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Did you know that the Scioto-Audubon Metro Park and the Grange Insurance Audubon Center are hotspots for urban wildlife? No, not that kind of wildlife — we mean the real thing! Local photographer Mike Horn has documented some of the wild creatures that can be found right at the Center. You can see some of […]

A group of volunteers led by Tom Sheley of Wild Birds Unlimited in Columbus, Ohio worked with Sheila Fagan to secure and install a Chimney Swift Tower on Monday July 20, 2015 on the construction site at Franklin Heights High School.

This project brought together a great group of volunteers, starting with Franklin Heights faculty members Amy Corbett, Mike Hall, Pat Scott, Tom Lennon and Seth Elsworth. Captain Lennon also invited several students to assist. Area resident Delbert Miller installed and designed the base for the tower. Family and close friends also came to the aid of the project and included Todd Chaney, Dean and Dawn Fagan. Darlene Sillick, local expert on Chimney Swifts and Tim Daniel of the Ohio Division of Wildlife provided guidance for the project. The team worked with Mark Waller Coordinator of Property Services and Construction Projects for South-Western City schools to select the location and plan the timing of the project.

Read all about it in an article from This Week online. For more information and photos, click the Read More button below.

Even Columbus Monthly magazine is on board with EcoWeekend! This annual Columbus Audubon event, held every spring in the beautiful Hocking Hills, is a feautred event for the whole family. You can see the article on the Columbus Monthly Web site (scroll down to find it). We are busily planning EcoWeekend 2016 right now, but

Last week, Rep. Duncan (R-SC) offered an amendment to the Commerce Appropriations Bill to prohibit enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). While there seems to be little appetite to include the Duncan amendment in the Senate version of the bill, and the White House has issued a veto threat, Audubon still needs your

Audubon prides itself on being an organization whose conservation plans are informed by science. Recently, two papers based on Audubon’s climate study have been accepted in peer-reviewed journals: Making Spatial Prioritizations Robust to Climate Change Uncertainties: A Case Study with North American Birds appears in Ecological Applications and Stacked Species Distribution Models and Macroecological Models

Winners of the 2015 National Audubon Society photo contest were announced recently. The contest attracted more than 2,300 participants in four categories — Amateur, Professional, Fine Art, Youth — from all 50 states and 7 Canadian provinces. Nearly 9,000 photographs were entered! You can see the winning images on the Audubon Web site.