#birdconservation — Public Fediverse posts

More than half of Earth’s migratory bird species are declining – here’s how we can still save them
#MigratoryBirds #BirdConservation #Wildlife #Environment #ClimateChange #Nature #Birds #Ecology #Ecosystems #EndangeredSpecies #Habitat #Science #Migration
https://the-14.com/more-than-half-of-earths-migratory-bird-species-are-declining-heres-how-we-can-still-save-them/

📰 Oystercatchers Are Rebounding

🐚 Rhode Island & Atlantic Coast: Targeted conservation, from protecting nesting sites to restoring shellfish-rich shorelines, is helping these striking black‑and‑orange shorebirds recover after years of decline.

🐦 Partnerships among scientists, volunteers, and coastal communities are boosting chick survival and strengthening resilience as rising seas reshape barrier islands. 35 coastal organizations in 16 states have joined in the effort.

🤝 Focused habitat work and long-term monitoring can turn the tide for vulnerable coastal species.

🔗 https://apnews.com/article/american-oystercatchers-shorebirds-conservation-climate-af6829ccb2ea83d599481abd83b7208d

#WildlifeWednesday #WildlifeConservation
#BirdConservation #WildlifeRecovery #Biodiversity #Environment #Ecology #HabitatProtection #EcologicalRestoration

#WildlifeWednesday

🐝 Just posted to Habitat Gardening, this time covering the importance of native shrubs and vines to birds and other forest friends - and how to find them.

🦋 Native vines in particular 'don't get no respect' in the native plant literature. I found a particularly useful source where you can search specifically for vines.

🐦‍⬛ As usual. there are seasonal habitat improvement ideas and a long list of references and further reading. Photos from my garden are also included.

Go Native!

https://write.as/habitat-gardening/move-up-with-shrubs-and-vines

@NCConnect
#HabitatGardening #BiodiversityGardening #Gardening #NativePlants #Nature #Environment #Conservation #Biodiversity #Invertebrates #Pollinators #BirdConservation

World Migratory Bird Day

Dopo aver raccontato questa affascinante ricorrenza

Giornata mondiale degli uccelli migratori🐦

torniamo a parlare della World Migratory Bird Day – Giornata Mondiale degli Uccelli Migratori, che nel 2026 cade sabato 9 maggio, come sempre nel secondo sabato di maggio. Ma quest’anno porta con sé un messaggio ancora più coinvolgente e attuale…

🌍 Cos’è (e perché continua a emozionare)

È una campagna globale sostenuta anche dalle Nazioni Unite per sensibilizzare sulla tutela degli uccelli migratori e dei loro habitat. Questi straordinari viaggiatori attraversano continenti, oceani e città, ricordandoci che la natura non ha confini. E proprio per questo la loro protezione è una responsabilità condivisa.

📅 La particolarità della doppia data

Forse non tutti lo sanno (perfetto da aggiungere!):
la giornata si celebra due volte l’anno:

• secondo sabato di maggio (migrazione verso i siti di nidificazione)
• secondo sabato di ottobre (ritorno verso le aree di svernamento)

Un modo poetico per seguire il ritmo naturale delle migrazioni nel mondo.

✨ Novità 2026: “Every Bird Counts”

Il tema 2026 è: “Every Bird Counts – Your Observations Matter!” (Ogni uccello conta – Le tue osservazioni sono importanti!)

Un invito diretto a tutti noi: anche una semplice osservazione può diventare un dato prezioso per la scienza.

👉 Grande protagonista è infatti la citizen science (scienza partecipata), cioè il contributo delle persone comuni nel monitorare e proteggere gli uccelli migratori.

🔎 Un anniversario speciale

Il 2026 coincide anche con un traguardo importante: 60 anni dell’International Waterbird Census, uno dei più grandi programmi globali di monitoraggio degli uccelli acquatici. Un dettaglio che rende questa edizione ancora più significativa!

💡 Come partecipare (anche in modo chic!)

Non serve essere esperti birdwatcher:

• una passeggiata nella natura 👣
• una foto condivisa 📸
• un’osservazione registrata online

possono contribuire davvero alla conservazione della biodiversità.

🕊️ Un piccolo gesto, un grande viaggio

Se nel articolo precedente si è raccontato il valore simbolico e naturale della giornata, il 2026 aggiunge un tassello importante: ognuno di noi può fare la differenza.

