Indiana Audubon is inviting you to help the birds this holiday season by donating to IAS on Giving Tuesday. Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year...
Help save the shrike! Indiana Audubon, in partnership with the Division of Fish and Wildlife and the Loggerhead Shrike Working Group have teamed up to help provide shrubs for shrikes in the Adopt a Shrike Program. The DNR’s current efforts are working to provide shrike nesting habitat by focusing on...
Michael L. P. Retter, 2014 Chair, Indiana Bird Records Committee During 2014, the Indiana Bird Records Committee (IBRC) completed evaluations of 39 Indiana bird records involving 22 taxa. Records were evaluated in accordance with the Rules of Operation, most recently revised and adopted in June 2014 by the IBRC...
Every year, thousands of multicolored balloons are released over the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to kick off the Indy 500. While this fan favorite might be considered the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” it is a deadly tradition that needs to end. Balloon debris entangles birds, fish, and several other animals,...
Sanderling (Calidris alba) By Rhiannon Thunell Head to the beach on Lake Michigan in late summer and you will almost certainly spot small shorebirds rushing up and down the beach and back and forth with the waves. I have watched these tiny birds for hours as they chase the...
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