Mass Audubon Blogs

News: Overexploitation of Horseshoe Crabs Continues Despite Overwhelming Support for their Protection  For more than 400 million years, horseshoe crabs have survived in virtually unchanged form. Today, horseshoe crab eggs fuel epic annual migrations of the Red Knot and other coastal birds, but the crabs and other species that depend on them are in trouble.   […]

There’s an old proverb that says great cities are filled with people who plant trees under whose shade they will never sit. On May 12, Mass Audubon and the City of Boston kicked off a program aimed at bringing that proverb to life.  Mayor Michelle Wu joined Mass Audubon President David O’Neill and other guests […]

Late summer means crisp days and cooler nights, swinging back into routines, and savoring the last juicy tomatoes of the season. It also still means mosquitoes, and more rainfall can lead to an uptick in the number of shallow pools that make ideal mosquito breeding territory. Mosquitoes are a public health risk, since they spread diseases like […]

It was a buggy, humid morning over the fields of Conte National Wildlife Refuge in the summer of 2021, and the Barn Swallows were loving it. Fanning and tilting their forked tails, the birds feinted left and right to catch insects. Their two long outer tail feathers trailed behind them as they steered towards prey. […]

On January 29, 2021, Mass Audubon received a donation of 2.73 acres of land next to its Museum of American Bird Art (MABA) in Canton, Massachusetts. The new addition, called the Carroll property, features a lovely series of rapids, or cascades, of Pequit Brook that runs along the Main Loop Trail.  Most of the land […]

Two sessions of Wednesday Morning Birding ventured into the chilly, intermittent rain on October 28 to discover a wonderful world of ducks, both on the ocean and in the impoundment at Stage Island on the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. This fall has seen a very robust migration of seabirds off Plum Island. While we always expect the scoters, eiders, and other seabirds […]

This is a blog post by Sarah Howdy, an amazing educator and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) specialist at the Museum of American Bird Art and Mass Audubon’s Metro South Hub.  Mass Audubon understands the existing and increasing need to dismantle both the symptoms and causes that lead to Black, Indigenous, and People of […]

Metro South sanctuaries, Moose Hill (Sharon), Blue Hills Trailside Museum (Milton), and Stony Brook (Norfolk) have come together with a safe and easy curbside pop-up shop with all of your Valentine’s needs. We have something for everyone from a variety of local artists and our very own maple trees! We are delighted to offer this […]