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  • A small gray bird perches in a tree
    Extending Warm Welcomes

    This month we welcome our newest NestWatch Chapter, Tucson Audubon Society.

  • Four blue eggs lie in a nest of dried grass.
    Exceedingly Rare Finds

    Already, we have two Eastern Bluebird nests with eggs reported for January!

  • Clockwise from upper left: a garden in front of a house with several native wildflowers; a grassy nest on top of a mossy green nest inside of a wooden nest box; a Purple Martin perched on top of a structure with its wings outstretched; a Red-tailed Hawk perched at it's twiggy nest that has been built on an industrial structure.
    eNews October 2025

    – Fall Gardening for Spring Nesting
    – How to Report Nest Takeovers by Other Birds
    – New Chapter in NYC!
    – Bulk Upload Update

  • four images clockwise from upper left: a screenshot of the NestWatch homepage with the words
    eNews October 2024

    -New Website Launched
    -New Chapter in Ecuador
    -Do Birds Use “Scarecrows”
    -A First For Us

  • Clockwise from upper left: Two kestrels perched atop a wooden nest box; Three blue eggs in a nest made from twigs of varying sizes. The nest has plastic interwoven into the nest cup; An adult flycatcher with food in its beak perched at the entrance of a wooden nest box ; and a darkened screenshot of the NestWatch website with a large video
    eNews May 2026

    – New Study Explores American Kestrel Decline
    – Reminder to Document Plastics in Nests
    – Watch: An Overview of NestWatch
    – New NestWatch Chapters

  • Clockwise from upper left: a sepia-toned photograph of four light-colored eggs in a nest; a chickadee pulling nesting material out of a suet cage that contained straw and plant fibers; a young Black-billed Magpie sitting in the grass on the edge of a sidewalk; an adult male bluebird feeding a fledgling on a grassy lawn.
    eNews May 2025

    – Major Milestone Completed
    – New Research Explains Pet Fur Problems
    – Two New NestWatch Chapters!
    – Found a Baby Bird?

  • Four images, clockwise from upper left: A Red-eyed Vireo feeding its nest of young amount bright green leaves, with the text 'the hidden world of nests and eggs' overlaid on top of the image; a eurasian bittern chick sitting on the ground between two large white eggs in the reeds of a marshy area; an american kestrel perched at the entrance of a wooden nest box; four white eggs sitting in a grassy nest that's lined with several downy feathers.
    eNews March 2026

    – The Hidden World of Nests and Eggs
    – Join Us for Nest Trivia
    – New NestWatch Chapter
    – Data Win

  • Four images clockwise from upper left: the cover images for the NestWatch Digest deaturing three Wilson's Plover eggs on a beach with a green banner containing the words
    eNews March 2025

    – Our Annual Report is Here
    – Nesting Cycle Webinar
    – New Chapter in Ecuador
    – Got Nest Box Plans?

  • four images: the top left is a female wood duck perched in the entrance hole of a nest box, the top riht is two fuzzy why kestrel chicks sitting in wood shavings inside a nest box, the bottom left is a chickadee perched on top of a vertical pipe looking in, and the bottom right is of two people - one is handing a plaque to the other.
    eNews March 2024

    -Our Annual Report is Here
    -AKP Data Migration Complete
    -What’s This Bird Doing?
    -NestWatcher Wins Conservation Award