The Purple Martins Story
Purple Martins are the largest swallows in the United States. We excitedly look forward to their arrival from South America every year in January, and are sad to see them leave in July. While here they thrill us with their incredible insect-catching aerial acrobatics, beautiful singing, and engaging personalities.
Sadly, their numbers have declined cumulatively about 40% over the last fifty years. They nest in North America, and in the Eastern U.S. rely almost exclusively on human provided houses.
Audubon Everglades began providing homes in Palm Beach County public spaces in 2017, and promoting the installation of homes amongst their members and the public through education outreach.
Please help us provide this essential housing in Palm Beach County for these birds that enjoy being around people as much as we enjoy being around them.
Your donation will stay in Palm Beach County, and be used to purchase and install Purple Martin houses.
GIVING TUESDAY
Donate today for the Purple Martins
Donate Today for Purple Martins
Your donation here will go to the Purple Martins
The Burrowing Owls StoryAudubon Everglades has been lending our support and our voice to Project Perch to help obtain better protection for the conservation of native Florida Burrowing Owls in southeast Florida. The Florida Burrowing Owl is classified as “threatened” by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The owls are imperiled because of loss of habitat and other manmade conditions and activities that jeopardize their existence. Their populations are dropping. We teamed with South Florida Audubon Society’s Project Perch in late 2016 to protect and nurture our Palm Beach County owls. Specifically, our goal is to locate these charismatic suburban owls and provide them with crush proof, flood zone artificial burrows systems in safe places. We partner with schools that have owls on their campus, encouraging students to become future owl guardians as they provide safe habitat for “their” owls. Another of our goals is community outreach to educate the public about these beneficial pint sized raptors. Owls make good neighbors, they are nature’s pest control. Your Giving Tuesday donation will assist the efforts of Audubon Everglades in support of Project Perch as it seeks to find, stabilize, and increase the population of Burrowing Owls in Palm Beach County. |
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Audubon Everglades and Giving TuesdayBy giving to Audubon Everglades, you can help to protect birds as we support Project Perch and the initiative to purchase Purple Martin houses. GIVING TUESDAY |
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