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Florida Audubon seeking shorebird stewards for area state parks

Do you like the beach? Do you want to help our coastal wildlife survive? Become a part of the statewide efforts to help protect Florida’s beach-nesting shorebirds. It’s that time of year again when Florida’s rare shorebirds are nesting on our beaches and bird stewards are needed. Did you know beach-nesting birds like Snowy Plovers, Black Skimmers, American Oystercatchers and Least Terns lay their eggs on top of the sand and raise their young on our local beaches? Chicks less...

Choctawhatchee Audubon Society May 2017 events

4 May: Monthly Meeting and Presentation: “Gopher Tortoise Biology and Conservation” By Erica Laine, Wildlife Biologist, Eglin AFB Natural Resources. Eglin AFB has recently undertaken a large project to provide habitat for tortoises displaced by commercial development in other regions of Florida. Ms Laine will describe the scope of the project and the importance that the gopher has to Eglin’s ongoing habitat/wildlife restoration programs. The meeting will be held in Room 130 of the student services building (Bldg 400) at...

Choctawhatchee Audubon Society April events

6 April Monthly Meeting and Presentation: “Bug Eyes: What Do Insects See, and How Do We Know” By John Douglass, Scientist. Insect eyes are drastically different from vertebrate eyes, but having good vision can be extremely important for survival whether you re a tiny insect, or a giant squid. Thus, it comes as no surprise that various kinds of eyes have evolved to be exquisitely tuned to each animal s visual needs. In this talk, I will aim to describe...

Choctawhatchee Audubon Society events for March 2017

March 2 Monthly Meeting and Presentation: “Florida Fisheries-Independent Monitoring Program: Implications for Management and a Glimpse at Efforts From the Panhandle Region and Beyond” by David A Gandy, fishery scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Apalachicola Bay Field Lab at East Point, Fl. The meeting will be held in Room 130 of the student services building (Bldg 400) at the Northwest Florida State College – Niceville campus. Socializing begins at 6:30 PM and the program at 7:00...

Great Backyard Bird Count Feb. 17 – 20

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society is hosting their annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) Feb. 17 – 20, 2017. The participation is a free, fun, and easy event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of bird populations. Participants are asked to count birds for as little as 15 minutes (or as long as they wish) on one or more days of the four-day event and report...

Choctawhatchee Audubon Society February events

Audubon events for February 2017 2 February Monthly Meeting and Presentation: “Birding in the Philippines” — Choctawhatchee Audubon Society member Lenny Fenimore will entertain you with a photographic account of his March 2016 birding trip to the Philippines.  He explored the three large Philippine islands of Luzon, Mindanao and Palawan, covering diverse habitats from sea level to 9,000 feet, and saw representatives of 50 families of birds. The meeting will be held in Room 130 of the student services building...

Choctawhatchee Audubon events for January 2017

5 January Monthly Meeting and Presentation: Sex in the Sitta* – the Complex Social World of the Brown-headed Nuthatch. By Jim Cox, Director of the Stoddard Bird Lab at the Tall Timbers Research Station. A ton of intriguing biology is wrapped around this diminutive nuthatch. The Brown-headed Nuthatch is one of three bird species restricted to the Southeast U.S. Pinelands. Their treetop antics and rubber ducky calls make these inquisitive birds a pleasure to watch, but population declines coupled with...