Birding Wire

Funding

A $10,000 grant from the DSC Foundation, a charitable arm of the Dallas Safari Club, will fund Delta Waterfowl studies aiming to use drone technology to find over-water nesting ducks such as canvasbacks, monitor densities of waterfowl predators, and detect the nests of upland-nesting birds such as mallards, pintails, teal, pheasants, songbirds and piping plovers.
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Audubon Connecticut was honored to be one of 25 grant award recipients of the Long Island Sound Futures Fund (LISFF)—with a generous matching grant of $35,000 going towards the Audubon WildLife Guards (WLG), a coastal stewardship and youth conservation training program.
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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced $48.8 million in grants have been approved by the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, which provides the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners the ability to purchase, lease or otherwise conserve more than 275,000 acres of wetland and associated upland habitats for waterfowl, shorebirds and other birds across North America.
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