conservation, the mission will doc real-world impacts of funding disruptions to tell advocacy for extra dependable federal conservation help and set up a replicable emergency response mannequin for Audubon chapters nationwide.
Marianas Audubon Society – Tamunung, Guam
Defending the one wild inhabitants of Guam Rail by community-led invasive brown tree snake eradication
Marianas Audubon Society will proceed supporting community-led efforts to take away invasive brown tree snakes from Islan Dåno’ (Cocos Island) to guard the one wild inhabitants of the critically endangered Ko’ko’ (Guam Rail) and different distinctive native wildlife. The chapter will arrange weekly boat journeys to Islan Dåno’, permitting group volunteers to affix brown tree snake removing efforts and speed up the eradication of the invasive species from the island to revive habitat.
Chicago Chicken Alliance – Chicago, Illinois
Nice Lakes Shorebird Outreach Program
Chicago Chicken Alliance will deploy a summer time intern at Montrose Seaside to interact guests in conversations about Piping Plovers, habitat safety, and Share the Shore practices, with a specific concentrate on accountable dog-owner habits. This system will defend habitat for federally endangered Piping Plovers and different migratory shorebirds, whereas creating pathways from informal seaside encounters to long-term involvement in fowl conservation by follow-up outreach, volunteer alternatives, birding outings, and different community-building actions.
Lake County Audubon Society – Libertyville, Illinois
Birds, Belonging & Lake County: A Group Mural Initiative for Chicken-Pleasant Cities
This two-site public artwork and conservation engagement initiative will launch in Waukegan and later develop to Lake Forest. The mission will function the design and set up of two large-scale murals highlighting endangered, threatened, and declining fowl species. These murals will function focal factors for youth management growth, conservation schooling, Chicken Metropolis engagement, birdscaping outreach, and coordinated partnerships with faculties and municipalities throughout Lake County.
Dunes-Calumet Audubon Society – Wheeler, Indiana
Rising Group Engagement Via Crops for Birds
At choose places in Hammond, Indiana, this mission will work with two nonprofit group organizations to attach neighborhood residents and group companions with alternatives to take motion for birds and turn out to be Audubon members. Actions will embody planting a local plant demonstration backyard, internet hosting hands-on workshops to create native plant container gardens, and collaborating with residents and companions to plan extra bird-friendly actions.
Howard College – The Howard College Inexperienced Coalition – Washington, D.C.
HBCU Campus Retreat Initiative
This grant will permit a number of Howard college students to attend the HBCU (Traditionally Black Schools and Universities) Campus Retreat Initiative. The HBCU Campus Retreat initiative will deliver HBCU college students collectively for a weekend immersive out of doors birding expertise. Via collaboration amongst a number of HBCUs, this system will deepen college students’ connections to nature whereas fostering group constructing and collective engagement in a large-scale conservation mission.
Wachiska Audubon Society – Lincoln, Nebraska
Prairie Pines Buffer Plan
Wachiska Audubon Society’s aim is to develop a strategic grasp plan for the areas adjoining the 145-acre Prairie Pines Nature Protect, offering a transparent framework for conservation, land administration, and sustainable use.
South Shore Audubon Society – Freeport, New York
Black Skimmer Monitoring Undertaking
South Shore Audubon Society will place GPS tags on Black Skimmers inside a big native beach-nesting colony to find out the place they go, why they return, and what makes their nests profitable whereas they share the shore with the beach-loving public. In addition they intention to band 100-200 skimmer chicks annually and gather fecal samples to check their diets.
NYC Chicken Alliance – New York, New York
NYCHA in Nature
NYC Chicken Alliance will develop the New York Metropolis Housing Authority (NYCHA) in Nature program, partnering with New York Metropolis public housing residents to offer free nature and conservation actions. Constructing on classes from the two-year pilot, the chapter will enhance outreach, provide common programming in profitable communities, and proceed cultivating relationships in extra NYCHA websites, with the final word aim of seeding packages and fascinating residents in birds and environmental advocacy.
San Diego Metropolis Faculty – Chicken Alliance at Metropolis – San Diego, California
Environmental Justice, Plastic Discount, and Birding Training
Chicken Life will proceed to prioritize the annual Environmental Justice Summit (EJS), collaborating with different campus chapters on Earth Week occasions, and developing a Vaux’s Swift Chimney subsequent to the elementary faculty on the San Diego Metropolis Faculty campus. The chapter goals to develop these tasks by funding cross-border audio system for the EJS, making a Crops for Birds Backyard across the chimney, and growing a ‘zine and academic birding supplies for elementary college students, serving to them find out about migratory birds and have fun their journeys by the Chicken Migration Explorer.
