Bring A Day With the Birds to South Florida
Community Science. Environmental Education. Conservation Action.
South Florida Audubon Society is working to bring A Day With the Birds: Community Science & the Audubon Christmas Bird Count to South Florida. This bilingual traveling exhibition connects visitors with birds, migration, community science, conservation, bird habitat, and the remarkable history of the Christmas Bird Count.
The exhibit will serve as a platform for environmental education, community science, public engagement, and conservation action.
Help Us Reach Our $20,000 Goal
$20,000
Campaign Goal
$10,000
Matching Support Already Committed
$10,000
Still Needed
We are halfway to our goal. SFAS has secured $10,000 in matching support and is seeking the remaining $10,000 from individuals, businesses, foundations, and community partners.
Leadership gifts of $1,000, $5,000, or $10,000 can make a significant impact, while gifts of every size help move the campaign forward.
What Is A Day With the Birds?
A Day With the Birds: Community Science & the Audubon Christmas Bird Count is an approximately 1,000-square-foot professionally developed traveling exhibition exploring the relationship between birds, people, science, habitat, and conservation.
Through photographs, interpretive panels, historical materials, bird specimens, interactive educational elements, and bilingual interpretation in English and Spanish, visitors can explore community science, the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, bird identification, migration, conservation, habitat, and the history of people involved in bird science.
The goal is not simply to teach visitors about birds—it is to show people how they can become participants in their conservation.
Inside the Exhibition
Why Bring This Exhibition to South Florida?
South Florida sits along an important bird migration corridor and is home to diverse communities that can benefit from accessible, place-based environmental education.
SFAS wants to use A Day With the Birds as a gateway between learning about conservation and participating in conservation. A visitor’s experience should not end when they leave the exhibition.
SFAS plans to connect the exhibition with guided bird walks, environmental education, youth and family programs, school engagement, bilingual programming, community science, habitat restoration, native planting, volunteer opportunities, bird monitoring, and conservation stewardship.
Learning → Exploring → Participating → Conserving
Community Science and the Christmas Bird Count
At the heart of the exhibition is the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, a tradition that demonstrates how people can contribute to our understanding of birds through organized observation and community participation.
SFAS plans to use the exhibition to introduce new audiences to the Christmas Bird Count and other bird-focused community-science activities. Visitors can discover that meaningful observations about the natural world can become part of something larger.
For some visitors, the exhibition may be their first introduction to birding. For others, it may be the first time they see how birding, scientific observation, habitat restoration, native planting, monitoring, volunteerism, and conservation are connected.
What Your Donation Will Support
Exhibit Rental and Shipping
Helping bring the professionally developed traveling exhibition to South Florida.
Installation and Site Preparation
Preparing the exhibition space so visitors can experience the exhibit in a professional and welcoming setting.
Bilingual Educational Materials and Interpretation
Supporting accessible environmental education for English- and Spanish-speaking audiences.
School and Family Programs
Creating opportunities for children, families, students, and educators to engage with birds and conservation.
Guided Tours and Bird Walks
Connecting what visitors learn inside the exhibition with birds and habitats in the community.
Christmas Bird Count and Community-Science Activities
Introducing more people to hands-on participation in bird observation and community science.
Public Outreach and Volunteer Engagement
Reaching new audiences and connecting visitors with meaningful conservation opportunities.
Conservation Programming
Creating pathways from education to habitat restoration, native planting, bird monitoring, stewardship, and other conservation activities.
Your contribution supports more than an exhibition. It helps create opportunities for people to learn, participate, and take action for birds and their habitats.
Planned Community Impact
SFAS wants A Day With the Birds to create an impact that extends beyond the exhibition itself. The project will provide a platform for environmental education, community science, youth engagement, family programming, bilingual outreach, birding and bird identification, guided outdoor experiences, volunteer recruitment, habitat restoration, native planting, conservation awareness, and community partnerships.
The exhibition becomes the starting point—not the ending point—for conservation participation.
An Opportunity for Businesses, Foundations, and Community Partners
SFAS welcomes support from businesses, foundations, corporations, community organizations, and philanthropic partners interested in environmental education, conservation, community engagement, community science, youth programming, and protecting South Florida’s natural resources.
Organizations and individuals considering a major gift are invited to support the campaign and help make this educational and conservation resource available to South Florida.
About South Florida Audubon Society
South Florida Audubon Society works to conserve and restore South Florida’s ecosystems, particularly birds and their habitats, through advocacy, environmental education, community engagement, community science, habitat restoration, and volunteer stewardship.
South Florida Audubon Society is legally incorporated as Broward County Audubon Society, Inc.
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 9644, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33310
Federal EIN: 59-6196137
Help Bring A Day With the Birds to South Florida
We have $10,000 committed. Help us raise the final $10,000.
Together, we can bring this bilingual traveling exhibition to South Florida and use it as a platform for education, community science, public engagement, and conservation action.
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South Florida Audubon Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.