Audubon at Home in Northern Virginia -
Preserving the Natural Heritage of a Dynamic Region

Are you planning on landscaping for wildlife at your home, school, or community property? If so, please help us to track the impact of your efforts. By observing the site before and after you make changes and recording which animals are visiting, you will contribute valuable information about the effects these small but important landscape changes have on our wildlife.

Pre-planting

• Homes
• Schools, Community Properties

Post-planting

• Homes
• Schools, Community Properties

Once you have filled in the sheet, please send it to us at: Audubon Society of Northern Virginia, 4022 Hummer Rd Annandale, VA 22003

The following species live in Northern Virginia at various times of year and can be found in developed areas. Some are year-round residents while others stay for a season or pass through the area on their way to other destinations. Regardless of when they are here or how long they stay, Northern Virginia provides critical habitat to sustain their populations. Some of these species need our help now, like eastern box turtles, while others may soon need help in light of continued development. Whether you live on a 10 acre property or have an apartment balcony, you can help many of these species thrive amid our bustling metropolis. To find out more about each species and what you can do to help, click on their names to open printable (pdf) fact sheets.

• Cooper’s Hawk
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Tree Swallow
• Carolina Wren
• Warbler species
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• American Goldfinch
• Little Brown Bat
• Eastern Box Turtle
• Frog species
• Snake species
• Monarch Butterfly
• Hummingbird Clearwing Moth
• Dragonfly and Damselfly species
• Native Bee species

All fact sheets

For fact sheets on additional bird species, please see the National Audubon Society’s list of Birds to Help.

Be sure to pick up a FREE copy of this useful resource, “The Nature of Change,” on regional conservation, gardening, native plants, wildlife, parks and much more! Visit us at a chapter sponsored activity or stop by the office. For a list of distribution sites click here.

Based on 11 years of data collected by citizen scientists for the annual Northern Virginia Bird Survey, this publication illustrates trends in a subset of bird species that breed in this region every year. Graphs for individual species show that some species, such as Brown-headed Cowbirds, appear to be increasing in numbers while others, like American Kestrels, are declining. To download a pdf of this 60 page book, click here.

Thanks to our many friends and members whose contributions made these publication possible.