[Match Alert] Before midnight we need 36 new annual donors

Birds are on the brink. You can help bring them back.

The Golden-cheeked Warbler is just one of the 389 birds who face an increasing risk of extinction due to our rapidly warming climate. That's why there isn't a moment to lose, and we're calling on bird lovers like you for help.

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Please, KAREN, will you start your annual donation and be one of the 36 new donors we need before midnight to help make sure we hit our year-end goal?

Golden-cheeked Warbler.

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Dear KAREN, Right now, the Golden-cheeked Warbler is up against a host of threats: climate change, habitat loss, and nest predation. Its total range and population are small, its habitat is disappearing as the area becomes more developed, and where it does still breed, cowbirds often lay their eggs in its nest. With their range already dwindling in size by 1.5 million acres in just 12 years, we don't have a moment to waste to help bring them back from the brink of extinction. Here's how bird lovers like you can help! Your generosity powers our work to protect vulnerable birds like the Golden-cheeked Warbler and the places they need to survive. We still need 36 compassionate people to chip in before midnight to keep us on track to hit our year-end goal. Thanks to a generous group of donors, your gift will be matched 2X up to $500,000.

There is reason to be hopeful, KAREN. Just last year there was a Golden-cheeked Warbler sighting at Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center at the extreme edge of their breeding range. An area where the warbler hadn't been documented in well over a decade. Dogwood Canyon and the surrounding landscape provide hundreds of acres of healthy woodland habitat for the Golden-cheeked Warbler and we're hopeful they'll continue to return.

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It's estimated that 1.5 million acres, nearly a third of the Golden-cheeked Warbler's home range, disappeared between 1999 and 2011.

In the most extreme warming scenario the Golden-cheeked Warbler could lose 92% of its range.

Nearly 400 North American bird species are at increasing risk of climate extinction.

With the support of generous bird lovers like you, we're restoring and improving the resilience of important landscapes, advocating for climate legislation at the state and federal levels, and making our communities more bird friendly. But we have to do more while there is still time to defend vulnerable bird populations. Please start a gift that renews automatically every year and gives birds protection they can depend on. Sincerely, National Audubon Society

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Photo: John Mangold/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Illustrations: Golden-cheeked Warbler, Piping Plover, Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo

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