Nature has to confront things, they have enemies who work together to solve a specific problem. What biomimicry does is it teaches collaboration, it teaches systems thinking. And that is different than what we think of as humans most of the time. And once we get our brains together on a cumulative basis, it’s amazing what we can go ahead and solve.
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The Glacier Bird of the Andes by Doug Hardy, Founder, Norwich Vermont Birds & Beans Coffee Club8/3/2018 Doug Hardy founded and runs the Norwich Vermont Birds & Beans Coffee Club. Since November 2012 the Club has purchased nearly 6,000 pounds of our Smithsonian certified shade grown, Organic and Fair Trade ‘Bird Friendly®’ supporting migratory birds and family coffee farms. Now more than ever, it is imperative Ohio conservation interests connect, communicate, and collaborate as a united front for nature and the environment. In 2018 Year of the Bird, the Bald Eagle, Kirtland's Warbler, Least Tern, Piping Plover, Rufa Red Knot and the Whooping Crane have been Federally-listed as threatened, endangered, proposed, or candidate species' by the USFWS in 8 midwest states. Here are some simple ways to help protect birds in our area, perhaps your yard, neighborhood, and beyond. At my home, the window with the view of the bird feeder is my favorite window. If you have one of these views in your home, I would imagine you delight in the surprises and tranquility it can bring. As the seasons change, the tiny feathered visitors change also. When March finds us, we can get truly excited both in the freedom that warmer temperatures bring and the beginning movements of birds back into and through the region. Fundraising for important communication projects, like Lights Out Cleveland, has gotten specific companies downtown to agree to turn out their lights during migration so that birds will not be hurt so much. Americans drink over a third of the world’s coffee. If we all buy and drink Bird Friendly certified coffee, songbirds, farmers and future generations of bird lovers will be sure that the birds return every year. Beautiful Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) by Kathy Murphy, Member, Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society, on Sunday Sept 17, 2017. Just east of the Lorain boat docks, on the peninsula that goes into Lake Erie. We had to start from the beginning to develop these methods but they are now becoming basic tools for seabird conservation. I know of at least fifty species of seabirds that have benefitted by the same methods that were pioneered in Maine. - Dr. Stephen Kress, Vice-President for Bird Conservation, National Audubon Society and Director, Seabird Restoration Program & Hog Island Camp. Matthew Shumar, Program Coordinator, Lights Out Ohio at Ohio Bird Conservation Initiative (OBCI)7/8/2017 The Lights Out Ohio program aims to reduce migrating bird mortality rates due to nighttime building collisions and increase data collection success with volunteer training and public education. A stunning photographic collection by Dave Lewis. Migrating warblers coming through northern Ohio from May 2016 through May 2017. Most are from Magee Marsh Wildlife Area with a few from Cleveland Lakefront State Park. Visit the exhibit at Carlisle Reservation, Lorain Metro Parks through June 30, 2017. Take a walk with me now through some frozen beautiful local scenery. Larry Rosche, Naturalist and Author, shares a series of stories about discovering nature as a youth, a lifetime of Birding, and how to choose a path of conservation. Right now is the shorebirds big migration time. They are coming through our area heading south. A conversation with Western Cuyahoga Audubon Second Saturday Bird Walk Leaders, Bill Deininger, Ken Gober and Dave Graskemper We need to update and strengthen The Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) to address 21st century threats, such as oil pits, power lines, communications towers, and other deadly hazards, to save the lives of millions of birds. ~ National Audubon Society Tom Romito contributes a personal remembrance of the five-year Rocky River Important Bird Area survey from 2006-2010. Photography Exhibit by Dave Lewis celebrates International Migratory Bird Day, May 13-15th, 2016 at the Perry F. Johnson Wetland Center, Sandy Ridge Reservation, North Ridgeville, Ohio. “The Messenger is particularly effective at sounding the alarm because it makes the issue highly personal. With exclusive footage, and high-tech cinematography, the movie offers an intimate look at the plight of the songbird. Stunning flight sequences...are conveyed in slow motion, making the complexities of wing movement, control, and rhythm visible to the human eye.” - Audubon Western Cuyahoga Audubon is this year's #CIFF40 Community Partner to the movie "Oddball and the Penguins". Western Cuyahoga Audubon at 63rd Annual Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSEF)3/19/2016 At the 2016 NEOSEF, Western Cuyahoga Audubon made awards for outstanding projects relating to birds or conservation with emphasis on local watersheds. We want to have an environment for ourselves that’s rich to enjoy with beautiful flowers, and habitats, and birds - like Cranes.” - Dr. George Archibald, Co-Founder & Senior Conservationist, International Crane Foundation If you tell me how climate change is affecting the bird population in the Rocky River Important Bird Area, I can see that, I can connect to that, it’s something I can grab on to. So, it’s breaking it into manageable pieces. - Stan Searles |
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ConversationsTerry Robison, Dir Natural Resources, Cleveland Metroparks, and Tom Romito, WCAS, talk about the value WCAS members have brought to advance NEO conservation at the Cleveland Metroparks.
Wendy Weirich, Dir Outdoor Experiences, Cleveland Metroparks, Tom Romito, WCAS, and Tim Colborn, Ohio Ornithological Society, talk about the value conservation groups bring to regional conservation efforts and how we can all work together for a better world.
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