Minnesota's birds need your help! Donors are critical to our efforts to protect birds and their habitats throughout Minnesota. Gifts to Audubon Minnesota stay in Minnesota to support local programs.

Audubon’s mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats, for the benefit of humanity and the earth’s biological diversity. Audubon’s employs three approaches to conservation: science-based bird and habitat conservation, policy, and environmental education, to achieve our mission.

Working with Audubon chapters and others, we strive to prevent declines of Minnesota’s “at-risk” watch list bird species and “vulnerable” common bird species through the active protection and restoration of Important Bird Areas using conservation, advocacy, and education.

These are just a few of our accomplishments over the last year:
• Audubon Minnesota has taken the leading role in a six-year process of development and production of a Breeding Bird Atlas for Minnesota. Bird conservation begins with knowing where critical species breed. Minnesota is one of only seven states without an Atlas. The state has never undertaken a statewide breeding bird survey, and therefore, has no baseline information on how to track the health and changes of the birds that rely on our state to rear their young.
• We again worked with the National Park Service to monitor the health of bald eagle nestlings along the Mississippi. St. Croix and Minnesota rivers. Because of the bald eagle’s place at the top of the food chain and their role as a charismatic species, they are excellent biosentinels of ecosystem health and important messengers of this to the public.
• Participation grew in our BirdSafe/LightsOut program to reduce the high mortality rates of migratory birds in metropolitan areas. By simply turning off unnecessary lighting in tall buildings during migration, bird collisions can be reduced by 80%. We are pleased to have 38 current participants (buildings) in this program, and plan to expand that number to over 60 by next spring’s migration.
• In a groundbreaking piece of legislation, the State of Minnesota adopted LightsOut protocols for nearly 6,000 state buildings this spring. Written by Representative Phillis Kahn and signed into law by Governor Pawlenty, the state will save energy and migrating bird life each migration season.

You can help keep this and other important conservation work growing this year with an on-line contribution today. Together, we can work to make sure we, and future generations will nurture a commitment to resource conservation and a passionate respect for nature.

Through hard science, education and policy efforts, and your commitment, we will be here for Minnesota’s birds every step of the way. Thank you for choosing to help Audubon Minnesota.