2026 Audubon in Action and Audubon Collaborative Grant Projects

Annually, Audubon seeks to financially help campus and neighborhood chapters by offering grants for affiliated chapters engaged on conservation initiatives. These grants are one among many ways in which Audubon invests within the work of chapters and prioritizes work that’s rooted in advancing the shared objectives outlined in Flight Plan. Presently, these grants take two types: Audubon in Motion Grants and Collaborative Grants.

 Competitors was sturdy this yr, with a file 76 Audubon in Motion purposes requesting a mixed complete of practically $850,000, greater than triple the quantity of obtainable funds. Topic-matter consultants reviewed purposes pertaining to the Flight Plan milestones of Habitat Conservation, Coverage, Neighborhood Constructing, and Local weather, enabling us to prioritize funding impactful work that can drive Flight Plan ahead for these milestones.

This cycle, Audubon is proud to award grant funding to 68 completely different campus and neighborhood chapter initiatives. Initiatives from 28 states, Guam, and the District of Columbia had been represented among the many award recipients.

Of the funded Audubon in Motion and Collaborative Grant initiatives:

• 68% help the Neighborhood Constructing milestone
• 24% help the Habitat Conservation milestone
• 6% help the Local weather Motion milestone
• 2% help the Coverage milestone

Audubon in Motion Grant Initiatives

Maricopa Hen Alliance – Phoenix, Arizona

Preserving and Reviving an City Flocking Hotspot

Maricopa Hen Alliance goals to revive the ecosystem of a panorama revered by historic peoples for hundreds of years. To counterpoint the realm with native flora, arthropods, avifauna, and different wildlife, a yearlong marketing campaign of neighborhood occasions and academic workshops will allow native planting, water supply creation, invasive plant removing, trash removing, and habitat creation. These efforts will restore a semblance of the unique panorama with successes measured by neighborhood engagement and growing biodiversity, with explicit consideration and surveys for resident and migratory birds.

Northern Arizona Audubon Society – Sedona, Arizona

Wings Throughout Borders: Monitoring Wildlife, Connecting Cultures: Section II Pupil Motus Grants

This Northern Arizona Audubon Society program will interact college students from Mexico, Arizona, and Canada as storytellers, following birds that migrate by means of northern Arizona and contributing to cross-hemispheric conservation consciousness. Northern Arizona Audubon Society will develop its Motus program by means of storytelling, offering hands-on coaching and mentorship to interact youth in neighborhood science and fostering worldwide connections from Mexico to Canada.

Golden Gate Hen Alliance – Berkeley, California

Birding for Everybody Fellowship

The mission of the Birding for Everybody Fellowship is to develop and empower the following era of Black, Indigenous, and other people of colour conservation leaders by means of a full yr of free birding and ecology courses in addition to conservation and advocacy alternatives provided by Golden Gate Hen Alliance in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences and California Audubon.

San Diego Hen Alliance – San Diego, California

Sharing Our Shores: Mission Bay

This can be a multi-tiered program that accomplishes roughly 5 acres of habitat restoration whereas educating third and fourth-grade college students about native migratory and coastal birds within the native habitat of Mission Bay, San Diego. By in-class classes and restoration occasions in coastal habitats, college students will find out about and take motion to enhance nesting habitat for the endangered California Least Tern and Gentle-footed Ridgway’s Rail and can discover the historical past and ongoing Kumeyaay connection to Mission Bay’s natural world. The scholars may even create conservation-themed indicators that will probably be hung across the bay and seen by hundreds of thousands of annual guests.

Jap Sierra Audubon Society – Bishop, California

Documenting Breeding Hen Inhabitants Restoration Following Habitat Restoration in an Alkali Wetland

Jap Sierra Audubon Society will monitor ecological restoration on the japanese shore of Mono Lake, California, an alkali wetland, following the federal removing of an invasive wild horse herd. By this grant, the chapter will assess the rebound of breeding hen populations and vegetation composition to quantify the wetland’s restoration trajectory.

