• Posts tagged with conservation

    “Getting Rusty” with a Spring Migration Blitz

    “Getting Rusty” with a Spring Migration Blitz

    Have you heard a squeaky-hinge song lately, or seen a flash of rust-tipped feathers under a bright yellow eye?  Once…

    VCE Brown Bag Lunch Series: Conserving Plants and Animals in a Changing Climate

    VCE Brown Bag Lunch Series: Conserving Plants and Animals in a Changing Climate

    Please join us for our upcoming  informal brown bag lunch seminar with Dr. Hector Galbraith on January 14th at noon. Bring your…

    Access matters: closed fields?

    Access matters: closed fields?

    From the Birding Community E-bulletin: opportunities for those who enjoy grasslands – from birders to hunters – are vanishing. Across…

    Grasshopper Sparrow singing

    Grasshopper Sparrow Listed in Eastern Canada

    Owing to population declines that have been taking place over the past four decades in eastern Canada, the Committee on the…

    Bumble Bees in Peril

    Bumble Bees in Peril

    Unprecedented search by VCE reveals four species either extinct or declining More than one-quarter of Vermont’s bumble bee species, which…

    Exposure to common herbicide could threaten global amphibian population

    Exposure to common herbicide could threaten global amphibian population

    Early-life exposure to the herbicide atrazine makes frogs more susceptible to death from chytrid (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis), a fungal disease implicated…

    Grassland bird experts seek solutions at national gathering

    Grassland bird experts seek solutions at national gathering

    This week leading grassland bird conservationists in the U.S. are wrangling with the drastic challenges faced by declining grassland bird…

    Help VCE Upgrade the Loon Nest-Warning Signs

    Help VCE Upgrade the Loon Nest-Warning Signs

    Hearing the ghostly call of the loon coming through the evening mist is one of the quintessential experiences of being…

    Another Record Year for Loons in Vermont

    Another Record Year for Loons in Vermont

    We feel like a skipping record saying, “it’s another record year,” but it was yet again! Thank you volunteers and…

    Studies report leading causes of bird deaths in Canada

    Studies report leading causes of bird deaths in Canada

    From cats to communications towers, the current issue of Avian Conservation and Ecology lays out the 9 leading sources of…