Perché, proprio come gli uccelli migratori ci insegnano… anche il viaggio più lungo inizia da un piccolo battito d’ali. 💫

Autore: Lynda Di Natale
Fonte: web
Immagine: AI

Gardeners warned not to do one job in May to protect robins in their gardens https://www.allforgardening.com/1752532/gardeners-warned-not-to-do-one-job-in-may-to-protect-robins-in-their-gardens/ #BirdConservation #garden #gardening #HedgeTrimming #RHSAdvice #ROBINS

#Orillia - #EarthDay Documentary: Saving the #NightCaller

April 22 @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Price: CA$10.00

Lakehead University – Orillia Campus
500 University Ave
Orillia, #Ontario L3V 0B9 Canada

"Celebrate Earth Day! Arrive early from 4 to 6 PM, explore community vendors, enjoy family-friendly activities and take a tour of the #IndigenousGarden.

Afterward, settle in for a screening of #WorkCabin’s documentary #SavingTheNightCaller, which follows conservation efforts to protect the elusive and enchanting #EasternWhippoorwill. The film will be followed by a discussion on local conservation work and community action, led by Mark Bisset."

FMI: https://www.birdscanada.org/event/earth-day-documentary-saving-the-night-caller

#SolarPunkSunday #BirdConservation #ConserveNature #NatureEducation #EarthDay2026 #Conservation #IndigenousGardening #Conservation

Feeding birds in the UK?

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has issued new guidance to avoid spreading disease.

✋ Simply put, pause feeding any seeds or peanuts between 1 May and 31 October.

🌻 Also consider bird-friendly planting to provide natural food sources, such as sunflowers, teasels, and ivy.

🚨 The cause of an outbreak of a mysterious and deadly disease in finches in British gardens in 2005 has finally been determined by conservationists.

More guidance here:
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-garden-birds-disease.html

#SolarPunkSunday [edit]
#BirdConservation #BirdFeeding #NativePlants #Biodiversity #HabitatGardening #WildlifeConservation

Early morning is feeding time. The mother sparrow is actively searching for insects and soft food, many of which are not even visible to us. This is nature at its best.
#Koodugal #SparrowConservation #SaveSparrows #UrbanBiodiversity #BirdConservation #NatureConservation #WildlifeAwareness

Wildlife Wednesday: For the Birds

🥼 Birdwatching Helps Science

Backyard birdwatchers help scientists uncover what hawks really like to eat.

This is just one example of how citizen scientists, posting in iNaturalist, help bird conservation and science.

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-backyard-birdwatchers-scientists-uncover-hawks.html

🧠 Birdwatching Helps Your Brain

A recent study showed that those who were experienced at bird identification had brain changes associated improved attention and perception, suggesting that birding may support brain health.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/birdwatching-birding-brain-boost-cognition-research-rcna259945

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#WildlifeWednesday #BirdConservation #CitizenScience #BirdWatching

📰 New California Condors Nest

The YUROK TRIBE in the Pacific Northwest has reintroduced a pair of California Condors, who have established a nest.

🔭 Biologists with the Northern California Condor Restoration Program (NCCRP) determined that the female condor, known by her Yurok name Ney-gem’ Ne-chween-kah (“She carries our prayers”), likely laid an egg inside a hollow in an old-growth redwood tree.

🧑‍💼 This rare event did not come easy. The tribe spent nearly two decades conducting studies, evaluating contaminant risks, and building partnerships before releasing the first cohort of four condors in May 2022.

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/california-condors-nesting-pacific-northwest/

#SolarPunkSunday #Conservation #BirdConservation #WildlifeConservation #Biodiversity #CaliforniaCondor

📰 Big Data Is Protecting Birds

Massive database, compiled by cooperating organizations, allows a rare, critical, wide-ranging multi-species synthesis to inform conservation across flyways.

🐦‍⬛ The information from electronic tags is combined with survey and community science data to create a rich picture of where shorebirds are and where they are going.

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-shorebird-science-big-birds.html

#SolarPunkSunday #Conservation #BirdConservation #WildlifeConservation #Biodiversity

🐦 We are getting reports that migrating hummingbirds have been seen near the NC / SC border.

We have our feeders out for the first wave which will pass by on their way farther north.

👀 Has anyone in North Carolina spotted any?

#Hummingbirds #BirdConservation
@NCConnect

You may remember that I posted recently about how to support bird nesting.

Yesterday, I had my gardening support wagon out and in it was a wooden box of small tools. A glove lay on top.

🐦 A pair of Carolina Wrens promptly started using my easily available nesting materials to build a nest under the glove in the box!

🤯 It was nearly complete in no time. They used twigs, stems, and leaves that I had broken into small pieces, dried iris leaves, fluffy debris from flowers, etc., and moss from a nearby shady area.

😬 I didn't have the heart to toss this away, so I moved the whole thing over to a bush about a meter away, a much better place. Jammed it between three branches pretty securely.

