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Choctawhatchee Audubon activities for December

Dec 1: Monthly Meeting: Presentation “The Christmas Bird Count 2016.” Learn about the oldest and largest wildlife survey in the world and how you can help. Alan Knothe, biologist and local bird count coordinator, will speak on the history of the National Christmas Bird Count and the origination of our count in Okaloosa County. You will learn how to identify rare and unusual birds and how to get involved. No birding experience is necessary. The actual count will take place...

Choctawhatchee Audubon activities for December

Dec 1: Monthly Meeting: Presentation “The Christmas Bird Count 2016.” Learn about the oldest and largest wildlife survey in the world and how you can help. Alan Knothe, biologist and local bird count coordinator, will speak on the history of the National Christmas Bird Count and the origination of our count in Okaloosa County. You will learn how to identify rare and unusual birds and how to get involved. No birding experience is necessary. The actual count will take place...

Choctawhatchee Audubon activities for November 2016

Nov 3: Monthly Meeting: Presentation “USFWS Conservation Projects at Eglin AFB” by Bill Tate, US Fish and Wildlife Service biologist. Tate will present his research in support of the Air Force resource/ecosystem management activities at Eglin. Eglin is home to a number of endangered/threatened species including the Red Cockaded Woodpecker, Gopher Tortoise, Indigo Snake and Okaloosa Darter. Tate is a supervisory biologist for the USFWS office in Panama City currently assigned to Eglin as their aquatic ecologist. The meeting will...

Wings Over Florida birding hike at Blackwater Fisheries Research Nov. 5

Date/time: Saturday, Nov. 5, 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. Join Great Florida Birding & Wildlife Trail coordinator Whitney Gray and Wings Over Florida coordinator Andy Wraithmell for a hike around the wonderful birding trail site at Blackwater Fisheries Research. You will walk the dikes between the aquaculture ponds, looking for wintering wildfowl such as Ring-necked Duck and Blue-winged Teal. Wilson’s Snipe feed along the muddy edges. Bachman’s Sparrows and Brown-headed Nuthatches are fairly common and Henslow’s Sparrow has been recorded in...

Choctawhatchee Audubon activities for October 2016

Oct 6: Monthly Meeting: Presentation: “eBird: A tool for collecting, sharing, and discovering data on birds around the world.” Bruce Purdy, eBird reviewer, will present a primer on the use of eBird Mobile. eBird is part of a system developed by the Cornell Ornithological Lab at Cornell University.  You can use it on a smart phone to keep records of your own observations and to find out where you might find new birds or birding hotspots when traveling to a...

Choctawhatchee Audubon Society activities for September 2016

Sept. 1: Monthly Meeting: CANCELLED Sept. 17: Birdwalk. Visit the holding ponds at the Okaloosa County Waste Water Treatment Facility and FWB Landfill. Meet with Lenny Fenimore, nationally recognized birder, at Pepitos 1313 Lewis Turner Blvd at 7:30 AM Saturday the 17th of September and travel a short distance to the ponds. Observe waterfowl, waders and shorebirds migrating through the Florida Panhandle. Contact Lenny at 850 863-2039 for additional information....

Choctawhatchee Audubon Society meeting Aug. 4

The Choctawhatchee Audubon Society’s monthly meeting will focus on the natural history and conservation of the Bahama Parrot. Although the Bahama Parrot is one of the closest native parrots to the United States, people rarely know of this species. Dr. Caroline Stahala has been conducting behavioral and demographic studies on this parrot for 14 years now and will be presenting on the species’ natural history. This parrot exhibits a unique behavior in that it nests underground in limestone solution cavities....