Organizations with like-minded missions.
Birdathon Beneficiaries
This Birdathon helps Clearwater Audubon continue to support outdoor education, citizen science and habitat conservation, and encourages people to plant native plants to foster native wildlife. Each year, local conservation projects or organizations are chosen to be beneficiaries. Read more about the 2024 recipients below.
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Audubon Florida’s Coastal Islands Sanctuaries
Audubon Florida’s Coastal Islands Sanctuaries (FCIS), established in 1934, is a leader in conservation, monitoring, and management of colonial waterbirds and their nesting islands in the Tampa Bay region. The mission of the FCIS is the protection of the great colonial waterbird populations of the Florida coast, and the natural systems that support them. To accomplish this goal, Audubon biologists work with partner organizations to reduce human disturbance, conduct research, manage nesting habitat, conduct community outreach and advocacy, reduce the threat posed by entanglement in fishing line, and monitor nesting at over 50 island colonies across southwest Florida.
FCIS’s work directly benefits thousands of nesting birds from over 25 species of wadingbirds, shorebirds, and seabirds. Eight of these species are listed as state or federally threatened, including Roseate Spoonbills, Reddish Egrets, Wood Storks, and American Oystercatchers. Donations to FCIS will support our work conserving populations of these iconic birds in Tampa Bay for years to come.
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Florida Avian Conservation (FAC)
Florida Avian Conservation (FAC) is a local organization focused on migratory bird research and bird education in west central Florida. The organization was founded in 2021 to support migratory songbird research through a 13 year bird banding project now located on Caladesi Island State Park. In addition to the research, the organization conducts public bird banding demonstrations every spring and fall to educate the public about the importance of research for the conservation of migratory songbirds. Other education projects include collaborating with the Florida Ornithological Society and local Audubon chapters to create/expand the new Florida Young Birders Club.
Donations will support the on-going bird banding research and bird education efforts with the Florida Young Birders Club
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