Chicken Alliance of Oregon – Portland, Oregon
Group Voices for Conservation: BIPOC Engagement Undertaking
Chicken Alliance of Oregon will have interaction birders of colour by the chapter’s BigJoy affinity outings and partnerships with Folks of Shade Open air (POCO) and Out of doors Afro, main a collection of free birding outings that foster pleasure, belonging, and deeper connections to nature, whereas participating members in conservation points affecting their communities. Via these walks, embedded advocacy moments, and Black, Indigenous, and folks of color-centered advocacy trainings, they count on to interact members, construct pathways into conservation management, and strengthen group motion on statewide habitat and environmental protections.
Union Faculty – Union Faculty Audubon – Schenectady, New York
Revitalization: Lowering bird-window collisions at Union Faculty and re-establishing our Audubon chapter throughout the pupil physique
This mission will cut back bird-window collisions at Union Faculty by putting in FeatherFriendly decals and posting academic signage, whereas participating college students and the local people by artwork workshops, campus occasions with Silent Wings, and fowl banding on the Albany Pine Bush. Union Faculty Audubon will even collaborate with native Audubon chapters, showcase Audubon prints, attend Raptor Fest, and share their work by native media—elevating consciousness, selling chapter development, and strengthening conservation partnerships.
College of California – Los Angeles – Bruin Birding Membership – Los Angeles, California
Group Outreach with the Bruin Birding Membership
This mission seeks to strengthen communities throughout Los Angeles County by equipping companions with sources to help and develop outreach. Funding for discipline journeys will permit the membership to supply no-cost alternatives for members to expertise nature and birding past campus, whereas offering binoculars for the botanical backyard’s academic packages, which can give hundreds of youngsters annually their first hands-on expertise with birding.
College of California, San Diego – Chicken Membership at UC San Diego – San Diego, California
Fledge to the Future
Chicken Membership at UC San Diego plans to develop pupil entry to ornithology by the event of beginner-friendly experiences, comparable to campus birding, group service alternatives, and birding at off-campus conservation areas. This mission will even enhance the accessibility of our long-term analysis alternatives: BirdSafe, a fowl collision survey program, and Seabird Monitoring, a inhabitants depend survey program. The aim is to put the inspiration for these alternatives by offering important birding gear for pupil use, supporting coaching for brand new program leaders, and overlaying bills associated to pupil outreach.
College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – The Avian Society – Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chicken-Pleasant UNC: Chimney Swift Habitat-building and Elevating Consciousness for Chicken-Window Collision
This mission will construct two chimney swift towers, conduct habitat surveys, and host academic occasions in collaboration with the New Hope Chicken Alliance on the UNC campus. The mission goals to enhance fowl habitats, elevate consciousness of bird-window collisions, and actively have interaction college students in campus fowl conservation efforts.
Northern Virginia Chicken Alliance – Reston, Virginia
Subsequent Gen Conservationists: Constructing Younger Grownup Management Via Stretch Our Parks
This mission plans to energise Northern Virginia Chicken Alliance’s Stretch Our Parks initiative by enabling the present younger grownup membership to become involved immediately as volunteers. Volunteers will work to revive a minimum of three park websites in northern Virginia and can acquire abilities in hands-on habitat restoration, study to arrange group workdays, lead fowl outings, and advocate to native decision-makers on behalf of bird-friendly park administration, local weather motion, and sustainability.
Xavier College of Louisiana – XULA Geaux Inexperienced – New Orleans, Louisiana
XGG Sustainability Management Collective: Birds, Bayous & Belonging
This program develops pupil conservation management, expands habitat and group science, advances local weather motion and advocacy, and fosters group by storytelling. College students function Sanctuary Stewards, main tasks comparable to habitat restoration, native planting, fowl monitoring, and local weather schooling. Key occasions embody the Birds, Bayous & Belonging tenting retreat, the Aviary Artwork & Local weather Storytelling Competition, Earth Week actions, and group backyard days. These occasions will have interaction college students and native residents in hands-on conservation, environmental advocacy, and artistic climate-focused programming.
