Regional News
Check here for the latest news from Mass Audubon wildlife sanctuaries around the state.
Cape Cod and Islands Events
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Now in its 24th year, the annual Cape Cod Natural History Conference features speakers from environmental organizations across Cape Cod discussing a wide array of natural history topics.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Make plans to join us for a quintessential Cape Cod summer evening under the stars and help raise critical funding for Wellfleet Bay's conservation and education programs.
Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary
Join us at Cape Cod Beer to learn about the Cape's fascinating wildlife while enjoying some locally-crafted brews. February's topic is "Learning About Whales by Eavesdropping on Their Songs."
Cape Cod and Islands News
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Wellfleet Bay has been chosen as a beneficiary of the 2019 Seaside Le Mans race! This extraordinary opportunity will help expand our conservation science education programs to underserved children, strengthen existing school programs, and provide new learning opportunities at the sanctuary.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
After 36 years at the helm of Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Bob Prescott has announced his decision to retire. (Sort of.)
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Outer Cape school children—most of whom live within 15 minutes or less from a bay beach—are getting front row seats for what’s become a unique natural phenomenon that occurs practically in their own backyards.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Join us this fall and winter for sociable and educational bird talks! Warm beverages and sweet treats will be provided. Next program is February 14.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Our late summer predictions of a busy fall season came true. Wellfleet Bay volunteers and staff rescued or recovered more than 800 cold-stunned sea turtles this year—our second biggest season ever. Updated January 7.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Registration is now open for our Summer Camps in Wellfleet and Chatham! We’re looking forward to sunshine, summertime, and days filled with adventure in the great outdoors.
Sesachacha Heathlands Wildlife Sanctuary
After finding a dead bat that wasn’t typically found on Nantucket, researchers began monitoring the island’s bat population. They discovered that this federally threatened bat species wasn’t so rare on Nantucket after all.
Sesachacha Heathlands Wildlife Sanctuary
As part of a new partnership between Mass Audubon and UMass Boston, 12 high school students from Boston schools who are participating in the Urban Scholars Program visited the UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station to meet with local scientists and environmentalists.
Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary
Join us on March 2 to learn all about Nature Preschool Explorers, our drop-off enrichment program for children ages 3-5. New program sessions begin in fall 2019.
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
We recently sat down with a group of 10- and 11-year-old students from the West Tisbury School who launched the group called "Plastic Free MV." Their goal? Banning plastic non-reusable water bottles and soda bottles under 34 ounces on all of Martha’s Vineyard.
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
Birding fans know that attempting to complete a Big Year is a highly competitive enterprise. As we learn early in Birding Without Borders, Noah Strycker’s entertaining account of his 2015 International Big Year, this type of adventure is a bird of a different feather.
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
Registration is now open for Fern & Feather Day Camp in Edgartown! We’re looking forward to sunshine, summertime, and days filled with adventure in the great outdoors.
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
Felix Neck soared this year, and we want to share some of the accomplishments made possible by our nature community. Find out about our year of learning and teaching, sharing nature, and protecting wildlife in our Annual Report.
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
In the winter months, when animal activity seems to be down, you can often find signs of the few animals that remain active on Martha’s Vineyard this time of year—especially in freshly fallen snow.
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
Felix Neck Sanctuary Director Suzan Bellincampi recently published her second book, The Nature of Martha’s Vineyard, a collection of nature essays that gathers the best of the nature columns she's penned over more than 16 years.
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
Summer 2018 was an incredible season for the monitoring of our local shorebird, Osprey, and horseshoe crab populations—both in the numbers of these animals recorded as well as in the turnout of dedicated and eager volunteers who led the charge.
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
It was a historic year for Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary. Early 2017 brought the end of a very quick—and successful—fundraising campaign that enabled construction to start on the sanctuary’s first new building in 50 years.