Let’s get outdoors during school break! Will we find frogs, flowers, newly-returned birds?
After a time outside, we will look at some of our findings up close and look for birds at our feeders. A great way to celebrate Earth Day!
Sign up at birdsofvermont.org/explore-spri...
Would you like to carve a tiny pumpkin with us? Sign up for this beginner-friendly workshop!
Saturday, April 18, 9:30 - 3:30, Birds of Vermont Museum (Huntington, VT).
Dave Tuttle teaching! Bring your lunch, tools if you have them. Sign up at birdsofvermont.org/wee-pumpkin-...
#WoodCarving
Come to the Volunteer Appreciation Potluck on Tuesday April 14th from 5-7 pm, at the Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington, Vermont.
This is for all Museum volunteers, past, present and future!
RSVPs appreciated (birdsofvermont.org/volunteer-po...)
#BringAFriend #Community #Volunteering
A clear review of staying in Gale's Retreat! sectionhiker.com/vermont-huts...
You can book a night or a weekend too! Great for birding... just saying. Y'know, if you're into that kinda thing, like we are...
#glamping (kinda) #birding (always)
Come birding with us!
Our March Bird Walk is Saturday the 28th at 8:00 am. What will we find? Early returning migrants? Steadfast feathered friends? Mud? Tracks of something else? Community?
Let's find out. birdsofvermont.org/event/mar-20...
#BirdWalk #VermontBirds #Friends
Photo by E. Talmage
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Light brown and white bird with yellow throat and black mask and collar. Text reads: Horned Lark. Eremophila alpestris© Sarah Sharp/ Macaulay Library.
Photos of taxidermy birds side by side 2 sets. One Horned Lark from 1966 with white stomach and 1904 with gray stomach. One Red-headed Woodpecker from 1982 with a white stomach and from 1901 with a gray stomach. Text reads: Soot from coal turned many birds gray in the 1900s with arrows to gray birds. Better air quality by the 1960s brought their natural colors back with arrows to whiter birds. Specimen photos by Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay.
Museum drawers quietly hold a record of pollution. Early 1900s bird specimens from the Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History were gray with soot—by the 1980s, their feathers significantly whiter. Full story: www.allaboutbirds.org/news/from-mu...
May we remind you of our Deadline for Art? Yes!
It's March 23, just before midnight.
The entire Call to Artists with how to submit details is at birdsofvermont.org/call-to-arti...
#MakeArt #Interactions #history #ornithology #ConservationArt #VermontArtists
Not all of our visitors make appointments! But you can (at this weirdly long link)!
calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0...
Or call us at +1 802 434-2167.
#MuseumVisitors #BirdsofVermont
While there’s plenty of bad news in the meticulous recounting of how humans are affecting every aspect of nature, I love how the report begins by highlighting Bright Spots in Nature!
Good news like this builds the efficacy that inspires us to act by showing us that solutions ARE possible.
A playful poster graphic featuring flat illustrations of national postal services around the world that use bird logos. From March 2022
Postal services around the world that use birds as logos. One of my favorite poster graphics I've made! 🐦✉️
... stolen from their families. We stand with Minnesota. And Maine. And others.
For more about how this administration’s actions and policies harm bird populations and the environment, please visit our blog for an essay and links to further resources: birdsofvermont.org/2025/10/31/c...
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We cannot have healthy ecosystems (and places for birds) without healthy communities, social justice, and economic justice to support, protect, and nourish each other and those ecosystems. We need communities where people are not being brutalized, assaulted, killed, nor ...
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As we don’t live in a vacuum, and we would be remiss if we didn’t also talk about how our human communities are surviving under the coldheartedness that is ICE.
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Four people in winter clothes walking toward the photographer on a bright sunny day. They’re walking through a small overgrown, snow-covered meadow. Behind them are bare deciduous trees, and a further row of evergreens.
Three people in winter clothes stand on snow, facing away from the photographer, at the base of many small slender trees in a forest. They are in shade. Some distance in front of them is a hillside in sunlight that is partially visible through bare branches.
Three people in winter clothing smile at the photographer. One smile is obvious; the other two are covered by masks. One person is wearing fogged-up glasses. They are outside in the winter with bare-branched trees and evergreens behind them.
This morning, as the temps climbed to -8F, we went out to search for birds. The sun came out and we found 5 species. Points if you can guess all 5!
We spent some time talking about how the birds survive the cold temperatures, snow, and ice. (More about that on our IG/FB)
#BirdWalk #Conservation
Join us Saturday January 24th for the first Bird Monitoring Walk of 2026! Might be a tad chilly at 8 am; dress warmly and in layers!
Sign up at birdsofvermont.org/jan-2026-bir...
#birdwalk #countbirds #outdoors #birdsofvermont
#CallToArtists : Wings • Waters • Ways
Explore the interwoven history of humans, birds, and waterways in your art. The Birds of Vermont Museum invites art submissions that dive and soar with the ways of wings and waters for our 2026 community show. Details: birdsofvermont.org/call-to-arti...
Today, only a handful of artists in Barre still carve granite by hand.
One of them is Heather Milne Ritchie, who's keeping the tradition alive — and bringing more women into the craft.
Are you excited for #AOS26 in Amherst, Mass, this August? We are! Submit your symposia, roundtable, and workshop proposals by **1/31/26**. meeting.americanornithology.org/news-announc...
A small gray and white Piping Plover (with orange legs and a black bill) in winter plumage along the water’s edge, looking at photographer taking the photograph. The NYC Plover Project logo is in lower right of the image, with an urgent call to action against Trump’s proposed rule changes at the top in red and black block letters.
The Trump Administration is looking to decimate the Endangered Species Act. Proposed changes would:
- LIMIT new species from being listed
- REMOVE protections for federally-threatened species like Piping Plovers
- REDUCE critical habitat protections
You're never gonna believe this, but we're out of archaeologists again.
