Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy

Many grassland birds, including Northern Bobwhites, Grasshopper Sparrows, Bobolinks, Eastern Meadowlarks, and Dickcissels, have experienced significant declines in recent years due to loss of habitat and changing agricultural practices, especially here in Loudoun County. 

What You Can Do: If you live in a community where your HOA has a meadow area or if you are a large, or even moderate, landowner and don’t need your meadows for pasture or hay, please hold off on cutting them until later in the summer. 

By doing this you will give the numerous birds that nest in tall grass an opportunity to nest and raise their young. Every year the young of these species are killed by unnecessary mowing. You don’t have to mow all that, especially every week. For more information on the native grasslands of Loudoun and the birds that you can help save, click here.

Thanks for checking out our blog!  As we get blogging, we’ll be posting a variety of things about the wildlife and habitats around Loudoun County, Virginia.  We’ll also include field trip reports and local sightings, action alerts for speaking out to preserve and protect local wildlife habitat, special event announcements, tips on cool places to visit around Loudoun and more.

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