Plumas Audubon Society – Quincy, California

Aechmophorus Grebe Monitoring & Advocacy

The Aechmophorus Grebe Monitoring & Advocacy undertaking will resume monitoring and conservation efforts for Western and Clark’s grebes at Antelope Lake and Lake Davis, complementing ongoing work at Lake Almanor and Eagle Lake. The undertaking combines monitoring, data-driven advocacy, and public outreach (together with the event of a brief documentary movie) to advocate for the safety of those precedence species and their habitats.

Claflin College – Mates of the Earth – Orangeburg, South Carolina

Constructing Bridges and Creating Change

Mates of the Earth goals to construct and strengthen neighborhood, deliver consciousness to conservation, and encourage pupil participation. Programming will embrace an Earth Day celebration, state advocacy work, collaboration with conservation companions within the Bahamas, a Traditionally Black Faculties and Universities (HBCU) campus chapter retreat, and basic campus engagement.

School of Marin – Audubon Nature Conservation Membership – Kentfield, California

Habitat Restoration for Hen and Wildlife Conservation

This undertaking will create a everlasting seasonal wetland pond and handle floor water flows to handle excessive tadpole mortality attributable to untimely puddle drying. By stabilizing breeding habitat, the undertaking will set up a dependable, high-protein meals supply for native and Pacific Flyway species, whereas additionally stopping deep gully erosion and considerably growing groundwater recharge to strengthen local weather resilience. Built-in into 4 science programs as a residing out of doors classroom, Audubon Nature Conservation Membership members will lead long-term, inclusive stewardship efforts. These embrace Indigenous panorama excursions in partnership with the Coast Miwok Tribal Council, set up of multilingual interpretive signage, design of accessible trails, systematic ecological monitoring for the information archive, native plant installations, and path upkeep, supported by substantial in-kind labor from conservation companions.

South Florida Audubon Society – Tamarac, Florida

South Florida Tri-Metropolis Least Tern & Dune Resilience Initiative

This initiative will restore, improve, and defend important nesting habitat for the state-threatened Least Tern throughout the city shorelines of Deerfield Seashore, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, and Pompano Seashore. By focused dune enhancement, clearly designated colony safety zones, standardized monitoring, and a coordinated neighborhood Shorebird Steward Program, the undertaking will scale back disturbance, strengthen climate-resilient dune techniques, and measurably improve Least Tern nesting success throughout this susceptible stretch of South Florida shoreline.

Duval Audubon Society – Jacksonville, Florida

Protected Flight Jacksonville

The Metropolis of Jacksonville, in partnership with Lights Out Northeast Florida, embarks on a multi-year initiative to scale back hen–window strike mortality by retrofitting three city-owned buildings with bird-friendly visible markers. Section 1 will give attention to the town corridor and major library and can considerably scale back avian collisions in downtown Jacksonville. The undertaking may even embrace public outreach and neighborhood occasions tied to Earth Day and World Migratory Hen Day. Anticipated outcomes embrace decreased hen mortality, elevated public consciousness of city wildlife conservation, and a scalable mannequin that helps future citywide retrofits.

West Volusia Audubon Society – DeLand, Florida

Neighborhood Resilience, Hen Strike Prevention, and Pupil Engagement

Challenge companions, together with the West Volusia Audubon Society, Stetson College’s Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience, Stetson Audubon, and the Dr. Joyce M. Cusack Useful resource Heart, will collaboratively set up no less than two dynamic local weather resilience workshops within the impacted neighborhood of Spring Hill, DeLand. Challenge companions may even set up “Section 2” bird-safe window markers on the remaining untreated, extremely reflective home windows of the Sandra Stetson Aquatic Heart to handle hen strikes, and also will facilitate no less than three hen stewardship workshops for college kids and the general public, create a ultimate undertaking video about undertaking outcomes, work with the Metropolis of DeLand on hen strike prevention measures in crucial areas and mannequin ordinance choices, and set up instructional interpretive signage on the aquatic middle.

