Conservation

Protecting birds and their habitats

Bald Eagle

Audubon implements five strategic initiatives to further the protection of all birds, with an emphasis on our most threatened birds, across the East Coast as part of the Atlantic Flyway.
What’s in the Plan?

CONSERVATION
At the heart of Audubon’s work are programs that drive full-lifecycle conservation for birds throughout the Americas. We organize our work around five highly scalable core strategic priorities:

Climate Change: Our work focuses on actions that reduce the impact of climate change on birds and protect the habitats they will need to survive in a changing climate.

Working Lands:  Audubon works with policy leaders and landowners and managers to influence land management to support a sustainable future for birds while maintaining the economic productivity of the land.

Water: Audubon is bringing its historic focus on fresh water together under a single strategy built on unique regional needs. Key target areas include the Colorado River and Delta, the Salton Sea, the Everglades, the Mississippi, and the Great Lakes.

Bird-Friendly Communities: This is the local face of the Audubon network’s conservation work, connecting supporters with community, state, flyway, and national opportunities to enjoy birds and to take meaningful conservation action to protect them.

Bird Town
Bird-Friendly Communities

Bird Town

Bird Town is a working partnership of Audubon and municipalities in Pennsylvania to promote conservation and community-based actions to create a healthy, more sustainable environment for birds and people.

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Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Landscape
Priority Birds

Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Landscape

A Critical Landscape for Birds and People

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Audubon At Home
Conservation

Audubon At Home

Learn how to make your home and community a bird-friendly place to live!

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Lights Out and Reflective Surfaces
Bird-Friendly Buildings

Lights Out and Reflective Surfaces

Artificial lights and reflective surfaces create hazards to birds in migration. Here are some solutions to minimize these dangers.

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Forestry for the Birds
Conservation

Forestry for the Birds

Collaborating with foresters and land managers to consider forest bird habitat into forest and natural resource planning

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Native plants for stormwater management

Native plants for stormwater management

  Brochures for using native plants for stormwater management.

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Why Birds Matter
Priority Birds

Why Birds Matter

A beautiful video of why birds matter.

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Plant-Bird Database
Conservation

Plant-Bird Database

Simple tools for targeted landscape choices.

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House Cats are a Major Threat to Our Birds
Conservation

House Cats are a Major Threat to Our Birds

A cat owner and avian ecologist found an effective solution to a perennial problem. But will other cat owners use it?

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Domtar & The American Forest Foundation Announce Partnership for Forest Conservation, Bird Habitat
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Domtar & The American Forest Foundation Announce Partnership for Forest Conservation, Bird Habitat

Paper and pulp manufacturer and forest conservation non-profit to assist private woodland owners in forest stewardship for at-risk bird species.

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Learn More and Get Involved

Audubon Maryland-DC and Audubon Pennsylvania have joined forces to become Audubon Mid-Atlantic.