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GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Volunteers on Thursday planted several types of grasses along a stretch of Mississippi Gulf Coast beach to help restore habitat for newly hatched Least Tern chicks. Audubon Delta, along with Harrison County Sand Beach Authority and Gulfport High School partnered to install several species of beach grasses into a globally recognized conservation zone in Gulfport in order to stabilize the beach, encourage dune formation and provide coverage for the endangered birds.

At the Thursday, April 21, meeting of the Land of Waterfalls Camera Club noted author, conservation photographer and educator Mary Lundeberg will present “Photographing Shorebirds.” The meeting, via Zoom, starts

How can wildlife survive in a world increasingly overloaded with discarded pieces of plastic large and small?

On World Water Day, Audubon has identified the most important places for birds and people from Missouri to the Gulf Coast.

Abstract: Nocturnal vocalization in birds is more common than we may assume but is understudied. This paper seeks to understand why some birds sing at night, examining both phylogenetic hypotheses and environmental ones. Though nocturnality has a clear phylogenetic basis, nocturnal vocalization has not been shown to be restricted by phylogeny. It explores the (much