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Invasive Species Focus: Dame’s Rocket
Dame's rocket in bloom Michigan Audubon needs your help once again in pulling invasive species on your own! We recently described how you could do a DIY garlic mustard pull, helping to remove a harmful non-native plant from [...]
Systemic racism has no place anywhere, especially nature
Dear friends, We as an organization are astonished, enraged, and deeply saddened by recent social and political events that have brought to greater light the toxic, systemic racism in the United States. The list of its victims keeps getting longer [...]
Get Excited About Native Plants!
Nodding wild onion (Allium cernuum) and cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum) add structural diversity at Capital City Bird Sanctuary. Photo by Linnea Rowse. What is a native plant? Native plants are those that are naturally found in your [...]
Celebrating Spring Amphibians
The herps are here, the herps are here! Not a chant you grew up with in the spring? Me neither (although, I probably would have welcomed any sort of turtle-tracking, snake-sleuthing, frog-finding tradition!). Herpetology is focused on [...]
Michigan Young Birders Camp Goes Virtual
Given the current situation with COVID-19 and out of an abundance of caution for health and safety, we have made the difficult decision to suspend our in-person camp experience for the summer of 2020, and will instead be offering [...]
Rodenticides Kill More Than Rodents: They pose a fatal threat to birds of prey and to healthy ecosystems
It can surface out of nowhere, the seemingly inevitable need to deal with a dreaded rodent issue in our home or workplace. It’s a reality we’re even a bit resigned to, accepting that, at some point, rodent(s) of some variety [...]
Invasive Species Focus: Pulling garlic mustard lets you enjoy being outdoors while making a positive impact!
If you are headed outside for exercise in areas near home or at Michigan Audubon sanctuaries, consider giving some of your time to improve the health of nature surrounding you at the same time: be a garlic mustard volunteer! [...]
Five-Mile Radius Birding: Keeping it close to home
This article originally appeared in the 2020 Winter Jack Pine Warbler. Please see Michigan Audubon's position on birding-related travel decisions following this piece. Five-Mile Radius Birding: Keeping it close to home by Kirby Adams How many species of birds can [...]
Michigan Audubon Photography Awards Accepting Submissions
Formerly known as the Jack Pine Warbler Cover Photo Contest, the Michigan Audubon Photography Awards is a revamped photography extravaganza featuring new categories and increased ways for your photographs to help raise awareness about birds and the habitats they [...]
Bird by Bird Students Delighted by Turkey Vulture Facts
In a February visit to the C.A. Frost Environmental Science Academy, approximately 75 first-grade students were mesmerized while learning facts about Turkey Vultures — the good, the bad, and the ugly of it all. Their collective "awwws" while looking [...]