If you missed The Basics of Drawing Birds with Avery Whitlock, you might have failed to realize a hidden talent. Of course, if you're a current member (or renew today) you can go to the Members Only section and view her entire webinar. For now, we present some wonderful work by a few of

Please join us at our 2021 Virtual Winter MeetingAUDUBON CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT: From 19th Century Conservation Action to 21st Century Community ScienceWhat is the Audubon Christmas Bird Count? How and why did it begin, and how has it changed over its 120-year history? The CBC, like the Breeding Bird Survey, is one of the longest-running

The Murmuration is an open access crowdsourcing project designed to collect information to improve birding safety and accessibility at eBird hotspots in Massachusetts and to help make birding more inclusive. BBC members and other birders throughout the state are encouraged to contribute information on a Google Spreadsheet, called the Murmuration, that includes categories for

The Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary established the memorial bird garden area for long-time BBC member, former president and nonstop trip leader Ida Giriunas this past spring and continued to add to it this summer and fall.  They fenced it in to keep deer from eating everything, and plan to add more feeders in the

The BBC is pleased to announce its donation of $250 to support the Purple Martin Legacy Project at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. The Friends of the Parker River NWR initiated this worthy project to expand the Purple Martin colonies on the refuge. Decades ago, there were up to a dozen martin colonies

The BBC is proud to announce that we have renamed our Young Birder’s Scholarship as the Bill Drummond Young Birder’s Scholarship, in honor of one of our club’s most important and most inspiring leaders. Bill was a lifelong birder who learned to identify birds while growing up in Youngstown, Ohio. After his graduation from

A Snowy Owl Comes to Cape Ann was created by Kim Smith for young people during this at-home school time (and adult Snowy lovers, too!). Please share with kids you know who may be interested.

Updated April 26,2020: The BBC is sorry to announce that National Audubon has cancelled all 2020 summer camps at Hog Island in Maine, so that our two Young Birder Scholarship recipients, May Adams and Jackson Frost, will not be able to participate in the Coastal Maine Studies for Teens program in June. However, the

The Brookline Bird Club has almost 80 years of field trip reports that we’d like to add to eBird. As one of the oldest bird clubs in the United States, our archive of field trip data is a potentially rich source of information for researchers studying long term population trends, as well as helping

The date of July 17, 1918 was marked in the calendar of Bostonians as the fifth anniversary of the Brookline Bird Club. There was a birthday party at “Lake Walden” to celebrate the event, and attendees were encouraged to “Take Luncheon”! Sadly, the BBC’s birthday party ended up not being the major news from