Birds Join Seattle – Seattle, Washington
“Understory” Lunch and Study Advocacy Coaching Collection
To construct grassroots advocacy energy for city tree cover and fairness, Birds Join Seattle will develop and launch “Understory”, a collection of eight 30-minute digital workshops offering sensible abilities and information for influencing city forest coverage, navigating public processes, and amplifying group voices. Classes will probably be held month-to-month, combining foundational information about city forestry with sensible advocacy abilities like testifying at hearings and fascinating decision-makers.
Collaborative Grants
Pasadena Audubon Society in Pasadena, California, created the Birding at Recess program to encourage college students in Title I elementary faculties to see birding as a enjoyable and fascinating exercise fairly than schoolwork. Already efficiently launched in a number of Pasadena Unified faculties, this system will proceed indefinitely, empowering impacted communities to find their inside naturalist.
Tulare Kings Audubon Society in Visalia, California, goals to strengthen group engagement and deepen connections with Audubon. These funds will help enhanced month-to-month programming, up to date promotional supplies, and a stronger social media presence.
Ventura Audubon Society in Ventura, California: The Dr. Christopher Dean Smith Memorial Backyard will create a volunteer-supported native habitat and out of doors studying house by a partnership between the Natural Backyard Membership of Ventura County and Ventura Audubon Society. The mission will set up infrastructure, restore habitat with native crops, and provide group schooling and bird-monitoring actions, fostering long-term group engagement and a mannequin for native conservation.
Weminuche Audubon Society in Pagosa Springs, Colorado: Educated volunteer naturalists from Pagosa Wetland Companions, a committee of the chapter, lead seasonal wetland excursions to coach and encourage the group to guard wetland and riparian habitats. Grant funds will improve volunteer effectiveness by offering manuals, help supplies, and coaching alternatives forward of the summer time tour season.
Arkansas Valley Audubon Society in Pueblo, Colorado, will prepare 4 youth from underserved areas of Pueblo to turn out to be fowl stroll leaders by a six-week program. This system will construct birding abilities, management, and group engagement, aiming to steer eight fowl walks and foster appreciation for city birds.
Mattabeseck Audubon Society in Middletown, Connecticut, will help artists in residence at I-Park in growing a long-lasting curiosity in birding, extending their preliminary residency fowl walks into ongoing private engagement. Binoculars and discipline guides supplied by this grant will allow members to proceed birding throughout their residencies.
Menunkatuck Audubon Society in Guilford, Connecticut, will have interaction the group to take away invasive crops and restore the panorama by planting native shrubs, small bushes, and perennials alongside the entry driveway of West Rock Nature Heart, the oldest city nature heart in the USA. This heart lately reopened after in depth renovations following twenty years of closure and neglect.
Hernando Audubon Society in Brooksville, Florida: The Welcome Again Songbirds Competition will probably be held on the Chinsegut Conservation Heart. Hosted collaboratively by Hernando Audubon Society and Citrus County Audubon Society with Chinsegut workers, the pageant will function fowl walks, displays, and workshops to interact the group and entice new members and volunteers.
Citrus County Audubon Society in Lecanto, Florida, will introduce public faculty college students in a various, high-poverty district to the artwork and observe of nature journaling. College students will obtain all essential supplies and study to watch the pure world by sketches, notes, and information; ask considerate questions; and make significant connections with their atmosphere.
Stetson Audubon Membership at Stetson College in DeLand, Florida, will set up a binocular library on the Sandra Stetson Aquatic Heart, complementing the present library on the Gillespie Museum. This second set of binoculars will enhance pupil participation in fowl walks, help student-led excursions, and develop public entry to birding occasions for years to come back.
Southeast Volusia Audubon Society in New Smyrna Seaside, Florida, plans to construct the primary Chimney Swift demonstration tower in Volusia County. This tower will present resting and breeding habitat for swifts, whereas inspiring the development of extra towers. Partnering with native faculties, service organizations, and the Metropolis of New Smyrna, the tower will probably be in-built a public park, providing alternatives for ongoing public engagement.
4 Rivers Audubon Society in Fort White, Florida, will host a half-day workshop designed to show current gardeners into native plant fans and domesticate new leaders and advocates for Audubon. Partnering with organizations just like the Florida Wildflower Basis, College of Florida Extension Grasp Gardeners, the Columbia County Library, and the Lake Metropolis Backyard Membership, the chapter will recruit members to advertise native crops and assist help the newly renovated native plant backyard at Alligator Lake County Park.
