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Fall Hawk Migration is in the Air Hawks, falcons, and vultures are among the few groups of birds that migrate during the day. Unlike songbirds and waterfowl, which migrate under cover of night, raptors are actually visible as they make their long journeys across continents. Although...

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Take 5: August Facebook Favorites Over the course of the 2020 Photo Contest, we will be highlighting 5 photos from the previous month’s entries on Facebook and asking fans to select their favorite. This is just a fun way of sharing some of the...

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Student Ambassador to Mass Audubon Receives... As schools are getting back in session, we want to honor recent graduate and Mass Audubon alum Maria Vasco, an environmental studies and sustainability major in the School for the Environment at UMass Boston. Maria received the top two honors a...

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You Asked, We Answered – Land, Hemlocks, and... Last week, Olivia Barksdale, Mass Audubon’s Conservation Restriction Stewardship Specialist, journeyed into Rutland Brook wildlife sanctuary in Petersham to talk about land, hemlock trees, and climate change. An Overview of Hemlocks Hemlock trees...

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Take 5: You Musk Be Joking! While they do belong to the order Rodentia), muskrats are not, in fact, rats at all (i.e. members of the genus Rattus). Plus, they’re actually more closely related to lemmings than they are to their look-a-like cousins, beavers. The latter is...

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Looking to Land for Climate Solutions It’s time to talk about land. Not just about the diverse habitats, wildlife, and plants undeveloped land contains, but also the myriad of solutions land holds to our environment’s most pressing problem: climate change. When we look to land, we can...

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Take 5: Go For the Goldfinch Out of the corner of your eye, a sunny, cheerful flash of bright yellow alights upon your bird feeder and almost certainly means one thing: the American Goldfinch! Almost exclusively seed-eaters, the so-called “wild canaries” of the...

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Pushing Forward in Spite of Methane Rollbacks In a big setback for US climate action, the federal government has rolled back requirements for capturing methane pollution. On Friday, August 14, the EPA finalized a rule that lets oil and gas companies off the hook for their methane emissions,...

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Take 5: Hail to the Kingfisher “He may generally be seen sitting on some post or dead branch, near a solitary mill-dam, quietly watching his prey in the element below.” William Peabody, in his 1839 report to the state legislature on the birds of Massachusetts. Belted Kingfishers...

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You Asked, We Answered – Climate Action 101 On August 7, Zach D’Arbeloff, Education Coordinator and Camp Director at Blue Hills Trailside Museum took over Mass Audubon’s Instagram story to answer all your questions about climate action!  We took it back-to-basics this...

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