We have matched ~650 groups with archaeologists this semester! I am so grateful to the 196 Archaeologist volunteers!
We have 60 unmatched groups rn
Know archaeologists who could do a session? Send them to SkypeAScientist.com
Four students investigate the brushy edge of a small pond in spring. They are squatting and bending over, peering at something in the water, which is crowded with emergent plants.
A young student using a clipboard and worksheet to investigate the exhibits at the Birds of Vermont Museum.
Three students are in the Viewing Window corner of the Birds of Vermont Museum. One uses binoculars while another points outside to something of interest.
Six pre-schoolers and two adults explore a fern-rich trail in spring at the museum. Newly leaved trees are behind them, and one is in blossom.
We are grateful for the amazing educators and school groups who visit us year-round. Your curiosity and love of learning inspire everything we do—and we’re so glad to be a part of it.
#BirdsofVermontMuseum #MonthOfGratitude #Education #ThankYouTeachers #FieldTrips
A black-and-white drawing of a Black-capped Chickadee perched on a slender gray twig. The drawing is surrounded by a green circle with white letters that read Birds of Vermont Museum Huntington, VT. The bird is from a pen-and-ink illustration by Adelaide Tyrol.
A black-and-white ink drawing of a Black-capped Chickadee flying while carrying a twig. The drawing is superimposed over a green silhouette of the state of Vermont on a light blue background. Words on the left read Small Yet Mighty; on the right, Birds of Vermont Museum. Illustration by Kir Talmage.
An black-and-white ink drawing of a Black-capped Chickadee holding up a sign that says Vote! while perched on a small twig with a leaf. The drawing is surrounded by a green circle that reads Birds Can't Vote But You Can! Illustration by Kir Talmage from an idea by Allison Gergely.
Sticker-logo star, you ask?
Well...
Art by Adelaide Tyrol (the one in profile) and Kir Talmage (metasilk.bsky.social) (small yet mighty & birds can't vote)
Two chickadees perch cheekily on a platform feeder full of black oil sunflower seeds. Photo by K. Talmage and used with permission.
A chickadee removing bits of wood from a broken-off tree branch pauses to look at the camera. Photo by Erin Talmage and used with permission.
A chickadee perched on a black metal arch looks at the camera. Photo by M. Barnes and used with permission.
A lifelike, detailed woodcarving of a Black-capped Chickadee perched on a bit of rough tree bark. . Carved by Bob Spear.
Lets honor our very social, industrious, undeniably adorable, year-round favorite feathered friend and BOVM sticker-logo star: the Black-capped Chickadee: a delight and an inspiration
#BirdsofVermontMuseum #MonthOfGratitude #BlackCappedChickadee #GoBirding #PoecileAtricapillus #Birds #BackyardBird
Many people sit around tables strewn with carving tools and woodcarvings in progress. Some are intent on their work, while others smile and talk together. Behind them are workshop walls with waterfowl decoys and more carving tools.
Two people (busy carving) are blurred but visible behind a rack of woodcarving gouges.
Carved as relief into a branch, a mustached man's face smiles.
Two unfinished nuthatches (carved in wood) sit on a table behind a carving glove and thumb protector, and in front of a finished (carved and painted) nuthatch and cups of coffee.
Thank you to the Green Mountain Wood Carvers who make this place a hub for learning and making. Your craft and your company inspire, delight, teach …and expand our collection!
Have you taken one of their workshops yet?
#BirdsofVermontMuseum #MonthOfGratitude #Woodcarving #GreenMountainWoodcarvers
A round ceramic dish on a stand, showing a Red-bellied Woodpecker. The ceramic is a carved style, in black, white and red. Artist: S. Morrison.
A watercolor painting of a nest with two eggs and many viney/ferny leaves around. Artist: L. DiSante
A photograph of a male Ruby-throated hummingbird superimposed over texts of many numerical facts about the species. Artists: K. Sultze and J. Hyde
A complex quilt of many bright colors and fabric patterns, showing a Blackburnian Warbler in a tropical forest canopy. Artist: M. Lower
Thank you to all more than 250 creatives who have exhibited in our art shows. From our first named show in 2013 to this year’s, may all of you be filled with tremendous creativity and success!
Art share with permission. More images & artist names, on our Instagram.
#MonthOfGratitude #BirdsInArt
I just think it's neat that the Museum has 2222 checklists as of today!
#eBird #GoBirding #BirdWithFriends #birds
A flyer advertising "Tree ID for Birders and Friends", showing a hill in fall foliage, with other deciduous trees in the foreground (also in foliage colors). The link to the event https://birdsofvermont.org/event/tree-identification-for-birders-and-friends/ is written on the page, and four small images (leaves, sapsucker holes in bark, a QR code, and a Rose-breasted Grosbeak in a tree) are aligned along the bottom.
Want to move past, “that bird, up there, in the tree, the greenish one, next to the tall one”?
Join us on a tree ID walk October 19, 1:00 pm, Birds of Vermont Museum.
Details & registration at birdsofvermont.org/event/tree-i...
#TreeId #ForestWalk #TreeIDForBirders #SundayWalk #FallFoliage
A canva graphic that says “how it works” “Step 1: Go to SkypeAScientist.com Step 2: Click “Sign Up” then “Educator Sign Up Form” Step 3: Tell us about your class Step 4: Get matched with a scientist Step 5: Connect to talk about your needs Step 6: Enrich your students’ understanding of science”
Alright I have something useful for you to do.
Think of any teachers and librarians you know. Do they know about Skype a scientist? Our program matches classrooms & other groups w/scientists for virtual Q&As. It’s free!
They can sign up here!
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
#Edusky #StemED