Hawai’i Audubon Society – Honolulu, Hawaii

Hawaiʻi Hen Disaster Fund: Statewide Emergency Response Coordination Community

The Hawaiʻi Hen Disaster Fund Emergency Response Community will strengthen the Hawaiʻi Audubon Society’s position as a rapid-response conservation coordinator by offering well timed emergency help to accomplice organizations when disruptions in federal funding threaten important hen conservation work. The undertaking will formalize rapid-response procedures, enhance statewide coordination amongst conservation companions, and guarantee crucial actions—comparable to predator management, nest monitoring, translocation efforts, and habitat restoration—can proceed with out interruption. Along with stabilizing on-the-ground conservation, the undertaking will doc real-world impacts of funding disruptions to tell advocacy for extra dependable federal conservation help and set up a replicable emergency response mannequin for Audubon chapters nationwide.

Marianas Audubon Society – Tamunung, Guam

Defending the one wild inhabitants of Guam Rail by means of community-led invasive brown tree snake eradication

Marianas Audubon Society will proceed supporting community-led efforts to take away invasive brown tree snakes from Islan Dåno’ (Cocos Island) to guard the one wild inhabitants of the critically endangered Ko’ko’ (Guam Rail) and different distinctive native wildlife. The chapter will set up weekly boat journeys to Islan Dåno’, permitting neighborhood volunteers to affix brown tree snake removing efforts and speed up the eradication of the invasive species from the island to revive habitat.

Chicago Hen Alliance – Chicago, Illinois

Nice Lakes Shorebird Outreach Program

Chicago Hen Alliance will deploy a summer season intern at Montrose Seashore to interact guests in conversations about Piping Plovers, habitat safety, and Share the Shore practices, with a specific give attention to accountable dog-owner conduct. This system will defend habitat for federally endangered Piping Plovers and different migratory shorebirds, whereas creating pathways from informal seaside encounters to long-term involvement in hen conservation by means of follow-up outreach, volunteer alternatives, birding outings, and different community-building actions.

Lake County Audubon Society – Libertyville, Illinois

Birds, Belonging & Lake County: A Neighborhood Mural Initiative for Hen-Pleasant Cities

This two-site public artwork and conservation engagement initiative will launch in Waukegan and later develop to Lake Forest. The undertaking will characteristic the design and set up of two large-scale murals highlighting endangered, threatened, and declining hen species. These murals will function focal factors for youth management improvement, conservation training, Hen Metropolis engagement, birdscaping outreach, and coordinated partnerships with faculties and municipalities throughout Lake County.

Dunes-Calumet Audubon Society – Wheeler, Indiana

Rising Neighborhood Engagement By Vegetation for Birds

At choose areas in Hammond, Indiana, this undertaking will work with two nonprofit neighborhood organizations to attach neighborhood residents and neighborhood companions with alternatives to take motion for birds and grow to be Audubon members. Actions will embrace planting a local plant demonstration backyard, internet hosting hands-on workshops to create native plant container gardens, and collaborating with residents and companions to plan further bird-friendly actions.

Howard College – The Howard College Inexperienced Coalition – Washington, D.C.

HBCU Campus Retreat Initiative

This grant will permit a number of Howard college students to attend the HBCU (Traditionally Black Faculties and Universities) Campus Retreat Initiative. The HBCU Campus Retreat initiative will deliver HBCU college students collectively for a weekend immersive out of doors birding expertise. By collaboration amongst a number of HBCUs, this system will deepen college students’ connections to nature whereas fostering neighborhood constructing and collective engagement in a large-scale conservation undertaking.

Wachiska Audubon Society – Lincoln, Nebraska

Prairie Pines Buffer Plan

Wachiska Audubon Society’s aim is to develop a strategic grasp plan for the areas adjoining the 145-acre Prairie Pines Nature Protect, offering a transparent framework for conservation, land administration, and sustainable use.

