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Northern Virginia Bird Alliance

Who We Are
Our Mission
Diversity and Inclusion
NVBA Staff and Board
Partners and Benefactors
Territory
The Audubon Name
Our Board's Decision
The Audubon Name
FAQs on the Audubon Name
What We Do
Classes and Events
Online Programs
Calendar
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Community Outreach
Volunteer with NVBA
Shop NVBA
The Potomac Flier
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How You Can Help
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Bird Walks
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Butterfly and Dragonfly Surveys
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Ongoing Local Efforts
Important Bird Areas
Volunteer
Wildlife Sanctuary Program
Wildlife Sanctuary Program
Sanctuary Species
Creating Wildlife Habitat
Native Plants for Wildlife
Wildlife Sanctuary Almanac
Plant This Not That
Human-made Hazards to Wildlife
Ambassador Tool Kit
Contact the Wildlife Sanctuary Program
Stretch Our Parks
Bird Safe NOVA
About Bird Safe NOVA
Lights Out for Birds
Contact
Join Us
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October 14, 2025
News
Jess Michetti
Fall 2025 Cape May Field Trip Recap

On Saturday, October 4, 22 birders awoke before sunrise, loaded into vans, and began our journey from Northern Virginia to Cape May, NJ, our eyes set on this faraway destination perfectly aligned with the Atlantic Flyway, one of the four “avian superhighways” in North America.

Fall 2025 Cape May Field Trip Recap
October 6, 2025
News
Jess Michetti
Help Us Write the Potomac Flier

Will you volunteer to help us write our monthly newsletter, the Potomac Flier?

Help Us Write the Potomac Flier
Jess Michetti
December 29, 2024
News

Wildlife Sanctuary Almanac: Sanctuary for Chickadees

Jess Michetti
December 29, 2024
News
Wildlife Sanctuary Almanac: Sanctuary for Chickadees

Chickadees need a yard full of native plants. How can that be? Chickadees eat seeds, so why do they need native plants?

Tagged: Wildlife Sanctuary Almanac, Native Plants, Doug Tallamy

Jess Michetti
December 29, 2024
News

Monday Mystery - December 30, 2024

Jess Michetti
December 29, 2024
News
Monday Mystery - December 30, 2024

Monday Nature Mystery continues! Read on to learn who correctly identified our last mystery.

Tagged: Monday Mystery, Facebook, Nature Trivia, Contest

Jess Michetti
December 16, 2024
News

Please DONATE TODAY to help northern Virginia's birds: A Note from Our President

Jess Michetti
December 16, 2024
News
Please DONATE TODAY to help northern Virginia's birds: A Note from Our President

Birds are under increasing threat from continued habitat loss and changing climate. Please help us protect them, other wildlife, and the natural habitat they need. 

Tagged: Annual Appeal

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
President's Corner

Board Notes

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
President's Corner
Board Notes

Meet Eileen Ellsworth, NVBA board member, secretary and chair of the fundraising committee.

Tagged: President's Corner, Conservation, Board Notes

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News

Apply Now for the 2025 Educator Scholarship

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News
Apply Now for the 2025 Educator Scholarship

Each year NVBA offers a full scholarship and transportation to “Sharing Nature: An Educator’s Week” at National Audubon Society's Hog Island Camp in Maine.

Tagged: Hog Island, Scholarships and Grants, Educators

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News

Swanfall

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News
Swanfall

The Tundra Swans are back in town! Between 200 and 400 of these magnificent birds are spending the winter in the Great Marsh of Belmont Bay and will leave in mid-March for their breeding grounds in the tundra of far northern Canada near the Arctic Ocean.  

Tagged: Tundra Swan, Migration

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News

Mini-grants for Invasive Removal Completed

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News
Mini-grants for Invasive Removal Completed

We selected applications with the most effective and reasonable plans to address threats from invasives and involving property containing habitat of value where invasive removal efforts would provide a visible demonstration of educational value to congregants, residents, and passersby. 

