
WELCOME TO SOUTH FLORIDA AUDUBON SOCIETY
Welcome to the new website for Broward County Audubon Society. This website reflects many of the changes taking place: Name change, new logo, and an updated user friendly design. Because this chapter of Audubon of Florida and National Audubon Society is growing in its outreach and services to the region, it will be known as South Florida Audubon Society. Its logo will reflect its unity with Audubon Societies nationwide.
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 also known as the Greater Everglades Ecosystem.
MEETINGS & SPECIAL EVENTS
South Florida Audubon Meetings
Save the following dates for future SFAS Meetings: 9/17/09, 10/22/09, 11/19/09, 12/17/09, 1/21/10, 2/18/10, 3/18/10, 4/15/10, 5/20/10, & 6/17/10.
10/23-24/2009 Audubon Assembly
The theme of the 2009 Audubon Assembly being held at the Hilton St. Petersburg Carillon Park (a certified green lodge) is "Conserving our Coasts as the Climate Changes". Keynote speaker is Dr. Sylvia Earle, winner of Audubon's Rachel Carson Award. For a video of Dr. Earle speaking at a TED award click here. Details will be available in July at http://www.audubonofflorida.org/.
BIRDING
Bird with South Florida Audubon
South Florida Audubon Society will renew its monthly birding field trips in September. Dates will be listed here and details will be described on our Events page. For questions about birding field trips, send an email to bcasfieldtrips@gmail.com.
Bird with Tropical Audubon Society
Tropical Audubon Society provides weekend birding field trips Fall through Spring. Visit their website for details.
Bird with Hendry-Glades Audubon
Through a partnership with the South Florida Water Management District, Hendry-Glades Audubon Society offers public escorted birding tours to Stormwater Treatment Area 5 (STA-5) south of Clewiston in eastern Hendry County. To register for a tour contact Margaret England (863) 674-0695 or send an email to her at sta5birding@embarqmail.com . Tours run from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Upcoming dates are June 20, July 11, August 15, September 19, and October 17.
Bird with Paddy
Paddy Cunningham Pascatore will be leading a birding trip to Duda Farms, Sod Farms and Holey Lands in August 15 or 22. Contact her at birdpaddy@yahoo.com for details. September 23-28 she will lead a group for Fall Migration Getaway in the Chesapeake Bay area.
Funky Nests in Funky Places
Cornell Lab of Ornithology is sponsoring a contest under its Celebrate Urban Birds Project. Find a bird nest in unusual places and then photograph it, paint it, write a story about it, or shoot a video of it. In your email type "Funky Nests" in the subject line and send to urbanbirds@cornell.edu. July 31, 2009 is the deadline for entries.
Conserving Birds in FL Mangroves
Some bird species and subspecies such as the Mangrove Cuckoo, Black-whiskered Vireo, Florida Prairie Warbler and Cuban Yellow Warbler depend on mangrove habitats. Drs. John D. Lloyd and Gary Slater of Ecostudies Institute are studying bird habitats in the mangroves in Florida. Click here to read a pdf formatted article overviewing progress on their study.
Dr. John D. Lloyd, Senior Research Ecologist has agreed to be the January 21, 2010 speaker at the South Florida Audubon Society meeting. Visit our
Events page to learn more.
Visit our Bird Science page to learn how you can be involved in studies such as this as a Citizen Scientist.
Bird Songs and Climate Changes
A study has just been completed by a collaboration of researchers at National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, and McGill University on the relationship between the complexity of bird songs and the role of locations with inconsistent climates. To see the press release for this click here.