Dear Friends of Tucson Bird Alliance,

Working in conservation, our staff and volunteers often have a front row seat to the damage done by the trifecta of climate change, drought, and development. This year has been particularly challenging, with harmful policy decisions magnifying each of these threats. It can take a heavy toll on the wellbeing of those of us in the trenches for birds and their habitats; certainly here in our precious Sky Island region. Yet, when you come across anyone on the Tucson Bird Alliance team, chances are, they’re smiling, enthusiastic, motivated, and eager to talk your ear off about their work, or something they recently learned about our local birds or ecosystems.

What’s our secret to staying optimistic?

Easy. It’s because we all know and see that we are making a tangible, immediate and long-term difference for birds, people, and our habitats, every single day. And we are able to do this work because people like you believe in us enough to support us with your time, talent, and treasure.

Together, we have planted thousands of saguaros, installed thousands of nestboxes, banded and tagged hundreds of birds to better understand them, and restored hundreds of acres of habitat in wild and urban spaces, and everywhere in between. We continue this work because we want the joy of birds to be part of our lives for generations to come.