Tagged: Invasive Species Removal, Mini-grants, Wildlife Sanctuary Program, Faith Communities

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News

Protect The Wildlife You Attract

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News
Protect The Wildlife You Attract

Elements of the landscape may pose serious hazards to the very wildlife that we’ve attracted. Are we drawing them closer, only to have them harmed by an avoidable threat to their health and wellbeing?

Tagged: Habitat Restoration, Wildlife Sanctuary, Native Landscaping, Protect Wildlife

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News

A Bird’s Holiday Gift Guide

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News
A Bird’s Holiday Gift Guide

Although many people make charitable donations during the holidays instead of giving presents to adult friends and family, some of us still like to exchange physical presents. So, how about making some gift selections that will help the birds!

Tagged: Gift Guide, Holiday Shopping, Bird Feeders

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News

Observations from Meadowood: December 2024

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News
Observations from Meadowood: December 2024

Judy Gallagher is an NVBA board member and a regular surveyor of local wildlife who also captures photos of what she sees, in particular the less common species.

Tagged: Meadowood, Survey, Wildlife Survey, Observations from Meadowood

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News

Wildlife Sanctuary Almanac: Where Do They Go?

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News
Wildlife Sanctuary Almanac: Where Do They Go?

We know now that migration on earth accounts for the disappearance and reappearance of birds. But what about other creatures? 

Tagged: Wildlife Sanctuary Almanac, Native Plants, Migratory Birds, Blackpoll Warbler

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News

Monday Mystery - November 25, 2024

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News
Monday Mystery - November 25, 2024

Monday Nature Mystery continues! Read on to learn who correctly identified our last mystery.

Tagged: Monday Mystery, Facebook, Nature Trivia, Contest

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News

Upcoming Workshops and Classes

Jess Michetti
November 30, 2024
News
Upcoming Workshops and Classes

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

Tagged: Workshops and Classes

Jess Michetti
November 10, 2024
News

Join NVBA for a trip to Panama in March!

Jess Michetti
November 10, 2024
News
Join NVBA for a trip to Panama in March!

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

Tagged: International Birding, Panama

Jess Michetti
October 29, 2024
President's Corner

President's Corner

Jess Michetti
October 29, 2024
President's Corner
President's Corner

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.

Tagged: President's Corner

Jess Michetti
October 29, 2024
News

Glass and Light Pollution Threaten Birds

Jess Michetti
October 29, 2024
News
Glass and Light Pollution Threaten Birds

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.

Tagged: Window Collision, Bird-friendly Windows, Light Pollution, Lights Out, Bird Safe NOVA

Jess Michetti
October 29, 2024
News

Where There’s Wildfire, There’s Smoke: How Does it Affect Birds? Looking Back at the 2023 Canadian Wildfires

Jess Michetti
October 29, 2024
News
Where There’s Wildfire, There’s Smoke: How Does it Affect Birds? Looking Back at the 2023 Canadian Wildfires

We humans can find some refuge from the toxic particles by entering an office building, or staying at home, but what do birds do?

Tagged: Wildfires

Jess Michetti
October 29, 2024
News

“Keystone” Plants for Fall Gardens

Jess Michetti
October 29, 2024
News
“Keystone” Plants for Fall Gardens

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

Tagged: Plant Nova Natives, Keystone Plants, Native Gardening, Native Landscaping

Jess Michetti
October 29, 2024
News

Two Entangled Bald Eagles Fell from the Sky

Jess Michetti
October 29, 2024
News
Two Entangled Bald Eagles Fell from the Sky

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.

Tagged: Bald Eagles

Jess Michetti
October 29, 2024
News

Come help plant our generous wild plant donation from Earth Sangha!

Jess Michetti
October 29, 2024
News
Come help plant our generous wild plant donation from Earth Sangha!

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!

Tagged: Volunteer, Native Plants, Stretch Our Parks

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