The endangered California Least Tern is making its annual trip up the coast to breed on our beaches. The bird is particularly sensitive to habitat loss and disturbance during this period, so if you see any on the beach, keep your distance. While we know this bird is coming from Mexico, exactly where it winters [...]

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Spread your wings (hehe, see what we did there?) this Earth Day and discover your local Audubon chapter. Here is a list of volunteer opportunities, but please add any we missed in the comments, and if you want to find an event in your neck of the woods search our directory: Eastern Sierra Audubon Society [...]

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Audubon was making an impact long before the establishment of Audubon California in 1996. Check out the slideshow below for a quick overview (click on the arrows to advance the slides): Share on Facebook

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Terrific story out of Los Angeles about how a native garden at a public school downtown is doing the kids a world of good. Share on Facebook

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Audubon chapters in the Pacific Flyway did amazing things in 2012. After receiving reports from 91 chapters, we created the infographic below: Share on Facebook

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Remember that controversy over the holidays where the Army Corps tore up habitat at the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Preserve over the holidays? Well, thanks to our friends at the San Fernando Valley Audubon Society, things are better now. Share on Facebook

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KCET is reporting that significant progress has been made between the Army Corps of Engineers and the San Fernando Valley Audubon Society following the Corps’ surprising destruction of natural habitat at the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve. Share on Facebook

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Decades ago, Pete Bloom helped capture the last wild California Condor for captive breeding — and thus helped save this marvelous species from extinction. He went on to become of our country’s best raptor field experts. You can meet Bloom at Los Angeles Audubon’s monthly program at the Audubon Center at Debs Park. He’ll be [...]

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If you’ve been following this issue, you know that the Altamont Pass wind energy farm has long been a black eye on the alternative energy industry because of the massive numbers of birds that are killed in the turbines. The fight against this outrage has been led by Golden Gate Audubon and a coalition of [...]

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If you haven’t seen it, the Los Angeles Audubon Society has the coolest comic book on its website touting the idea of killing your lawn and installing native plants for birds and other wildlife. It was written and illustrated by the students in the chapter’s Baldwin Hills Greenhouse Program. Super cool. Share on Facebook

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The Los Angeles Times is reporting today that the Army Corps of Engineers didn’t even the proper permits when it went in and wrecked a ton of natural habitat at the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Refuge over the holidays. Share on Facebook

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The uproar over the recent Army Corps of Engineers’ actions at the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve is continuing. And our friends at the San Fernando Valley Audubon Society tell us that they aren’t going to let up until things are made right again. San Fernando Audubon has a lot more about this on its website, [...]

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Locals in Pt. Arena worried that their fabled Laysan Albatross hadn’t arrived to spend the winter in their harbor were pleased to discover this week that the bird, nicknamed Al, had finally arrived. Al’s strange embrace of Pt. Arena has been documented for years, and become the stuff of local legend. For more of the [...]

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Over the years, the San Fernando Valley Audubon Society has done a lot to protect and celebrate bird habitat in the Sepulveda Basin. So our friends there were outraged when they found that the Army Corps of Engineers had gone in there and wiped out a lot of great vegetation. Kudos to the Audubon chapter [...]

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For the past several years, member of the Arroyo Green Team have participated in Aududon’s annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC). This year, members headed out into Debs Park to see what birds were around.

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