Welcome Message

Audubon is honored to partner with you on Fall Flights to conserve priority waterfowl habitats in Canada. Not only waterfowl benefit from these protected areas, but also an array of shorebirds, waterbirds, grassland birds, and songbirds that depend on diverse ecosystems that include wetlands surrounded by grasslands, parklands, or boreal forests. 

Through Audubon’s Migratory Bird Initiative, we provide spatial data for 456 species of migratory birds that spend part of their lives in the United States and Canada. Birds tell us about the health of our environment, and by studying the best-available migration data found in the Bird Migration Explorer we can see when and where we need to focus our conservation efforts. Migratory birds connect us across the entire hemisphere and by working together across borders we can secure their future.

We invite you to utilize the Bird Migration Explorer as a resource to guide species selection and full annual cycle conservation actions for them in your State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP). The Bird Migration Explorer can help you highlight birds that breed in Canada and migrate through or to your state as well as those that nest locally and migrate south. To bolster these efforts, we encourage you to support Fall Flights and Southern Wings and to include these initiatives in your SWAPs. 

A heartfelt thanks to all of you in state wildlife agencies. Your management activities and outreach nurture landscapes where people, birds, and wildlife can thrive together. You inspire communities to connect with nature and each other, creating a brighter, more connected world for us all. 

For this, and so much more, I thank you.



Marshall Johnson

Fall Flights Advisory Committee Member

Chief Conservation Officer, National Audubon Society