Tropical Audubon Society in Miami, Florida, will host Chicken Day, a free, family-friendly annual occasion on the chapter’s Steinberg Nature Heart, the place kids find out about South Florida birds and tips on how to defend the pure world. Scheduled for simply earlier than the Nice Yard Chicken Depend, the occasion will function round 10 group companions, offering an immersive expertise and introducing members to a number of bird-focused organizations and missions.
Camden County Audubon Society in St. Marys, Georgia, will set up designated fishing line recycling bins at key fishing places to deal with the issue of discarded fishing line in its coastal Georgia group. The mission will construct and place eight bins with informational signage to cut back environmental hazards and lift consciousness of the risks discarded line poses to native birds.
Coastal Georgia Audubon in St. Simons Island, Georgia, will present gear and academic supplies to native newbie birders by a binocular mortgage program. Six units of binoculars, discipline guides, and academic supplies can be supplied for college students to take a look at by the native faculty library system.
Central Kentucky Audubon Society in Lexington, Kentucky, will set up a bird-friendly window therapy on the home windows of the Raven Run Nature Heart in Lexington, Kentucky. The character heart will then function an ongoing demonstration and data supply concerning the significance of bird-friendly constructing practices.
Laughing Whitefish Audubon Society in Negaunee, Michigan: Introduction to Birding is a collaboration between the chapter and Residents for a Protected and Clear Lake Superior, geared toward introducing newcomers to the fun of birding. The continuing program will use binoculars and discipline guides on fowl walks to interact members and spotlight the significance of fowl life within the ecological integrity of the Lake Superior watershed.
Detroit Chicken Alliance in Detroit, Michigan, will have fun Detroit’s inexperienced areas and vibrant fowl habitat. The chapter will host The Nice Detroit Chicken Off to determine which of the town’s 4 largest parks has the best variety of fowl species. This group science initiative will have interaction neighborhoods throughout peak migration season and train members to make use of digital instruments like eBird and Audubon Migration Explorer.
Prairie Lakes Audubon Chapter in Alexandria, Minnesota, will substitute worn-out bluebird homes with new ones, constructed over the winter for spring set up. This ongoing effort continues greater than eight years of bluebird home upkeep at native state parks.
Austin Audubon Society in Austin, Minnesota, will present high-quality binoculars for elementary faculty courses visiting the Hormel Nature Heart. This one-time buy will help birding and conservation schooling for a various inhabitants of youngsters and adults for a few years to come back.
Zumbro Valley Audubon Society in Rochester, Minnesota, will buy provides and gear to develop and plant native crops, bushes, and shrubs, creating habitat for birds and different wildlife. Most provides will probably be loaned to chapter members, group teams, and native residents, whereas some crops will probably be grown immediately by board members.
The Ozark Rivers Audubon Society in Rolla, Missouri, will co-host the 2026 Fall Nature Competition with the Meramec Hills Grasp Naturalist Chapter and the Rolla Out of doors Collaborative Faculty. This free group occasion will function greater than 20 exhibitor tables, native plant distributors, hummingbird banding demonstrations, guided hikes, and actions for youngsters.
Ozark Gateway Audubon Society in Joplin, Missouri, in partnership with Wildcat Glades Nature Group, plans to reestablish and preserve Prothonotary Warbler nest containers alongside Wildcat Park and close by restoration areas after previous flood harm and put on. The mission will embody correct placement and predator safety, ongoing monitoring, and public schooling by an informational plaque to advertise consciousness of those birds and their habitat.
Excessive Nation Audubon in Boone, North Carolina, is partnering with Watauga County, the Watauga Arts Council, and the City of Boone to create a Birding Arts Path alongside an area greenway. The path will function art work by native artists depicting birds affected by local weather change, accompanied by academic QR codes and textual content, with installations starting in 2026 and extra items added yearly.
Bergen County Audubon Society in Paramus, New Jersey, will host a Native American Day on the chapter’s Native Plant/Butterfly Backyard, that includes representatives from the Ramapough-Lenni Lenape Nation to share the tribe’s cultural connection to native birds. Contributors will even assist plant native species that help birds and pollinators, with the occasion open and free to the group.
North Shore Audubon Society in Port Washington, New York, will lead massive volunteer teams in eradicating invasive non-native bushes and saplings from Nassau County preserves. This effort will goal species like burning bush and Norway maple.
Genesee Valley Audubon Society in Rochester, New York, will present stipends to help pupil leaders from campus chapters in attending New York and Connecticut Council conferences. These funds will assist college students keep engaged with the council and profit from scholarship-supported participation in chapter occasions.
