Birds

February 10, 2012—The following is a statement from Audubon North Carolina, Defenders of Wildlife and the Southern Environmental Law Center:

On September 11-16, 22 participants in the Road Scholar session titled ‘Maine Seabird Biology and Conservation’ arrived on Hog Island for a very successful service-learning program. 

The Important Bird Areas Program (IBA) is a global effort to identify and conserve areas that are vital to birds and other biodiversity.

The GBBC is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across the continent and in Hawaii.

From December 14 through January 5 each year tens of thousands of volunteers throughout the Americas take part in an adventure that has become a family tradition among generations.

Nearly 60% of the 305 relatively widely distributed bird species found in North America in winter are on the move, shifting their ranges northward by an average of 35 miles.

Audubon and the America Bird Conservancy have joined forces to rally conservationists around America's most imperiled birds.

Audubon's unprecedented analysis of forty years of citizen-science bird population data from our own Christmas Bird Count plus the Breeding Bird Survey reveals the alarming decline of many of our most common and beloved birds.