Audubon California is currently negotiating with farmers in California's Central Valley to protect several large breeding colonies of rare Tricolored Blackbirds. Because these birds have lost much of their natural habitat, they now sometimes build their huge colonies in sileage fields, which puts them at risk if the farmer needs to harvest the field before the young birds have fledged. Click here to learn more about this effort, and how you can help. Graham Chisholm, our executive director, described the situation in the video below: