In this code-red crisis, birds urgently need all the help they can get

Your first annual gift will be matched, up to $5,000, for the birds we love. [National Audubon Society]( [Tufted Puffins.]( Tufted Puffins. [It’s a code-red crisis for birds. They need you now.]( [MATCH CHALLENGE]( Your First Annual Gift Matched, Up To $5,000 --------------------------------------------------------------- Match Challenge Deadline Approaching [Donate Now]( The Tufted Puffin’s bright orange beak, long golden plumes, and black and white mask have earned them the name "clown of the sea." But the threats facing these stocky seabirds are no joke: Rising ocean temperatures mean they are increasingly struggling to find the food they need to survive. From October 2016 through January 2017, a mass die-off struck thousands of birds. And these once-rare mortality events are now happening with increasing frequency. In this code-red crisis, birds urgently need all the help they can get. Audubon will do our utmost to protect them—but we can’t do it without you. [Will you commit to their protection with an annual donation today? We’re counting on bird lovers like you to join together right away while your first gift will be matched, up to $5,000, thanks to a group of generous donors. Your annual sustaining gift will renew automatically each year, giving birds protection they can depend on.]( If seabirds are in trouble, so are we: Seabird numbers are in steep decline worldwide, down 70% since 1950. Research shows that most North American birds are threatened with increasing risk of extinction from climate change. We’ve lost 3 billion birds in the span of a human lifetime. In 1973, National Audubon Society started Project Puffin, now known as Audubon’s Seabird Institute, in an effort to learn how to restore puffins to historic nesting islands in the Gulf of Maine. Today, thousands of Atlantic Puffins—and many other seabird species—nest on several islands off the coast of Maine every year. With the support of bird lovers like you, we continue this important work providing research data, seabird restoration best practices, and more to other seabird researchers around the world. We couldn’t protect birds without people like you—people who care about them and are ready to help. And right now, birds need you more than ever. [Please, be the friend birds need today: We’re counting on dedicated bird lovers to join us with an annual recurring donation right away while your first gift will be matched, up to $5,000, to protect birds like the Tufted Puffin.]( Sincerely, National Audubon Society [Donate]( Photo: Lola Knox/Audubon Photography Awards [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( National Audubon Society 225 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014 USA [(844) 428-3826](#) [audubon.org]( © 2023 National Audubon Society, Inc. [Pause fundraising emails for two weeks]( [Update your email address or unsubscribe](