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NYC Audubon News ArchiveAudubon Anniversary and NYC Audubon in the NY TimesNYC Audubon's initiatives were featured in an editorial on the 100th anniversary of the National Audubon Society by Francis X. Clines in the New York Times which featured
Pale Male and the Great Backyard Bird Count. 106th Audubon Christmas Bird Count - 12/14/05 - 1/05/06$5 per observer (Free for participants 12 years of age or younger)
Birding Adventure with NYC AudubonThis was my first birding expedition. I boarded the NYC Audubon van on an early Friday morning in May for a three-day adventure that would take us through Delaware Maryland and Virginia. A bonified neophyte left in the visual dust of the others. Before this my birding was just about limited to Gulls, Sandpipers, Egrets, Herons, Canada geese and the magnificent Cardinal that visits my garden. (more) City Birding Challenge Winners!
NYC Audubon Wins AwardNYC Audubon received a 2005 APEX Award for Publication Excellence for our Look Around NYC newsletter for children, citing volunteers Naola Gersten-Woolf as publisher and Cecelia Rogers as Art Director for their contribution. The award was in the Most Improved category for the new layout and design of this staple publication of the chapter. To read last year's award-winning editions, please click here. Harbor Herons Experience
Christmas Bird Count Final Tally for New Jersey Lower Hudson RegionConserving Birds in a Human Dominated Landscape
Documenting Van Cortlandt's bird diversity
Urban Red-Tails: The Queens Experience
Protecting important bird habitat in Staten IslandStory and photos by Yigal Gelb
All quiet at the Tribute in LightBy Yigal Gelb. Pictures by Yigal Gelb and Nicole Delacretaz.
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The results are in for NYC Audubon’s 1st City Birding Challenge and it was a close one!
This summer, NYC Audubon's Harbor Herons Monitoring Program collected data on the herons, egrets, and ibis nesting in New York Harbor. Monitoring from the shore, the sea, and the air provided a wealth of information that will be used to protect and conserve these beautiful birds.
Last month, NYC Audubon was selected by the American Museum of Natural History to participate in a poster session for the "Conserving Birds in a Human Dominated Landscape" symposium that took place on April 27th and 28th. 
Located in the western part of the Bronx, Van Cortlandt Park is the third largest park in New York City with an area of 1,146 acres. Incorporating vast natural areas, this park provides habitat for both migrating and breeding birds and was identified as an Important Bird Area by the National Audubon Society. 
The urban environment is not where most people would expect to see a raptor of any kind. Red-tailed hawk is a species most commonly associated with woodlands, farms and open land. Over the last decade in Queens, NY, raptors have adopted a new territory within our urban landscape.
On a nice sunny September morning Clark Wallace, Project Manager for the Trust for Public Land, his assistant, Kim Musler, and I made our way over to the western part of Staten Island. Our goal was to survey several land parcels with the intention of nominating them to New York – New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program’s list of Priority Acquisition Sites. 
On the evening of September 11, 2006, NYC Audubon staff and volunteers made their way to a parking garage in downtown Manhattan. Passing through security guards and various production people, we reached the top floor which housed the enormous lights that generate the two light columns of the Tribute in Light. 
