Integrated Waterbird Management & Monitoring Has News!
Reddish Egret The Integrated Waterbird Management & Monitoring (IWMM) is a landscape level conservation program that aims to enable managers and decision-makers to ensure that nonbreeding waterbirds have the right habitat, in the [...]
Atlantic and Great Lakes Sea Duck Migration Study
The Sea Duck Joint Venture (SDJV) launched an ambitious, large-scale satellite telemetry study of sea ducks in the Atlantic Flyway in 2009, with more than 300 transmitters deployed so far by study partners. Target species [...]
Partners in Action: Coastal Impoundment Restoration in Delaware
The Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) is currently working on coastal impoundment restoration and shoreline/beach restoration through a Hurricane Sandy Relief Grant funded through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. All projects are [...]
Giant Leap Forward for Nonbreeding Waterbird Conservation
Lesser Yellowlegs Soon summer will give way to fall and waterbirds will depart their breeding areas enroute to their wintering grounds. Collectively, waterfowl, shorebirds and long-legged wading birds (i.e. waterbirds) will depend on [...]
Red Knot Banding Season is Here!
Juvenile red knot (note the greenish-yellow legs) getting a band. USFWS Biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Virginia Tech, Audubon, and Clemson University worked to [...]
Stronghold for Birds in North Carolina
Audubon North Carolina's Sanctuary in Corolla has been identified as being in the top 2 percent of strongholds for birds to survive the effects of climate change over the next century. In order to continue [...]