National Audubon Society

Newsletter | April 2025

Spring migration just got even more exciting! You’re invited to Audubon After Dark: Bird Trivia Hour, migration edition! On April 17, test your bird migration knowledge during a lively, virtual trivia game hosted by our Community Naturalists. Join us and earn a spot at the top of the leaderboard to win exclusive swag! This is our final Audubon After Dark event of the season and one you won’t want to miss! Register today

American Avocet. Photo: Tim Timmis/Audubon Photography Awards

A White-breasted Nuthatch perches on a stump covered in birdseed. She holds a seed in her beak.

Naturalist Chat, A Bird Q&A

Do you have questions about birds? Don’t be left wondering about them! On April 17, we’re hosting the season’s final Naturalist Chat, A Bird Q&A event. Join us and share the questions chirping in the back of your mind. Our community science coordinator and bird expert Zach Hutchinson will answer them during a live Zoom event!

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White-breasted Nuthatch. Photo: John Pizniur/Great Backyard Bird Count

Understanding Colorado’s New Dredge and Fill Program

Coloradans! Last year, we asked you to support a bill aimed at regulating projects affecting state streams and wetlands that lost Clean Water Act protections due to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Thanks to your efforts, the bill passed and is now a groundbreaking law! On April 24, the Colorado Healthy Headwaters Working Group—co-chaired by Audubon Rockies’ Western Rivers Program Manager, Abby Burk—is hosting a technical webinar to review the new state program, how restoration projects move forward, and the ongoing rulemaking process. Learn more and register today!

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Common Merganser. Photo: Delphine Farmer/Audubon Photography Awards

We Are Not the First. Part 1

Great Salt Lake and its surrounding landscape are changing, but it isn’t the first time in history that a major water body of significant resources and beauty has been alarmingly altered in a relatively short time. Heidi Hoven, senior manager of Audubon’s Gillmor Sanctuary at Great Salt Lake, reflects on the value of uplands adjacent to Great Salt Lake and the escalating need to conserve them.

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A saline wetland at Gillmor Sanctuary. Photo: Evan Barrientos/Audubon Rockies

Upcoming Events in Wyoming

A Broad-tailed Hummingbird sits on a wire fence. Out-of-focus pink flowers are in the background.

Gardening for Wyoming Wildlife

You can create a home garden that is a haven for Wyoming’s birds and pollinators. Learn how with us and the Murie Audubon Society! Next weekend, we’re co-hosting a Habitat Hero workshop all about native plants and bird-friendly gardening. Join us for a lineup of expert speakers who will discuss plants for pollinators, garden maintenance tips, best practices for feeding birds, and more! Learn more and register today. Click here

Broad-tailed Hummingbird. Photo: Evan Barrientos/Audubon Rockies

Five adults perform various activities around an outdoor table of science education materials.

Natural Science Camp for Educators

Our annual educator camp is returning, with a new location! Are you looking to incorporate the outdoors into your classroom or youth activities? Join us in Buffalo Bill State Park for a two-day environmental education camp! This fun, hands-on workshop will feature the award-winning curricula of Project Learning Tree, Project WET, and Project WILD. Registration is $150 and includes five curriculum guides, instruction, materials, meals, 1 PTSB credit, and a tent site for June 17 and 18. Sign up here

Photo: Jacelyn Downey

A pronghorn walks in the sagebrush steppe.

Lonetree Ranch Habitat Restoration

While much of the vast sagebrush steppe is public land, private ownership makes up a large and important portion as well. To maintain the continued health of this ecosystem, we must invest in their efforts to manage and restore their land. In 2023, Audubon Rockies secured a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant to support stewardship on one Audubon-certified ranch in southwest Wyoming. Our new StoryMap is a tour of the work that was accomplished.

View it here

Pronghorn. Photo: Evan Barrientos/Audubon Rockies

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Don’t see an opportunity near you? Visit our Get Involved page to find ways you can help birds in your area!

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