| To create a fuller picture of urban bird life, Philadelphia’s Mid-Winter Bird Census seeks out even the city’s most neglected corners, surveying places not covered in the Christmas Bird Count: the Navy Yard, an abandoned asylum, even a garbage depot. “Birders love hitting the glamorous spots,” says Audubon Pennsylvania’s Keith Russell, the event’s founder. “We clean up in the places they don’t want to go.” Read more |
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| As Congress considers this year’s spending bill, dozens of anti-environmental provisions are on the table, “riders” that put important bird habitats at risk: one of America's last primeval rainforests; the sagebrush ecosystem of the West; hundreds of thousands of acres of the Mississippi Delta; and more. Your action now helps protect these places birds need. Take Action |
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