PA Audubon Council's Bird Town Pennsylvania Awards 30 Communities Mini-Grants For Bird-Related Projects

On October 12, Bird Town Pennsylvania, a program of the PA Audubon Council dedicated to engaging, educating and empowering residents of the Commonwealth through municipal outreach, announced the award of $1,000 mini-grants to 30 communities around the state to create bird-related projects.

As a result, Bird Town committees will have proposed projects such as bird friendly native plant demonstration gardens, educational bird blinds, installation of nesting boxes, and much more.  

Grants were awarded to--

-- Allegheny County: Forest Hills Borough, Fox Chapel Borough, Green Tree Borough, McCandless Township, Millvale Borough, Pine Township

-- Bucks County: Buckingham Township, Chalfont Borough, Middletown Township, New Britain Township, Richland Township, Warrington Township

-- Chester County: Kennett Township, Westtown Township

-- Cumberland County: Camp Hill Borough, Lemoyne Borough, Upper Allen Township

-- Delaware County: Bethel Township, Chester Heights Borough, Concord Township, Lansdowne Borough, Swarthmore Borough

-- Lehigh County: Allentown, City of Easton

-- Montgomery County: Abington Township, Upper Dublin Township, Upper Gwynedd Township, Upper Merion Township, Upper Providence Township, Whitman Township

Click Here for a list of the communities and a description of the projects.

Examples of a few of the projects: McCandless Township in Allegheny County will be producing a four part, hands-on speaker’s series focusing on native plants, local ecosystems and more, Upper Merion in Montgomery County will have a live streaming camera on an active nestbox for the public and school children, Kennett Township in Chester County will work with scouts, senior citizens and high school students to install a demonstration native plant rain garden.  

All of the projects, located in seven counties, will include interpretative educational signage.

Bird Town Pennsylvania operates under the Pennsylvania Audubon Council and works with municipalities to provide a framework for engagement and education centered around birds and their dependence on healthy habitats. 

The partnership with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources will prove to be a positive one for birds and people, increasing habitat with plants in the ground and engaging potentially thousands of residents who live in and around a Bird Town.   

Thanks to a DCNR Environmental Stewardship [Growing Greener] Fund grant awarded to Bird Town Pennsylvania in 2026, the program accepted applications from designated Bird Towns around the state, of which there are currently 113. 

For more information, visit the Bird Town Pennsylvania  or send email to pabirdtown@gmail.com. 

[Posted: October 13, 2026]  PA Environment Digest