Join us as Jorge Buening from the Welaka National Fish Hatchery talks to us about the work of the Hatchery, including its new Grasshopper Sparrow Program! There will be a follow-up field trip to the Hatchery on October 19, 2019. Note: Our new meeting location is the North Shores Improvement Association's building at 120 Meadow Avenue, which is about 1 ...
Speaker: Deidre (Dee) Omahen, Chair of First Coast Surfrider Foundation Come learn about the Surfrider Foundation, the history of plastic, the effects it has on our environment, and alternatives to plastic. This will be an interactive presentation; participants are invited to bring ideas and sample products they use in lieu of plastic. Meetings start with refreshments and networking at 6:30 ...
Join us at the lovely GTMNERR Education Center as Brett Moyer returns with one of our most popular programs, Birding 101, where Brett will discuss how to approach bird-watching and what identifying characteristics to look for. This program is directed to people who want to learn how to identify birds, but is also a good "refresher" for more experienced birders. ...
Speaker: Deborah Kainauskas, Duval Audubon Society Field Trips and Programs Chair Have you ever wondered what it is like to attend a bird festival? Deb will share her experiences and photographs from The Biggest Week in American Birding, the largest birding festival in the United States. Meetings start with refreshments and networking at 6:30 pm and programs at 7:00 pm ...
ABOUT THE SERIES This educational program series is free and open to the public - all nature lovers welcome! Social time at 6:30; presentation at 7:00. Speakers are selected on nature and environmental topics. Opportunity to buy a year's membership, picnic or boat trip tickets at each event. Or you can join online here: https://www.joinit.org/o/flagler-audubon-society https://www.meetup.com/Flagler-Audubon-Society/events/dfbshrybccbdb/
We all love nature, but not necessarily when it weighs about 200 pounds and wants to clean your BBQ grill for you. Bear Response Contractor, Kathy Connolly, will join OVAS for a program on Florida Black Bear. Kathy will give us tips and let us know… • how to keep bears out of trouble • how to react if you ...
The Birds of St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge with Don Morrow, author of CHECKLIST The Birds of St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge Thursday, January 16, 2020 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM All program meetings (except for the May Banquet) are at the King Building on the FSU campus (easy and free parking available) and take place on the 3 rd ...
Contact: Deborah Kainauskas (dkainauskas@gmail.com) Speaker: Gina Kent, Senior Conservation Scientist, Avian Research and Conservation Institute (ARCI) Swallow-tailed Kites are pressured by having a compact nesting cycle in the Southeast, where essential habitats are rapidly disappearing; a winter range now dominated by industrial agriculture; and over 10,000 miles of naturally-dangerous migrations further threatened by our impacts on the global environment. Learn ...
Researcher Siah St. Clair will talk about what has been learned from banding birds for 30 years at one site in Minnesota. He will discuss how bird populations and reproduction have change during this period when 110 bird species were banded. The meeting will be held on Thursday, January 23, at 7 p.m. at Kennedy Park, 899 Kennedy Blvd., Brooksville. ...
Moving Beyond Cardinals in Five Easy Steps: Introduction to Bird Identification with Jim Cox, Director of Stoddard Bird Lab, Tall Timbers Research Station Thursday, February 20, 2020 All program meetings (except for the May Banquet) are at the King Building on the FSU campus (easy and free parking available) and take place on the 3 rd Thursday of each month. ...