South Shore Audubon Society – Freeport, New York

Black Skimmer Monitoring Challenge

South Shore Audubon Society will place GPS tags on Black Skimmers inside a big native beach-nesting colony to find out the place they go, why they return, and what makes their nests profitable whereas they share the shore with the beach-loving public. In addition they purpose to band 100-200 skimmer chicks every year and accumulate fecal samples to check their diets.

NYC Hen Alliance – New York, New York

NYCHA in Nature

NYC Hen Alliance will develop the New York Metropolis Housing Authority (NYCHA) in Nature program, partnering with New York Metropolis public housing residents to supply free nature and conservation actions. Constructing on classes from the two-year pilot, the chapter will improve outreach, supply common programming in profitable communities, and proceed cultivating relationships in further NYCHA websites, with the final word aim of seeding packages and fascinating residents in birds and environmental advocacy.

San Diego Metropolis School – Hen Alliance at Metropolis – San Diego, California

Environmental Justice, Plastic Discount, and Birding Training

Hen Life will proceed to prioritize the annual Environmental Justice Summit (EJS), collaborating with different campus chapters on Earth Week occasions, and setting up a Vaux’s Swift Chimney subsequent to the elementary faculty on the San Diego Metropolis School campus. The chapter goals to develop these initiatives by funding cross-border audio system for the EJS, making a Vegetation for Birds Backyard across the chimney, and creating a ‘zine and academic birding supplies for elementary college students, serving to them find out about migratory birds and have fun their journeys by means of the Hen Migration Explorer.

Hen Alliance of Oregon – Portland, Oregon

Neighborhood Voices for Conservation: BIPOC Engagement Challenge

Hen Alliance of Oregon will interact birders of colour by means of the chapter’s BigJoy affinity outings and partnerships with Folks of Colour Outdoor (POCO) and Out of doors Afro, main a sequence of free birding outings that foster pleasure, belonging, and deeper connections to nature, whereas partaking contributors in conservation points affecting their communities. By these walks, embedded advocacy moments, and Black, Indigenous, and other people of color-centered advocacy trainings, they count on to interact contributors, construct pathways into conservation management, and strengthen neighborhood motion on statewide habitat and environmental protections.

Union School – Union School Audubon – Schenectady, New York

Revitalization: Decreasing bird-window collisions at Union School and re-establishing our Audubon chapter throughout the pupil physique

This undertaking will scale back bird-window collisions at Union School by putting in FeatherFriendly decals and posting instructional signage, whereas partaking college students and the local people by means of artwork workshops, campus occasions with Silent Wings, and hen banding on the Albany Pine Bush. Union School Audubon may even collaborate with native Audubon chapters, showcase Audubon prints, attend Raptor Fest, and share their work by means of native media—elevating consciousness, selling chapter development, and strengthening conservation partnerships.

College of California – Los Angeles – Bruin Birding Membership – Los Angeles, California

Neighborhood Outreach with the Bruin Birding Membership

This undertaking seeks to strengthen communities throughout Los Angeles County by equipping companions with sources to help and develop outreach. Funding for discipline journeys will permit the membership to supply no-cost alternatives for contributors to expertise nature and birding past campus, whereas offering binoculars for the botanical backyard’s instructional packages, which can give hundreds of youngsters every year their first hands-on expertise with birding.

College of California, San Diego – Hen Membership at UC San Diego – San Diego, California

Fledge to the Future

Hen Membership at UC San Diego plans to develop pupil entry to ornithology by means of the event of beginner-friendly experiences, comparable to campus birding, neighborhood service alternatives, and birding at off-campus conservation areas. This undertaking may even enhance the accessibility of our long-term analysis alternatives: BirdSafe, a hen collision survey program, and Seabird Monitoring, a inhabitants rely survey program. The aim is to put the muse for these alternatives by offering important birding tools for pupil use, supporting coaching for brand spanking new program leaders, and protecting bills associated to pupil outreach.

