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Mass Audubon invites birders to take a brief survey designed to help us collect information on:

• The different types of birding activities they engage in.
• Their familiarity with environmental issues affecting local and global bird populations.
• Their understanding of the impacts associated with these conservation issues.
• Their familiarity and engagement with conservation actions that can help mediate these impacts.

Here is the link for taking the survey.

What we learn from the survey responses, collected throughout spring and summer of 2017, will help us develop educational materials that build on birders familiarity with conservation issues, and that are relevant to birders current levels of engagement with certain conservation actions. By taking this survey, you will help us to develop materials that will be effective and applicable to fellow birders.

SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2018 at UMASS BOSTON

Registration is now open for Mass Audubon’s 2018 Birders Meeting. This year’s theme is:

Highlands and Islands of New England: A Bird’s-Eye View

The Birders Meeting will feature the ecology of these two habitat types and their significance to birds and birders.

Speakers include Dr. Sara Morris, Keenan Yakola, Kent McFarland, Chris Rimmer, and Dr. Jeff Wells. There will also be a special presentation by Victor Emanuel, founder of Victor Emanuel Nature Tours (VENT), and short updates about some of Mass Audubon’s current bird conservation work.

The meeting will include lunch, raffles, exhibits, book-signings, and a wide variety of vendors. This promises to be an outstanding event.

More information and registration

Bird Observer is collaborating with the Association of Massachusetts Bird Clubs to bring together birders from across Massachusetts to communicate more effectively, share ideas, and take unified action to support bird conservation. The Association will hold its next meeting from 10:00 to 12:30 on Sunday, April 15 at the Mass Fish and Wildlife office at Westborough WMA. If you belong to any of the 18 member clubs in the Association, you are welcome to attend and participate in this meeting. For more information contact John Nelson at jnelson@northshore.edu.