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More than 300 bird species have been recorded at the 28-acre coastal habitat, which sits on a peninsula jutting into Long Island Sound and the mouth of the Housatonic River estuary.

This hour, we hear about the health of American Oystercatchers, herons, raptors and other native birds from the Connecticut Audubon Society and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

My wife Joan and I have lived in this extraordinary town of New Canaan for 50 years. I am, like my father before me, a dedicated birder. I guess you could say I was born a birder, since my very earliest memory was my dad entering the bedroom I shared with my older brother, whispering […]

It may be because of climate change. Or, maybe, we just have available space. But some...

Connecticut could get nearly $12 million a year in new funding to help protect birds, turtles and endangered species if the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act passes.

Summer is the time for bobolinks, Baltimore orioles and catbirds, columnist Robert Miller...

Volunteers have been tagging and tracking the horseshoe crab populations in the Sound for...

Volunteers have been tagging and tracking the horseshoe crab populations in the Sound for...

The 1980 Connecticut Bird Atlas survey found only a handful of ravens in the state. Now,...

Conservationists in the Northern Appalachian-Acadian region are changing how they think about forest protection and management, by bringing together mainstream ecological knowledge with Indigenous ecology and culture. Five regional partners including the Wildlands Network and Two Countries One Forest held a conference outlining a shared vision, called "Future Forests Reimagined," and now they are working to apply it. Megan de Graaf, forest program director for Forests Interna...