College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – The Avian Society – Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Hen-Pleasant UNC: Chimney Swift Habitat-building and Elevating Consciousness for Hen-Window Collision

This undertaking will construct two chimney swift towers, conduct habitat surveys, and host instructional occasions in collaboration with the New Hope Hen Alliance on the UNC campus. The undertaking goals to enhance hen habitats, increase consciousness of bird-window collisions, and actively interact college students in campus hen conservation efforts.

Northern Virginia Hen Alliance – Reston, Virginia

Subsequent Gen Conservationists: Constructing Younger Grownup Management By Stretch Our Parks

This undertaking plans to energise Northern Virginia Hen Alliance’s Stretch Our Parks initiative by enabling the prevailing younger grownup membership to become involved instantly as volunteers. Volunteers will work to revive no less than three park websites in northern Virginia and can acquire abilities in hands-on habitat restoration, study to arrange neighborhood workdays, lead hen outings, and advocate to native decision-makers on behalf of bird-friendly park administration, local weather motion, and sustainability.

Xavier College of Louisiana – XULA Geaux Inexperienced – New Orleans, Louisiana

XGG Sustainability Management Collective: Birds, Bayous & Belonging

This program develops pupil conservation management, expands habitat and neighborhood science, advances local weather motion and advocacy, and fosters neighborhood by means of storytelling. College students function Sanctuary Stewards, main initiatives comparable to habitat restoration, native planting, hen monitoring, and local weather training. Key occasions embrace the Birds, Bayous & Belonging tenting retreat, the Aviary Artwork & Local weather Storytelling Competition, Earth Week actions, and neighborhood backyard days. These occasions will interact college students and native residents in hands-on conservation, environmental advocacy, and artistic climate-focused programming.

Birds Join Seattle – Seattle, Washington

“Understory” Lunch and Study Advocacy Coaching Collection

To construct grassroots advocacy energy for city tree cover and fairness, Birds Join Seattle will develop and launch “Understory”, a sequence of eight 30-minute digital workshops offering sensible abilities and information for influencing city forest coverage, navigating public processes, and amplifying neighborhood voices. Classes will probably be held month-to-month, combining foundational information about city forestry with sensible advocacy abilities like testifying at hearings and fascinating decision-makers.

Collaborative Grants

Pasadena Audubon Society in Pasadena, California, created the Birding at Recess program to encourage college students in Title I elementary faculties to see birding as a enjoyable and fascinating exercise moderately than schoolwork. Already efficiently launched in a number of Pasadena Unified faculties, this system will proceed indefinitely, empowering impacted communities to find their internal naturalist.

Tulare Kings Audubon Society in Visalia, California, goals to strengthen neighborhood engagement and deepen connections with Audubon. These funds will help enhanced month-to-month programming, up to date promotional supplies, and a stronger social media presence.

Ventura Audubon Society in Ventura, California: The Dr. Christopher Dean Smith Memorial Backyard will create a volunteer-supported native habitat and out of doors studying house by means of a partnership between the Natural Backyard Membership of Ventura County and Ventura Audubon Society. The undertaking will set up infrastructure, restore habitat with native vegetation, and supply neighborhood training and bird-monitoring actions, fostering long-term neighborhood engagement and a mannequin for native conservation.

Weminuche Audubon Society in Pagosa Springs, Colorado: Skilled volunteer naturalists from Pagosa Wetland Companions, a committee of the chapter, lead seasonal wetland excursions to coach and encourage the neighborhood to guard wetland and riparian habitats. Grant funds will improve volunteer effectiveness by offering manuals, help supplies, and coaching alternatives forward of the summer season tour season.

Arkansas Valley Audubon Society in Pueblo, Colorado, will prepare 4 youth from underserved areas of Pueblo to grow to be hen stroll leaders by means of a six-week program. This system will construct birding abilities, management, and neighborhood engagement, aiming to guide eight hen walks and foster appreciation for city birds.

