Our campus is home to many, many species of birds. We’re using our bird population to measure our success in Rewilding-with more native plants comes native insects, with more insects more birds to feast. Thanks to help from amazing interns from the Sustainability Solutions Lab, we’ve been censusing birds on campus since 2022. What are we finding? Meet the Chirps of Middlebury-

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Thanks to Olivia Maloney ’26, Charles Harder ’25, Charlie Deichman-Caswell ’24, and for starting everything off Annika Vikstrom ’25. Also, being a plant person, none of this would be possible without Monica Przyperhart. Middkids-interested in learning more? There’s a class! https://catalog.middlebury.edu/courses/view/course-BIOL0205