WELCOME TO SOUTH FLORIDA AUDUBON SOCIETY
2010 Florida Audubon Society's Chapter of the Year
South Florida Audubon Society, based in Broward County, fosters conservation through local, regional, national, and global environmental advocacy and activities throughout South Florida with an emphasis on birds and other wildlife and their habitats. This Home page highlights upcoming birding and special events, action alerts, and news of interest for the region which includes Broward, Martin, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Indian River Counties in the Greater Everglades Ecosystem.
Click on Advocacy to access pages on Wildlife and Protected Species, Land Conservation and Public Land Management, Water for the Environment, Growth Management and Transportation, and Global Climate Change and Energy. Click here to visit the Conservation Blog for updated alerts and news. Click on Birding to access pages on how to bird and where to bird. Click on Photos to see photos of birds feeding, fighting, flying, mating, and nesting, as well as young birds learning. Click on Join to access the membership form and click on Archives to see our accomplishments and former status as Broward County Audubon Society. The Index-Links page provides easy access to areas of this educational website. You can also visit South Florida Audubon Society on Facebook.
BP Oil Spill Remembrance
Seven days of action were created for remembering the 4/20/2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. Audubon's oil and birds don't mix campaign featured actions such as:
- Heal the Gulf: Enact the RESTORE Act
- Pass the Torch: Take a kid birding
- Remember the blowout: Tell your story
- Make some noise: Share with 3 friends
- Take a Giant Step: Leave the car home
- Make a Switch: Install 2 Energy Star light bulbs
- Protect the Future: Speak up against reckless arctic drilling
Click here for details.
New CEO
The Everglades Foundation has a new Chief Executive Officer: Eric Eikenberg. He replaces Kirk Fordham who is moving with his family out of state. The growth seen under the former CEO is expected to continue.
Pythons in Florida
The pythons in Florida are now stealing bird eggs directly from their nests.
Habitat Oases Project
The founder of Habitat Oases Project, John Ogden, died recently. Click here for the Miami Herald article detailing his accomplishments.
Habitat Oases Project is a survey tracking system monitoring feeding habits of neotropical songbirds as they migrate along the Atlantic Flyway. This project has expanded from Miami-Dade to Broward County with partners of South Florida Audubon Society and Broward County Naturescape. Audubon of Connecticut and Audubon's TogetherGreen initiative along with teams of volunteers survey eight transects throughout the county including Important Birding Area at Hugh Taylor Birch State Park.
National Audubon adopted the project and it now includes the entire Atlantic Flyway. Dr. Michelle Frankel, Deputy Director of Development/Conservation and Biologist with Audubon Connecticut leads the project and was a colleague of John Ogden.
Bird-friendly Development
The Department of the Interior has released federal guidelines to minimize bird and wildlife impacts from land-based wind development in the US. Help support the effort. Click here for the press release and click here for a letter to this department regarding implementation.
Greater Everglades
Help protect public lands in the Greater Everglades for wildlife. Review the Hunting Management Plan for the Big Cypress National Preserve and comment (click here).
Broward Water Partnership
A number of resources and rebates have been developed to educate citizens and promote water conservation. Click here for information on the initial launch of the rebate program in Broward County. For rebates up to $100 click here. For the description of a new pre-rinse water value, Click here and for the latest news release about the expansion of rebates, click here .
View videos on water conservation and the rebates available. The program spokesperson is John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt who was featured at the Butterfly Festival held in Coconut Creek. Click here to access information and link to you tube videos on how to conserve.
Florida Legislation
Audubon Florida (formerly known as Audubon of Florida) tracks legislation that impacts the environment. They will need your help to support bills that positively impact the environment and help prevent bills that negatively impact the environment. Click here for upcoming legislation and the potential impact of each.
Florida Audubon News
To review the recent Florida Advocate, click here. For Florida Audubon - Restore, click here. For Florida Audubon News Blog click here.
National Audubon News
The National Audubon Society provides to chapter leaders and members several informational resources. Click on each title to see the last version.
Audubon Newswire
Audubon Wingspan
Chapter Leader 5/2/2012
Cool Planet Program
Because of an AD Henderson Foundation grant, South Florida Audubon is offering the Cool Planet program to upper elementary students in Broward County Title One Schools. The program is an interactive environmental education divided into four one hour modules delivered weekly over 5 weeks.
Teachers of 4th & 5th graders and school principals should contact Maria Rotunda (maria@myearthprints.com) or call 954 937-4903 to set this up for your class or school.
South Florida Audubon Meetings
Join members of the South Florida Audubon Society for monthly meetings from 7:30 to 9 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month from September to April. The location alternates between Fern Forest Nature Center (FF) in Coconut Creek and Anne Kolb Nature Center (AK) in Hollywood.
On April 19th the meeting featured winners in the Broward County Science Fair held in Fort Lauderdale. From over 800 entires, SFAS chose two Middle School and two High School projects. Middle School Winners this year are Eli Flynn of Sawgrass Springs Middle School with project "Water Filtration" (1st place) and Ryan Dougherty of Pioneer Middle School with project "Maleleuca Sucks Oil!" (2nd place). High School winners are Courtney Summers of Cooper City Senior High with project "Bio Fuel III" (lst place) and Jonathan Galka of North Broward Prep High School with "Differences in the Primary Songs of Blue Gray and Palm Tanagers: Consequences of Hybridization" (2nd place). To see former Award Winners Click here .
10/25-27/2012 Audubon Assembly in Sarasota, FL with Keynote by Cynthia Barnett, Author Mirage & the Blue Revolution
Eco-Movie Events
Eco-Movie Events are available on the fourth Tuesday of each month at UF/IFAS Broward Education Extension Office at 3245 College Ave., Davie, FL 33314.
These eco-movies are being co-sponsored by South Florida Audubon Society, Broward County Environmental Education Council (EEC), and the Green League of Broward in conjunction with Sawgrass Nature Center.The films represent many hours of research and production to help educate the community about the ecosystems around us. After each movie, there is a panel discussion on ways to make a positive impact based on the topic of the day.
For Local/State Events click here
Birding Field Trips
South Florida Audubon Society participates in local field trips as well as special birding events in South Florida from Fall to Spring. For birding hotspots in Broward County click here and for birding festivals in Florida click here.
Tropical Audubon Society
Tropical Audubon Society provides one day and weekend birding field trips. They also maintain a blog on sightings of rare birds in South Florida. Click here to visit their website.
Birding Tours
For birding tours worldwide go to our Birding the World webpage.
View Eagles on the Nest in Pembroke Pines (click here). The nest is located on the southside of west Pembroke Pines east of 209th Avenue.
Florida Scrub-Jay Survival
Recent research has suggested ways we can help the Florida Scrub-Jay survive. Click here to read about it.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology News
For Bird Log App, click here.
For Birding Range Shifts, click here.
For news about Red Tail Hawks, click here.
For news about Spring Warblers, click here.
For cam access for Great Blue Herons, click here.
New Books & DVDs
New Panhandle and East guidebooks are available throgh the Wildlife foundation of Florida. Click here.
Free Kite Tales newsletter for the reat Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail. Click here.
Bird Song: Defined, Decoded, Described For book details and to hear sample recordings click here.
Snake in the Grass: An Everglades Invasion by Larry Perez.
Chasing the Ghost Birds (book) and Saving the Ghost Birds (DVD) (whooping cranes) Visit www.videoagepro.com/stgb.html for details.