State of the Birds: Documenting Changes in Massachusetts Birdlife

Sponsor a Page in the New Online Breeding Bird Atlas!

Select from more than 200 species of birds
that breed in Massachusetts

When you make a gift of $1,000 or more to our Bird Conservation Campaign, we will include your name — or the name of someone you'd like to honor — on the species web page of your choice.

Only one sponsor per species, so contact Henrietta Yelle by email, or by phone at 781-259-2239 to reserve your favorite bird now!

Massachusetts breeding bird species list
Find our more about our Bird Conservation Campaign

What is the Breeding Bird Atlas?

From 1974 to 1979, Mass Audubon, with the help of hundreds of birders throughout the state, collected data on all of the breeding birds in Massachusetts, and compiled that data into the first Massachusetts Breeding Bird Atlas.

Now, 30 years later, thanks to the success of our latest Breeding Bird Atlas project (which involved 600 people over five years), Mass Audubon is compiling data for our new Breeding Bird Atlas 2 (BBA2).

BBA2 will be published online, where you’ll have access to detailed species accounts, distribution maps, and beautiful illustrations for each of the 200-plus bird species known to breed in the Commonwealth.

BBA1 and BBA2 have played a critical role in helping us understand the bird population and distribution trends we’ve documented here in The State of the Birds.

Be part of this amazing project! Contact Henrietta Yelle at 781-259-2239 to reserve your favorite bird now!