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Last weekend, volunteers braved the winter cold to count birds for Bridgerland Audubon’s 68th annual Christmas Bird Count, joining Audubon chapters across the country to track bird populations.
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Looking ahead, Salt Lake City may once again host the winter Olympics in 2034. May our internationally renowned Great Salt Lake be present to welcome them, and may our snow be white and bright, not brown and gone, from a covering of dust blown from an empty lake bed.
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I continue to be astonished by how much there is to appreciate and to learn from our surroundings. It’s amazing to see how just a little preparatory investigation can turn fleeting everyday moments into lifelong learning memories.
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Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count is a prime example of how everyday observations from first-time volunteers and experts alike can make a big difference in understanding changing patterns in our world.
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Swainson’s hawks migrate all the way to Argentina, where they spend the winter months before beginning their migration back in the spring.
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When preparing to start another year teaching 2nd-grade at USU’s Edith Bowen Laboratory School, I decided to integrate birding into my curriculum. I knew that studying birds could be as simple or as complex as I desired, which seemed perfect to help all students make learning gains and make special discoveries throughout the year.
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Birdwatching is a fun hobby for all ages and it is a great way to connect with nature and increase self-efficacy, so let’s discuss the benefits and the importance of a safe environment for feeding our backyard birds.
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The fourth biannual survey of the Intermountain West’s shorebirds took place in August, seeing numbers on par with surveys taken in the 1980s.
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Audubon's driving purpose is that, “When we create conditions for birds to thrive, we create conditions for people and the planet to thrive, too.”
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Shorebirds are a diverse group of birds including sandpipers, plovers, avocets, oystercatchers and phalaropes. There areapproximately 217 recognized species globally, 81 of which occur in the Americas for all or part of their lifecycle with 52 species breeding inNorth America, many of whom visit Utah.