Southern Adirondack Audubon Society in Saratoga Springs, New York, plans to supply small oak bushes with academic signage to libraries and different group organizations. The aim of this mission is to coach the general public about the advantages of oak bushes as habitat, meals supply, and shelter for wildlife.
North Fork Audubon Society in Greenport, New York, will proceed its habitat restoration efforts on the 55-acre County Park. Board members and group volunteers will analysis, plan, and plant native crops and bushes to reinforce fowl feeding habitat.
Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society in Oneota, New York, within the Bobolinks & Bioregions program Part I, will collect baseline information, construct partnerships, and assess grassland fowl habitat wants within the Delaware-Otsego area and a matched website in South America. It’s going to determine property homeowners and conservation priorities to information focused actions in Part II.
Black River Audubon Society in Elyria, Ohio, and the R.G. Jones Birding Membership will give city center faculty college students hands-on birding and conservation experiences. The chapter supplies binoculars and transportation to the Greatest Week in American Birding, serving to college students develop identification abilities, discipline expertise, and connections to the broader birding group.
Columbus Audubon, in Columbus, Ohio: Storybook Path at Sawmill Wetlands will function 4 seasonal tales about cavity-nesting birds, flying squirrels, bumblebees, and bats, introduced by panels, interactive shows, and QR-linked movies. The mission will have interaction households in habitat conservation, group constructing, and native species consciousness, with collaborative grant funds supporting extra academic supplies and outreach.
Tulsa Audubon Society in Tulsa, Oklahoma, plans to replace the Flycatcher Path Residing Classroom, a bird-friendly out of doors house used frequently by native college students. After 12 years, important infrastructure like fencing, water pumps, and unsafe bushes requires alternative to keep up a protected and fascinating studying atmosphere.
Associates of Grand Lake Audubon Society in Grand Lake, Oklahoma, who simply reached their one-year mark, will use grant funding to help ongoing group outreach, schooling, membership development, and help for the Younger Birders Membership.
Lehigh Valley Audubon Society in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, will develop its Birding Backpacks program to extra libraries inside its area, serving to newcomers and people with restricted sources join with nature and study to take care of native birds and their habitats.
Prairie Hills Audubon Society in Black Hawk, South Dakota, will host a number of chalk artwork occasions throughout western South Dakota, together with tribal communities, faculties, museums, and recreation facilities, offering free chalk and fascinating kids, households, and educators in celebrating wildlife and endangered species. These occasions will promote group engagement and pathways for ongoing involvement in endangered species conservation.
Tyler Audubon Society in Tyler, Texas, will construct a fowl and pictures blind alongside an current path at Neches Nationwide Wildlife Refuge, offering accessible wildlife viewing for all guests. Designed by an architect, this platform enhances the refuge and represents the chapter’s largest mission thus far, constructing on years of discipline journey expertise.
Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society in Sequim, Washington: Undertaking BirdSafe is an ongoing coordinated effort between the chapter and Peninsula Faculty geared toward decreasing fowl collisions with campus home windows. The mission educates workers on Lights Out practices to attenuate pointless nighttime lighting and marks home windows to extend visibility for birds.
Potomac Valley Audubon Society in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, plans to develop a volunteer program, which can take care of 4 gardens at chapter-managed preserves utilizing coaching designed with native native plant specialists. This system is meant as a long-term, self-sustaining initiative.
Silver State Wings and George Whittell Environmental Grant Awards
Along with the Audubon in Motion and Collaborative grants, we have been additionally in a position to once more provide the George Whittell Nevada Environmental Grant Award and the Silver State Wings Conservation Fund Grant Awards to our chapters in Nevada.
Silver State Wings Conservation Fund has awarded Pink Rock Audubon Society in Las Vegas, Nevada, a collective $2,545 to fund the set up of bird-collision deterrent movie on the Mt. Charleston Customer Heart and the acquisition of youth binoculars to be used at school discipline journeys.
George Whittell Nevada Environmental Grant Award has awarded Pink Rock Audubon Society in Las Vegas, Nevada, $9,000 to develop and proceed the faculty campus initiative on the College of Nevada, Las Vegas; Nevada State College; and Faculty of Southern Nevada by the Campuses Take Flight program.
We hope you’ll be a part of us in congratulating all these chapters on their wonderful work. We are going to share extra on these tasks quickly and hope you’ll have an opportunity to listen to immediately from the chapters doing this nice work within the close to future.
