Join NVBA in Panama in March!
Panama boasts the highest diversity of bird species in Central America. Find out how to join us for this special trip.
Photo: Red-legged Honeycreeper, courtesy of Holbrook Travel
Join Us for a Class or Workshop
We have some great events coming up, both in person and online.
Photo: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Pamela Brown/Audubon Photography Awards
Glass and Light Pollution Threaten Birds
Learn how you can help.
Photo: The glass windows of the Martha Washington Library reflect trees and vegetation, Glenda Booth
“Keystone” Plants for Fall Gardens
Some natives are blooming for the first time this fall, adding color and wildlife value to gardens
Photo: Keystone plants, Plant NoVA Natives
Life at the Landfill: So Much More than Trash
Grassland life is blossoming at the I-95 landfill in Lorton
Photo: No-mow area at the landfill, Glenda C. Booth
The American Kestrel
Efforts to understand the migration patterns of this robin-sized falcon offer hope for declining populations
Photo: American Kestrel, Mick Thompson/Audubon Photography Awards
Conserving and Enjoying Nature
Northern Virginia Bird Alliance is a chapter of the National Audubon Society.
Our mission is to engage all Northern Virginia communities in enjoying, conserving, and restoring nature for the benefit of birds, other wildlife, and people. We advance our mission through educational programs, citizen science, conservation initiatives, and advocacy initiatives. We envision a world where people, wildlife, and their habitats thrive.
News
The latest stories from NVBA. Looking for a particular topic? Try searching our site. We have hundreds of articles full of great information about everything from birds to advocacy to native plants.
Enrollment is open for NVBA’s March 12-22 trip to Panama, Birding the Central and Darien Regions!
NVBA has launched a campaign to prevent bird deaths, citing a National Audubon Society study that found a 30 percent drop in bird populations in North America since 1970, which means more than one in four birds or three billion birds have been lost since then.
We humans can find some refuge from the toxic particles by entering an office building, or staying at home, but what do birds do?
It’s fall, and most healthy plants are looking rather spent as they go dormant for the winter. But some natives are happily blooming away for the first time this growing season, catching your eye with their intense colors and soothing away year-end gardening blues
When Janet Challender was walking from the Hollin Hall Senior Center to her car around 2 p.m. on October 15, as she rounded the corner, suddenly, out of the sky, two bald eagles intertwined with each other “crashed into the parking lot like a meteor,” she said.
Earth Sangha, a key partner in the Stretch Our Parks habitat restoration corridor, made a sizable donation of wild plants to the project and we need to get these youngsters in the ground!
Judy Gallagher is an ASNV board member and a regular surveyor of local wildlife who also captures photos of what she sees, in particular the less common species.
Fall-fruiting native shrubs and trees not only provide nutritious, fatty berries for birds, but also display beautiful fall color. That’s not for our benefit: what’s called foliar fruit flagging is the way the plants signal to birds that fruits are ripe and ready for plucking—just in time for migration.
Monday Nature Mystery continues! Read on to learn who correctly identified our last mystery.
American Kestrels are often seen perching on utility wires alongside farm fields, or hovering with rapid wingbeats, until dropping to snatch prey from the ground or mid-air. This robin-sized falcon is speedy and fun to watch.
As multi-ton garbage trucks roll in and out 24 hours a day to unload the never-ending detritus of modern life and mammoth forklifts rumble over the I-95 landfill at Lorton, just over the hill, a very different kind of life abounds.
Find more stories on our News page.
Upcoming Classes and Events
We have resumed some in-person bird walks and are holding our classes and events both in person and online. You can also watch recordings of past virtual events on our Online Programs page.