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2024 to 2025 Duck stamp

The BBC is selling the Federal Migratory Bird Conservation and Hunting Stamp, also known as the Duck Stamp, through February 15. The current Stamp is good from July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025. We do this in support of the National Wildlife Refuge System and to support conservation of federal lands.

To purchase your Stamp through the Brookline Bird Club, send a $25 check made payable to: Brookline Bird Club. Include a stamped, self-addressed envelope and send to: Chris Hughes, 4 Pelham Road, Weston, MA 02493. Holders/keychains are $2 each. Please, NO self-addressed stamped envelope with any order containing a holder since they require additional packaging!

The 2025 Stamp is valid through June 30, 2025. Entrance to any of the 573 national wildlife refuge in the United States is FREE when you show your Stamp, including Parker River and Great Meadows, among others.

Ninety-eight cents of every Stamp dollar goes to land acquisition from willing sellers through purchase or easements. Since 1934, Stamp sales have generated more than $1.2 billion to protect over 6 million acres of wetlands habitat on national wildlife refuges around the nation. The newest, Southern Maryland Woodlands National Wildlife Refuge, was established in December 2024. Of the 32 refuges in New England, 11 are in Massachusetts, including Parker River, Monomoy, Great Meadows, Oxbow, and Assabet River. With our large membership, purchasing a $25 Stamp can make a significant contribution to the continued protection of these important habitats.

For more information about the National Wildlife Refuge System, go to the US Fish & Wildlife Service. For more information on the Stamp, go to the FWS Duck Stamp page. Friends of the Stamp features Stamp news, links, a calendar of upcoming events, and more.

You can also continue to buy your stamp at refuge offices, admission booths, and post offices or online from either USPS or www.duckstamp.com.

Join us in supporting our national wildlife refuges and this important conservation program by buying a Stamp today!

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  • Neponset River Greenway – An Urban Oasis

    Boston - Neponset River Greenway, Mattapan to Milton (T accessible) 1674 Blue Hill Avenue, Mattapan, MA, United States

    Enjoy an approximately 2-mile trip along the Neponset River Greenway on a metal and asphalt boardwalk and bike path. Let's see what we can find: Yellow-rumped Warblers, Gray Catbirds, and other migrant and resident species. Beginners, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ encouraged as well as more experienced birders. Loaner binoculars available.

  • Bring Back Boblinks: Bobolinks at Daniel Webster, Marshfield

    Marshfield - Daniel Webster MAS Wildlife Sanctuary 169 Winslow Cemetery Rd, Marshfield, MA, United States

    Part of our Bring Back Boblinks conservation series. Walk among open fields where we are likely to see and hear bobolinks, Our early start increases the likelihood that we will hear the bobolinks’ burbling morning song. Be prepared for muddy trails, depending on recent rainfall. Trails are mostly flat.

  • Bring Back Bobolinks: Norfolk Airport (New!)

    Norfolk - Norfolk Airport - River Rd entrance west from 60 River Rd, Norfolk, MA, United States

    Adding to our Bobolink conservation series. Observe and appreciate Bobolinks in breeding habitat! Bobolinks are nesting throughout the airport. We will walk the runways less than 2 miles walking total.  This area is all grasslands, around 400 acres.

  • Belle Isle Marsh Reservation – Winthrop Side

    Winthrop - Belle Isle March and Marine Ecology Park Banks Street, Winthrop, MA, United States

    Joint with Mass Audubon BNC. Join us to observe resident birds and spring migrants in a unique urban habitat that is a favorite for many bird species, including uncommon and rare flycatchers, swallows & warblers. Birders of all levels will enjoy this walk. The trails are generally flat and easy to walk. A water bottle,

  • Bring Back Bobolinks: Bobolink Walk at Appleton Farms Ipswich with the Grasslands Survey Team (New!)

    Ipswich - Appleton Farms paid parking, free for TTOR members 219 County Road, Ipswich, MA, United States

    New addition to our Bring Back Bobolinks conservation series. Rani date July 2 - check with leader in case of rain. Join new BBC members and Trustees Grassland Birds Monitoring Project volunteers Andy and Tina Haubert on their regular survey at this well known location for breeding and nesting Bobolinks.  We’ll observe field marks, song,

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