As many of you know, Audubon Pennsylvania is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation. Most of our funding come from grants that we have to apply for each year (and hope to receive!) as well as from private donations. We love what we do here at Presque Isle and we hope that you love it as well. Bird Banding started in the 1960s here and Audubon has been carrying on that proud tradition since 2007. There is a lot of wonderful data involved in such a rich banding history but there is also so much more to find out about the thousands of birds that use Presque Isle each spring along their migratory route. In order to keep banding each season though, we are asking for your help. We try to run the program with as much help from volunteers as possible but we do need to be able to keep at least one professionally-trained bird bander on staff to run the station plus, banding supplies are not cheap. Just this morning, we had a deer run through two nets tearing a four foot wide hole in each of them and rendering them unsafe to use. When things like this happen, it is frustrating and unfortunate because mist nets, which are vital to our research, cost upwards of $100.
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation by clicking on this link: Donate Here. Every little bit counts and we here at Audubon thank you and I'm sure if the birds could speak our language they, too, would thank you.
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