🤞 I'll check later to see if they accepted the new location.

#WildlifeWednesday #HabitatGardening #BirdConservation #Gardening

How Namibia’s Bird Conservation Projects Build Community Resilience

🐦‍⬛ Droughts and land degradation often erode communities’ social bonds, but in the Karas region of Namibia, bird conservation initiatives have become a rallying point.

🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Women and youth are at the forefront of these initiatives, which has inspired confidence among peers and shown that conservation is not the domain of scientists alone, but also a practice of everyday community resilience.

More here:
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/how-namibias-bird-conservation-projects-build-community-resilience-commentary

#WildlifeWednesday #Conservation #BirdConservation #WildlifeConservation #Biodiversity #SolarPunkSunday

CONSERVATION EFFORTS SUCCESSFUL FOR THREATENED LOON

🐦‍⬛ Common Loon populations in Maine had been dwindling due to mercury in water from coal industry and lead/lifecycle disruption from fishing industry.

🏛️ In recent years, however, targeted conservation laws and related actions have led to increases in populations.

https://outdoors.com/officials-are-cautiously-optimisticat-the-comeback-of-an-animal-they-thought-was-extinct/

#WildlifeWednesday #Conservation #WildlifeConservation #Environment #Wildlife #BirdConservation

This beautiful video comes from Udumalipet, Salarapatti (Coimbatore Region) and has been shared by Mr. Karthi, who received nest boxes from us last year.
We are truly happy to see continuous nesting and hatchlings in these nest boxes, proving that a safe and caring environment can make a real difference for sparrows.
#SparrowConservation
#ChittuKuruvi
#NestBox
#BirdConservation
#SaveSparrows
#Udumalipet
#Coimbatore
#CommunitySupport
#NatureCare
#EcoFriendly
#WildlifeProtection
#PositiveImpact

What a weekend at the 2025 Afterburn campout at Fly Ranch! GBBO and friends spotted 57 species, including this Red-necked Phalarope.

Dive into the full species lists on our blog: https://www.gbbo.org/blog/2025/10/14/afterburn-campout-with-burning-man

#birds #BirdWatching #FlyRanch #AfterburnCampout #BirdConservation

GBBO joined the friends and family of Fly Ranch for the Afterburn 2025 campout. Ned Bohman led bird walks for attendees in the rich habitats of Fly Ranch and Hulalapai Flat. Read more on the blog: https://www.gbbo.org/blog/2025/10/14/afterburn-campout-with-burning-man

#BirdWatching #FlyRanch #AfterburnCampout #BirdConservation

The latest from our Jonathan Campion the Little Bustard makes a comeback in Kyrgyzstan with nearly 1,900 nesting birds after being nationally extinct 20 years ago https://ow.ly/BpXn50X9QPI #LittleBustard #KyrgyzWildlife #BirdConservation #EndangeredSpecies #WildlifeRecovery

Once Lost from Kyrgyzstan, Lit...

So, one of our neighbors builds and installs birdhouses for #CaliforniaFields in #Maine (conservation land owned by #PolandSpring / #BlueTriton). The owners recently cleared out a bunch of pine trees, making more grasslands for endangered birds. Here is one of my neighbor's creations (taken yesterday, when it was more hazy).

Read more about the restoration here:
https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/poland-spring-hollis-maine-endangered-birds-grassland-habitat-inland-fisheries-wildlife/97-915df0f7-e07f-46cc-93a1-e9149e18d4b4

#BirdConservation #GrasslandRestoration #MeadowRestoration #Birdhouses #SolarPunkSunday

The world’s only alpine parrot – the curious, clever, and often mischievous kea 🦜

Photographed here in its natural habitat in Otira, New Zealand, with the snow-covered Southern Alps as a backdrop. These endangered birds are full of personality and play a vital role in our mountain ecosystems.
Let’s protect what’s left.
#Kea #AlpineParrot #NZWildlife #Conservation #NaturePhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #SouthernAlps #NewZealand #BirdPhotography #Canonphotography #BirdConservation #Parrot #Winter

Farmers are stepping up to help water-loving birds thrive! 🌾🦆 By creating bird-friendly habitats and smarter water use, they're making a difference for wildlife and the planet. Read how agriculture and conservation can work hand-in-hand: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/how-farmers-can-help-rescue-water-loving-birds/ #BirdConservation #SustainableFarming #WildlifeProtection #newz

When I entered my friend’s newly built guest house near San Diego, I admired the broad glass front that opened up to a panoramic view over the valley.

An hour later, an egg-yolk-yellow warbler was writhing in front of the glass entry door.

This experience became a wake-up call about the invisible dangers of windows.

#BirdConservation #Nature