Mattabeseck Audubon Society in Middletown, Connecticut, will help artists in residence at I-Park in creating a long-lasting curiosity in birding, extending their preliminary residency hen walks into ongoing private engagement. Binoculars and discipline guides offered by means of this grant will allow contributors to proceed birding throughout their residencies.

Menunkatuck Audubon Society in Guilford, Connecticut, will interact the neighborhood to take away invasive vegetation and restore the panorama by planting native shrubs, small timber, and perennials alongside the entry driveway of West Rock Nature Heart, the oldest city nature middle in the USA. This middle not too long ago reopened after intensive renovations following twenty years of closure and neglect.

Hernando Audubon Society in Brooksville, Florida: The Welcome Again Songbirds Competition will probably be held on the Chinsegut Conservation Heart. Hosted collaboratively by Hernando Audubon Society and Citrus County Audubon Society with Chinsegut employees, the pageant will characteristic hen walks, shows, and workshops to interact the neighborhood and entice new members and volunteers.

Citrus County Audubon Society in Lecanto, Florida, will introduce public faculty college students in a various, high-poverty district to the artwork and observe of nature journaling. College students will obtain all needed supplies and study to watch the pure world by means of sketches, notes, and knowledge; ask considerate questions; and make significant connections with their setting.

Stetson Audubon Membership at Stetson College in DeLand, Florida, will set up a binocular library on the Sandra Stetson Aquatic Heart, complementing the prevailing library on the Gillespie Museum. This second set of binoculars will improve pupil participation in hen walks, help student-led excursions, and develop public entry to birding occasions for years to return.

Southeast Volusia Audubon Society in New Smyrna Seashore, Florida, plans to construct the primary Chimney Swift demonstration tower in Volusia County. This tower will present resting and breeding habitat for swifts, whereas inspiring the development of further towers. Partnering with native faculties, service organizations, and the Metropolis of New Smyrna, the tower will probably be inbuilt a public park, providing alternatives for ongoing public engagement.

4 Rivers Audubon Society in Fort White, Florida, will host a half-day workshop designed to show present gardeners into native plant fanatics and domesticate new leaders and advocates for Audubon. Partnering with organizations just like the Florida Wildflower Basis, College of Florida Extension Grasp Gardeners, the Columbia County Library, and the Lake Metropolis Backyard Membership, the chapter will recruit contributors to advertise native vegetation and assist help the newly renovated native plant backyard at Alligator Lake County Park.

Tropical Audubon Society in Miami, Florida, will host Hen Day, a free, family-friendly annual occasion on the chapter’s Steinberg Nature Heart, the place youngsters find out about South Florida birds and defend the pure world. Scheduled for simply earlier than the Nice Yard Hen Depend, the occasion will characteristic round 10 neighborhood companions, offering an immersive expertise and introducing contributors to a number of bird-focused organizations and missions.

Camden County Audubon Society in St. Marys, Georgia, will set up designated fishing line recycling bins at key fishing areas to handle the issue of discarded fishing line in its coastal Georgia neighborhood. The undertaking will construct and place eight bins with informational signage to scale back environmental hazards and lift consciousness of the risks discarded line poses to native birds.

Coastal Georgia Audubon in St. Simons Island, Georgia, will present tools and academic supplies to native newbie birders by means of a binocular mortgage program. Six units of binoculars, discipline guides, and academic supplies can be offered for college kids to take a look at by means of the native school library system.

Central Kentucky Audubon Society in Lexington, Kentucky, will set up a bird-friendly window therapy on the home windows of the Raven Run Nature Heart in Lexington, Kentucky. The character middle will then function an ongoing demonstration and data supply concerning the significance of bird-friendly constructing practices.

