Grab your binoculars this spring and join us for an all–out grassland  
bird blitz! Here is your chance to help put grassland bird “hotspots”  
on the map of the Upper Valley for both Vermont and New Hampshire.

This spring and summer the "Upper Valley Grassland Bird Conservation  
Project" will be scouring fields and farms for grassland birds, and we  
need your help.  We need people to make stops along roadsides, looking  
and listening for just a few grassland bird species, in both VT and  
NH. Easy to do, easy to learn, easy for everyone to participate.

The information you collect will allow us to identify key grassland  
habitats in the region. Then, the following year, we will provide  
willing landowners in those areas with management tools to improve the  
quality of their open lands for grassland birds. What’s more, some  
sites were surveyed in the late 1990s by Massachusetts Audubon and its  
partners, and this survey, 15 years later, will show how changes on  
the land have affected the grassland bird community.

Surveys can be conducted any day in good weather conditions from mid- 
May through early July, in the mornings (5:30 - 9:30am). Volunteers  
are welcome to visit as many sites as they wish.

Help us create more quality habitat for our grassland birds! For more  
information, please contact Jamie Sydoriak at [log in to unmask]

The Upper Valley Grassland Bird Conservation Project is a partnership  
of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, New Hampshire Audubon, and  
Plymouth State University.


Jamie Sydoriak (Plymouth State)
Rosalind Renfrew (Vermont Center for Ecostudies)
Pam Hunt (NH Audubon)