Enrollment is open for NVBA’s March 12-22 trip to Panama, Birding the Central and Darien Regions!

NVBA strengthened its role as a regional conservation leader in October, organizing an event to bring together organizations and other entities involved in conservation in northern Virginia.

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.

Join us for a class, workshop or event! Here are some of our upcoming offerings.

As the autumn days shorten, we welcome our returning winter residents and are treated to another chance to see our visiting migrants as they head south. And I like this time of year because it is when our organization looks back at our activities during the last fiscal year and gears up for the coming year.

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.

Native vines can be terrific additions to your landscape. The most popular one, Coral Honeysuckle, is a hummingbird magnet! Unlike the non-native invasive vines that we see everywhere killing trees, our native vines seldom hurt them.