Laughing Whitefish Audubon Society in Negaunee, Michigan: Introduction to Birding is a collaboration between the chapter and Residents for a Protected and Clear Lake Superior, geared toward introducing newcomers to the thrill of birding. The continuing program will use binoculars and discipline guides on hen walks to interact contributors and spotlight the significance of hen life within the ecological integrity of the Lake Superior watershed.

Detroit Hen Alliance in Detroit, Michigan, will have fun Detroit’s inexperienced areas and vibrant hen habitat. The chapter will host The Nice Detroit Hen Off to establish which of the town’s 4 largest parks has the best variety of hen species. This neighborhood science initiative will interact neighborhoods throughout peak migration season and train contributors to make use of digital instruments like eBird and Audubon Migration Explorer.

Prairie Lakes Audubon Chapter in Alexandria, Minnesota, will substitute worn-out bluebird homes with new ones, constructed over the winter for spring set up. This ongoing effort continues greater than eight years of bluebird home upkeep at native state parks.

Austin Audubon Society in Austin, Minnesota, will present high-quality binoculars for elementary faculty courses visiting the Hormel Nature Heart. This one-time buy will help birding and conservation training for a various inhabitants of youngsters and adults for a few years to return.

Zumbro Valley Audubon Society in Rochester, Minnesota, will buy provides and tools to develop and plant native vegetation, timber, and shrubs, creating habitat for birds and different wildlife. Most provides will probably be loaned to chapter members, neighborhood teams, and native residents, whereas some vegetation will probably be grown instantly by board members.

The Ozark Rivers Audubon Society in Rolla, Missouri, will co-host the 2026 Fall Nature Competition with the Meramec Hills Grasp Naturalist Chapter and the Rolla Out of doors Collaborative College. This free neighborhood occasion will characteristic greater than 20 exhibitor tables, native plant distributors, hummingbird banding demonstrations, guided hikes, and actions for youngsters.

Ozark Gateway Audubon Society in Joplin, Missouri, in partnership with Wildcat Glades Nature Group, plans to reestablish and keep Prothonotary Warbler nest containers alongside Wildcat Park and close by restoration areas after previous flood injury and put on. The undertaking will embrace correct placement and predator safety, ongoing monitoring, and public training by means of an informational plaque to advertise consciousness of those birds and their habitat.

Excessive Nation Audubon in Boone, North Carolina, is partnering with Watauga County, the Watauga Arts Council, and the City of Boone to create a Birding Arts Path alongside a neighborhood greenway. The path will characteristic art work by native artists depicting birds affected by local weather change, accompanied by instructional QR codes and textual content, with installations starting in 2026 and extra items added yearly.

Bergen County Audubon Society in Paramus, New Jersey, will host a Native American Day on the chapter’s Native Plant/Butterfly Backyard, that includes representatives from the Ramapough-Lenni Lenape Nation to share the tribe’s cultural connection to native birds. Contributors may even assist plant native species that help birds and pollinators, with the occasion open and free to the neighborhood.

North Shore Audubon Society in Port Washington, New York, will lead giant volunteer teams in eradicating invasive non-native bushes and saplings from Nassau County preserves. This effort will goal species like burning bush and Norway maple.

Genesee Valley Audubon Society in Rochester, New York, will present stipends to help pupil leaders from campus chapters in attending New York and Connecticut Council conferences. These funds will assist college students keep engaged with the council and profit from scholarship-supported participation in chapter occasions.

Southern Adirondack Audubon Society in Saratoga Springs, New York, plans to supply small oak timber with instructional signage to libraries and different neighborhood organizations. The aim of this undertaking is to coach the general public about the advantages of oak timber as habitat, meals supply, and shelter for wildlife.

North Fork Audubon Society in Greenport, New York, will proceed its habitat restoration efforts on the 55-acre County Park. Board members and neighborhood volunteers will analysis, plan, and plant native vegetation and timber to reinforce hen feeding habitat.

Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society in Oneota, New York, within the Bobolinks & Bioregions program Section I, will collect baseline knowledge, construct partnerships, and assess grassland hen habitat wants within the Delaware-Otsego area and a matched website in South America. It can establish property homeowners and conservation priorities to information focused actions in Section II.

Black River Audubon Society in Elyria, Ohio, and the R.G. Jones Birding Membership will give city center faculty college students hands-on birding and conservation experiences. The chapter gives binoculars and transportation to the Greatest Week in American Birding, serving to college students develop identification abilities, discipline expertise, and connections to the broader birding neighborhood.

Columbus Audubon, in Columbus, Ohio: Storybook Path at Sawmill Wetlands will characteristic 4 seasonal tales about cavity-nesting birds, flying squirrels, bumblebees, and bats, offered by means of panels, interactive shows, and QR-linked movies. The undertaking will interact households in habitat conservation, neighborhood constructing, and native species consciousness, with collaborative grant funds supporting further instructional supplies and outreach.

Tulsa Audubon Society in Tulsa, Oklahoma, plans to replace the Flycatcher Path Dwelling Classroom, a bird-friendly out of doors house used recurrently by native college students. After 12 years, important infrastructure like fencing, water pumps, and unsafe timber requires alternative to keep up a protected and fascinating studying setting.

Mates of Grand Lake Audubon Society in Grand Lake, Oklahoma, who simply reached their one-year mark, will use grant funding to help ongoing neighborhood outreach, training, membership development, and help for the Younger Birders Membership.

Lehigh Valley Audubon Society in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, will develop its Birding Backpacks program to extra libraries inside its area, serving to newcomers and people with restricted sources join with nature and study to take care of native birds and their habitats.

Prairie Hills Audubon Society in Black Hawk, South Dakota, will host a number of chalk artwork occasions throughout western South Dakota, together with tribal communities, faculties, museums, and recreation facilities, offering free chalk and fascinating youngsters, households, and educators in celebrating wildlife and endangered species. These occasions will promote neighborhood engagement and pathways for ongoing involvement in endangered species conservation.

Tyler Audubon Society in Tyler, Texas, will construct a hen and pictures blind alongside an present path at Neches Nationwide Wildlife Refuge, offering accessible wildlife viewing for all guests. Designed by an architect, this platform enhances the refuge and represents the chapter’s largest undertaking to this point, constructing on years of discipline journey expertise.

Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society in Sequim, Washington: Challenge BirdSafe is an ongoing coordinated effort between the chapter and Peninsula School geared toward decreasing hen collisions with campus home windows. The undertaking educates employees on Lights Out practices to attenuate pointless nighttime lighting and marks home windows to extend visibility for birds.

Potomac Valley Audubon Society in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, plans to develop a volunteer program, which can take care of 4 gardens at chapter-managed preserves utilizing coaching designed with native native plant consultants. This system is meant as a long-term, self-sustaining initiative.

Silver State Wings and George Whittell Environmental Grant Awards

Along with the Audubon in Motion and Collaborative grants, we had been additionally capable of once more supply the George Whittell Nevada Environmental Grant Award and the Silver State Wings Conservation Fund Grant Awards to our chapters in Nevada.

Silver State Wings Conservation Fund has awarded Pink Rock Audubon Society in Las Vegas, Nevada, a collective $2,545 to fund the set up of bird-collision deterrent movie on the Mt. Charleston Customer Heart and the acquisition of youth binoculars to be used in class discipline journeys.

George Whittell Nevada Environmental Grant Award has awarded Pink Rock Audubon Society in Las Vegas, Nevada, $9,000 to develop and proceed the school campus initiative on the College of Nevada, Las Vegas; Nevada State College; and School of Southern Nevada by means of the Campuses Take Flight program.                                                                         

We hope you’ll be a part of us in congratulating all these chapters on their glorious work. We’ll share extra on these initiatives quickly and hope you should have an opportunity to listen to instantly from the chapters doing this nice work within the close to future.