2018 AMJV Year in Review
The 2018 AMJV Year in Review, including updates from AMJV partners and a special tribute to David Pashley,
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The 2018 AMJV Year in Review, including updates from AMJV partners and a special tribute to David Pashley,
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NABCI helps the bird conservation community speak with a unified voice about top priorities that our federal, state,
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 27, 2018) – The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) today announced 13 grant awards
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August 28, 2018 – by Judith Scarl, NABCI Coordinator – Today I am excited to share NABCI’s new
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Do you love conservation enough to show your commitment with a tattoo?! 🤩 The folks at the NWTF Headquarters office do...well, the turkey print tattoos were temporary, but it's the thought that counts, right? 😀
Don't worry - if tattoos aren't your thing, there are plenty of other ways to show your commitment to conservation. Here are a few ideas: volunteer with environmental projects 🧚♀️; donate to organizations that focus on conservation projects near and dear to your heart 💲❤️; live a "greener" life ♻️; spread the word of conservation with friends and family (you can easily do this by sharing social media posts!) 💻; buy local veggies at farmers markets 🥦🥒🥕; turn your backyard into a pollinator, wildlife, and bird-friendly oasis 🦅🦉🦇🦋🐝🐛🐞🐢; #DrinkBirdFriendly coffee 🐦☕️; capture nature's beauty in photographs and share them with others 🌄📷; keep your cats safely indoors 🐱🐱🐱; make biodegradable confetti for celebrations using leaves and a hole punch 🍁🍂🌱🎉; foster a love and respect for nature in young folks by making it a priority to spend time with them outside 🚣♀️🚣♂️; and, last but not least, invite your Facebook friends to like our AMJV Facebook page! (shameless request)🙌 😎We’re committed to conservation, not tattoos, so we took the {temporary} route to celebrate National Tattoo Day with a round of turkey feet at headquarters. Do you have a hunting related tattoo?
Happy Monday, everyone! If you're looking for some wildlife-oriented reading material to enjoy with your #BirdFriendlyCoffee this morning, you're in luck - the newest edition of the U.S. FWS "Fish & Wildlife News" is available below 👇One U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service program has its hands in work on boating access, coastal wetlands, hunter education, multistate conservation, sport fish restoration, tribal wildlife, wildlife restoration and more. Find out some of what the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program, or WSFR, does in this quarter’s “Fish & Wildlife News.” https://www.fws.gov/home/fwn/pdf/Summer-News19_final.pdf
📣 It’s Feathered Friends Friday here at Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture #AMJV!
In honor of Independence Day this month, many bird organizations are highlighting “American” birds (those with American in their names). We thought that was a pretty great idea, so we’re following suit.
Today, we’re focusing on the American Kestrel (which also happens to be American Bird Conservancy's bird of the week!). As described by Audubon, though the American Kestrel is the smallest falcon in North America, it is also the most familiar and widespread. The kestrel call sounds like “Killy, killy, killy, killy,” which seems fitting since these colorful, beautiful falcons are fierce predators. They are known to mostly feed on grasshoppers and other large insects, but they also sometimes eat bats and other birds! American Kestrels are cavity nesters, utilizing nest boxes that conservationists supply in areas where no snags (dead trees) are available. To learn more about the American Kestrel (and to see another really great picture of a kestrel pair), check out: abcbirds.org/bird/american-kestrel/
You can also find American Kestrel information here:
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Kestrel/id
www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/american-kestrel
Have you ever spotted an American Kestrel? Comment below! We’d love to know when and where you saw one of these small but mighty falcons! We also want to highlight and give thanks for the conservation work of engaged landowners, organizations, and agencies that help these and other AMJV Feathered Friends (feel free to tag any organizations not mentioned!) 🙌👏! American Bird Conservancy National Audubon Society Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Note: Thank you to everyone who enjoyed our Feather Friends Friday coloring pages, and we want to give a huge shoutout to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company (many thanks, Peterson Field Guides 🙌!) for allowing us to use images from their coloring book for our AMJV coloring pages. Even though we won’t be posting any more pages, remember that the full Peterson Field Guide Coloring Book: Birds © 1982 by Houghton Mifflin Company, authors Peter Alden and John Sill, including coloring images, descriptions, and matching color stickers for 262 species, is available for purchase! This and other Peterson Field Guide Coloring Books (& Field Guides) for mammals, wildflowers, shells, and more 🐇🐚🌸🐿🦝 are available wherever books are sold - awesome, right?!
Use of the beautiful pictures below is courtesy of ABC, Captivelight/Shutterstock, Chris Hill/Shutterstock, and Tom Grey.
To learn about how you can live a bird-friendly life and help to create and conserve habitat for this and many other species of birds, check out:
amjv.org/
abcbirds.org
#AmericanBirds
I love to watch them hunt over fields in Valley Forge Park, Pa.
I saw one back in the fall in Washington County, VA.
Working both collectively and independently, joint venture partners conduct activities in support of bird conservation goals developed by the partnership. Our strength is in our ability to strategically deliver conservation actions at a scale and scope unachievable by any single agency or organization.
