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NH Audubon Nature Challenge

Join the NH Audubon Nature Challenge, June 22-28, 2025

We are excited to announce the first ever NH Audubon Nature Challenge, in which we welcome all in the Granite State to flex your skills as a scientist and help us inventory all animals, plants, and fungi on NH Audubon wildlife sanctuaries. 

Your help is needed no matter where you are in New Hampshire; there is at least one included sanctuary in every region of the state and three locations that meet ADA accessibility guidelines. Using the free iNaturalist and eBird platforms, which can be downloaded right onto your phone, this weeklong event aims to document the birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, amphibians, flowers, trees, mosses, mushrooms, and everything that either stops at our sanctuaries or calls them home!

How to Participate

Visit one of the NH Audubon properties listed below (or many of them), from June 22 through June 28 and help us create a complete living inventory of our lands.

Download the free iNaturalist and eBird apps to your phone.

RSVP for the free webinar. We’ll be reviewing eBird and iNaturalist as well as the included sanctuaries and some helpful tips for participating. Even if you cannot attend the live training, please register and you will be emailed the recording and all documentation about the project.

Sanctuary Properties Included in Challenge

(visit the sanctuaries page to explore details about these sanctuaries)

  • Abe Emerson Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary, Candia
  • Alice Bemis Thompson Wildlife Sanctuary (Thompson), Sandwich (ADA accessible)
  • Bear Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary, Hebron
  • Bellamy River Wildlife Sanctuary, Dover
  • Brookside Wildlife Sanctuary, South Hampton
  • Charles Henry & Mabel Lamborn Watts Wildlife Sanctuary (Watts), Effingham
  • Dahl Wildlife Sanctuary, Conway
  • Deering Wildlife Sanctuary, Deering
  • dePierrefeu-Willard Pond Wildlife Sanctuary (Willard Pond), Antrim/Hancock
  • Gertrude Keith Hoyt & Edward Eaton Hoyt, Jr. Wildlife Sanctuary (Hoyt), Madison
  • Ines and Frederick Yeatts Wildlife Sanctuary, Warren
  • Kensan Devan Wildlife Sanctuary (Meetinghouse Pond), Marlborough
  • Kwaks/Smith Sisters Wildlife Sanctuary (Follett’s Brook), Newmarket/Durham
  • Massabesic Center/Battery Point Wildlife Sanctuary, Auburn (ADA accessible)
  • McLane Center/Silk Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, Concord (ADA accessible)
  • Newfound Center/Paradise Point Wildlife Sanctuary (& Hebron Marsh), Hebron
  • Pondicherry Wildlife Sanctuary, Jefferson/Whitefield
  • Ponemah Bog Wildlife Sanctuary, Amherst
  • Proctor Wildlife Sanctuary, Center Harbor
  • Samuel Myron Chase Wildlife Sanctuary, Hopkinton
  • Scotland Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, Landaff
  • Smith Pond Bog Wildlife Sanctuary, Hopkinton
  • Stoney Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, Newbury

Photos from the top: Erin Burger uses iNaturalist to document a sanctuary plant, by Anita Fernandez; Anita Fernandez photographs a bird to document its presence on the Silk Farm Sanctuary in eBird, by Erin Burger.