National Audubon Society

The National Audubon Society is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats, incorporated on January 5, 1905, in New York City as the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals, later renamed the National Audubon Society.[1][2][3] It traces its roots to 1886 when George Bird Grinnell founded an early Audubon Society to protest plume hunting and promote bird protection.[4][7] Named after 19th-century naturalist and artist John James Audubon, the organization has grown into one of the oldest and most effective bird conservation groups in the Western Hemisphere.[1][2][3]