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#BlackBirdersWeek: May 30 to June 5
Graphic designed by Sheridan Alford and Danielle Bettany. The inaugural Black Birders Week took place in 2020 and quickly became a viral movement. This now-annual event addresses the challenges Black birdwatchers face, such as underrepresentation and overt [...]
Registration Now Open For 2021 Michigan Young Birders Camp
We are so excited for the revamped 2021 Michigan Young Birders Camp! This virtual experience for 13- to 18-year-olds meets on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the last three weeks of July with independent learning opportunities in between. Our goal [...]
SR 20: An Update on Proposed Sandhill Crane Hunt in Michigan
Sandhill Cranes. Photo by L. Pagel Senate Resolution 20, a proposal to designate the Sandhill Crane a game species and establish a hunting season in Michigan, was again heard by the Michigan Senate Committee on Natural Resources in [...]
Volunteer at Bird Sanctuaries
It’s feeling a lot like spring! We can officially enjoy the warmth and longer days and start to plan to give back what we can to the Michigan Audubon bird sanctuaries in the form of on-the-ground work. Each year, Michigan [...]
Accepting Submissions for 2021 Michigan Audubon Photography Awards
We have extended the deadline for submissions to June 25, 2021!!! Each year, we look forward to the amazing photography submitted to this contest featuring the birds we all love! Not only can your photographs share the beauty of [...]
MYBN Species Spotlight: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
My eyes follow up the trunk of a maple until it splits into a Y. A flash of black and white wings appears in front of me. It descends upon the oily black plumage of a startled starling, an [...]
Cerulean Warbler Tours Available This Spring
UPDATE: All tours are at capacity. Please utilize the registration form if you would like to be added to a waiting list in the event that registrants cancel. Michigan Audubon is delighted to announce that we are offering Cerulean Warbler [...]
Michigan Audubon Signature Sanctuary Seasonal Highlights — Spring 2021
Spring brings warmth, growth, longer days, and a chorus of sounds. At Michigan Audubon’s signature sanctuaries, you might find pairs of Wood Ducks investigating cavity holes high up in trees, Tree Swallows or Eastern Bluebirds claiming nest boxes, spring [...]
Headed East
During my spring break, the last week of March, my family and I headed out east. It takes about nine hours to drive 620 miles to Princeton, New Jersey, but if you bird in the car, time flies. Princeton’s [...]
Invasive Species Focus: Garlic Mustard
Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) sprouts are already growing with the warm spring weather. Soon we will be seeing shoots growing vertically from the basal rosette, and its tiny white flowers soon thereafter. Garlic mustard, a noxious weed and aggressive [...]