The clock is ticking, KAREN.
We're starting 2022 with unrivaled danger for birds and their habitats. They've never been more in need of friends they can count on, and it'll take all of us working together to secure a safer future for them.
Your generous year-end gift today is the very best way to help: For a few more hours, you have the opportunity to have your donation matched. Make the most of this opportunity before time runs out with your best gift while there's still time. To understand the intersecting threats facing birds around the country right now, look at what happened just over a year ago: Injured and dead migratory birds turned up en masse on roadsides, in backyards, and along waterways in what's been called an unprecedented die-off. But when researchers dug into the data, there wasn't a singular explanation that told the whole story.
Instead, what they found was that severe drought in the region made food and water scarce, which could have caused the birds to starve. An unseasonal cold snap likely forced the birds to fly lower, becoming disoriented, and dying from striking buildings and other objects. And fires may have contributed to some of these deaths by pushing migrants off course and even toward the storm.
And in Seattle just this past summer, many Caspian Tern chicks were killed or injured as they jumped to the ground below to escape record temperatures on their rooftop nests. Extreme heat is a known, climate-related threat that can be especially harmful during vulnerable nesting periods for birds.
These events are warning signs of what lies in store as the climate crisis intensifies. But because of you, KAREN, we know we still have a chance to move toward a better future.
Let's make this the year we do it. For more than a century, bird lovers like you have powered Audubon's world-class conservation efforts. Your support makes all our work possible—the powerful advocacy, empowering education, and hands-on conservation work that let us protect birds whenever and wherever they're in need, and the world-class conservation science that guides us in all we do.
So join us and have your most generous gift matched to further our critical work. This special opportunity runs out at midnight tonight, so please don't miss this chance to double your impact. Sincerely,
The National Audubon Society
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