Evergreen Audubon & Nature Center
Local chapter of the National Audubon Society
Evergreen Audubon & Nature Center is proud to share that Amelie Anderson was awarded the 2026 American Birding Association (ABA) Young Birder of the Year award! Amelie has been an active Evergreen Audubon member since 2025, and is the Eagle Scout who installed the Native Plant Garden in the front of Evergreen Nature Center. Amelie[…]
Buy your tickets now! You won’t want to miss this special event with live raptors visiting during the evening! Your ticket includes heavy appetizers, 2 drink tickets (beer & wine), soft drinks, and dessert, plus the opportunity to bid on amazing auction items to support the Evergreen Audubon & Nature Center. Don’t delay!
In the pre-dawn light at Evergreen Lake on Sunday the House Finches, Red-winged Blackbirds, Common Grackles, and American Robins were singing up a storm, while a Great Horned Owl was hooting occasionally from up on the hill above the golf course.
As with prior springs, this was a productive outing visiting ponds and wetlands in Weld County, and we ended up with 58 species.
Spring has always been variable here in Colorado’s Front Range, and as a result, predicting where the birds will be is always a bit of a guessing game. Well, eleven Evergreen Audubon guessed well and showed up bright and early on Saturday March 28 to bird Barr Lake at Barr Lake State Park, and they[…]
written by Jamie Simo In 2019, the U.S. North American Bird Conservation Initiative Committee released a bombshell report announcing that, since 1970, the U.S. has lost almost 3 billion birds. Last year, its updated report revealed that bird populations are continuing to decline. Apart from climate change and habitat loss, the number one cause of[…]
Instead of our puffiest jackets, hand warmers and wool hats, we traded those in for sun hats, dark glasses and sunscreen with our warmest weather recorded for the annual Evergreen Audubon Nestbox sale in many years…and we’ve been doing this for a long, long time! Perhaps it was the weather but we topped our numbers[…]
“In my lifetime, North America has lost more than 3 billion birds. This is a catastrophe playing out on a planetary scale. We are reaching a tipping point for birds, magnified by the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change. But if we act now—in this critical decade—we can reverse this trend.”– Dr. Elizabeth[…]
