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California Condor. Photo: Scott Frier/USFWS

U.S. House of Representatives Approves $30 Million for Salton Sea Crisis
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U.S. House of Representatives Approves $30 Million for Salton Sea Crisis

Funding to address threat to 1.6 million people and 300 species of birds

Let's Go Birding Together (LGBT)
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Let's Go Birding Together (LGBT)

Celebrating Pride Month with Let's Go Birding Together bird walks and other LGBTQ inclusive activities.

Audubon Testifies at U.S. House Hearing on the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
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Audubon Testifies at U.S. House Hearing on the Migratory Bird Treaty Act

Congress Takes First Step Toward Restoring Bird Protections Eliminated by Trump

SUCCESS! 178,500 Tricolored Blackbirds Saved in 2019
Tricolored Blackbird

Success! 178,500 Tricolored Blackbirds Saved in 2019

This spring, 90% of colonies thrived in the Central Valley

Wisdom the Laysan Albatross still smashing age and breeding records for wild birds
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Wisdom the Laysan Albatross still smashing age and breeding records for wild birds

Wisdom, the oldest known wild bird, is at least 68 years old and has raised upwards of 35 chicks in her lifetime. Conservation actions have helped her thrive.

What is bird language?
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What is bird language?

How combining birding and mindfulness powerfully connects us to nature

Photos tell the story of two visions of Orange County’s natural landscape

Nonnative yellow mustard growing at the Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary in Orange County. Photo: Sandy DeSimone.

Sandy DeSimone, the director of research and education at the Audubon Starr Ranch in Orange County, sent us these two contrasting photos of hillside fauna on the property. In the top photo, you see nonnative yellow mustard seven feet tall and driving away native birds and insects. Just a little further up the hill in the bottom photo is a mature coastal sage scrub restoration site, where she heard Lazuli Buntings singing. As her research has shown, native rodents and rabbits keep the site weed free by consuming weeds and their seeds. The animals come in after the shrubs have enough cover and height to provide them with shelter for predator avoidance, foraging, and breeding.

Restored native coastal sage scrub at the Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary in orange County. Photo: Sandy DeSimone
As spring migration winds down, Audubon Starr Ranch still getting great birds
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As spring migration winds down, Audubon Starr Ranch still getting great birds

Recent bird monitoring shows the amazing avian diversity of the Orange County landscape.

Bobcat makes a visit to the Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary

A young bobcat recently paid a quick visit to the Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary in Orange County.

Bird LA Day at the Audubon Center at Debs Park draws hundreds. Visitors from all over Northeast Los Angeles flocked to the Audubon Center at Debs Park recently for Bird LA Day. The event at the Audubon Center was one of dozens throughout the larger Los Angeles area highligting bids and birding. It was great to see our local community come out to the Audubon Center at Debs Park’s Bird LA Day festivities for a day full of fun, arts, music, and birding for everyone. For a more complete overview of the day at Debs Park, check out this great post by our team.

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