The Climate Listening Project embarked to Belize to film a short documentary for the Audubon Society! We’re traveling with Kim Brand of Forsyth Audubon to capture the story about the impact of climate change on our beloved birds, particularly the Wood Thrush.
Forsyth Audubon has a special connection to a climate-endangered bird, the Wood Thrush.
Members love this bird for its flute-like, ethereal song and grieve the bird’s disappearance from many places within our chapter territory. Inspired to help our most imperiled breeding bird well beyond its breeding grounds in North Carolina, in 2014 the chapter partnered with Audubon’s International Alliances Program, the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, and Audubon North Carolina to put GPS tags on 22 Wood Thrushes in our chapter territory. In 2015, chapter members helped a Smithsonian technician capture Wood Thrushes in the study areas and succeeded in recovering a GPS tag that showed the bird went to Belize, which was a happy coincidence since the chapter had already sent a team to work with Belize Audubon and support their fledgling bird conservation program in early 2014. This story brings to life the interconnected network of birds and people we need to make a real difference for our migratory birds.