In this Issue: Restoration After BP Oil Disaster | Saving Tricolored Blackbirds | A Monumental Shorebird Survey
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| Wingspan Newsletter | July 2024 | | | | |
| From March to April, more than half a million Sandhill Cranes stop mid-migration to rest and refuel at our Rowe Sanctuary in Nebraska. Throughout the past 50 years, Rowe Sanctuary volunteers have been an integral part of the center and, within the past decade, have made crane season what it is today. Rowe Sanctuary hosts nearly 200 visitors participating in crane tours each day and continually works to preserve the region's Platte River Valley and surrounding prairie habitat—where Sandhills and other birds love to roost and forage. Get a sneak peek of what it's like to volunteer during Sandhill Crane season. | | | | |
| Flocks of Sandhill Cranes at sunset at Rowe Sanctuary. Photo: Sydney Walsh/Audubon | | | | |
| Extinction was a real possibility for Tricolored Blackbirds, whose numbers, historically 2 million to 3 million, plunged through the 20th century, bottoming out at an estimated 145,000 in 2014. Since 2015, we've worked alongside partners in California and farmers to reverse this frightening decline, eliminating what was once an existential threat. See how they made it happen | | | | |
| Tricolored Blackbirds at a dairy farm near Planada, California. Photo: Andri Tambunan | | | | |
| The Intermountain West Shorebird Surveys are a monumental endeavor to understand migratory shorebird populations by replicating a historic large-scale survey across the interior portion of the Pacific Flyway. Spanning 11 states and more than 200 wetland sites, this effort depends on a full partnership network composed of more than 70 organizations and 300 community science volunteers. The results of such large-scale coordination and collaboration will help wetland managers across the country to sustain the wetlands shorebirds depend on, even in an age of rapidly changing water systems. Learn more | | | | |
| Dunlin. Photo: Tim Timmis/Audubon Photography Awards | | | | |
| After years of advocacy work by local Audubon chapters and partners in North Carolina, Greensboro and Winston-Salem recently passed two new native plant policies that promote the use of native plants and ban invasive plant species. These policies combined will result in more plants for birds blooming in the Triad, while also cutting down on the use of invasive species in landscaping. Keep reading | | | | |
| American Goldfinch in a field of purple coneflower. Photo: Corrie Carswell/Audubon Photography Awards | | | | |
| Black Skimmers. Photo: Walker Golder | | | | |
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| Western Gull chick. Photo: Camille Stewart/Audubon Photography Awards | | | | |
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