February 2020 Photo-observation of the Month

Congratulations to killamfarm for winning the February 2020 Vermont Atlas of Life iNaturalist photo-observation of the month. The image of a Common Raccoon (Procyon lotor)

Vermont eBirders Gather Big Bird Data During County Quest

phoebe, a rare visitor found in late november, vermont birders scoured the state to discover as many bird species as possible during the...

Volunteers Help the Vermont Atlas of Life Build Biodiversity Big Data in 2019

from the first observation of 2019, a barred owl sitting on a deck, to a christmas fern laying on snow on the last...

Gifts for the Conservation-minded Person Who Has Everything

of a fun and educational outing with a VCE wildlife expert! Contact VCE’s Director of Communications for more information or to purchase one...

press release UPSA migration patterns

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 20, 2019 517 words Jason Hill Vermont Center for Ecostudies 802.6491431 Ext. 212 Karen Bourque Director of Communications...

New VCE Study Reveals Surprising Upland Sandpiper Migration Patterns

traveled remained a mystery… until now. VCE’s recent paper in the Open Access journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution unveils surprising new information...

August 2019 Photo-observation of the Month

Congratulations to JoAnne Russo for winning the August 2019 Vermont Atlas of Life iNaturalist photo-observation of the month. JoAnne captured this Scudder's Bush Katydid (Genus Scudderia) in the act of

The Colby Loon

rose west, vce's 2019 alexander dickey conservation intern, provides a personal account of monitoring a distressed loon for the vermont loon conservation project....

Mansfield Update: the Joys (and Pains) of Banding

VCE's seventh banding session on Mansfield yielded our biggest total of the season (but still <50 birds), two very old Bicknell's Thrushes, and a

May 2019 Photo-observation of the Month

Congratulations to Charlotte Bill for winning the May 2019 Vermont Atlas of Life iNaturalist photo-observation of the month. Charlotte wrote that "...it had just captured a small