The Greater Kansas City Chapter of the National Audubon Society
Front side of tri-fold sheet. Have you ever heard Snowy Owls described as “friendly”? One of my favorites, the Kestrel, made the cover. We enjoy a lot of raptor sightings during these bleak winter months, but it has been a struggle for decades to save these birds from extermination. (For more details, see my…
Neltje Blanchan was married to Doubleday Publishing Company’s founder (hence the pencil note). The photo on the left shows a mounted Passenger Pigeon, exactly one-half life size. Unfortunately, her comment about “the modern mind” being “accustomed to deal only with pitiful remnants of feathered races” was a completely accurate foreshadowing of the situation of some…
Many people now have their eye on the population numbers of the monarch butterfly. A species that numbered 1 billion in 1996 hit an all time low of 25 million butterflies covering 0.67 hectares on their overwintering grounds in Mexico in 2013/2014. In 2013 The World Wildlife Fund declared the Monarch Migration endangered and in 2014…
Each fall, with blazing colors coating the trees, waterfowl are beckoned back to Missouri, Kansas and southward. Often listed as favorites for their colorful plumage and sometimes canny behavior, ducks recharge and rest on the lakes and wetlands. A record number of 49.5 million breeding ducks were reported on surveys in 2015. That’s 49.5% above…
Kansas City Metropolitan Area Monarch Butterfly Conservation: A Multi-Sector Partnership Burroughs Audubon and a consortium of partners are pleased to announce a major grant award of $229,868 from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to restore or improve 1,400 acres of monarch habitat in greater Kansas City. Monarch butterfly populations have declined by over 90%…
Snowball Hill Prairie Native, remnant prairie is the least conserved, most endangered ecosystem on the planet. We have less than 1% left of the vast grassland that covered a large portion of Missouri. This grassland is important for many species including grassland birds. Snowball Hill is a diverse prairie on a hillside near Harrisonville in…