SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Choose as many of the midday experiences as you would like, there is time for all 3.

THE JOE FARM

1965 County Road 57, Newbern
$40 / 9am–11:30am

Spend a few hours as a guest of the Joe family on their multi-generational Black Angus cattle farm. As we watch, the Joes will harvest hay which can attract many Swallow-tailed and Mississippi Kites that dive after insects stirred up by the tractor—some at eye-level. As we wait for the kites, enjoy birding the nearby hedgerows and bottomland forest, and chat with the Joes and fellow nature lovers.

***Depending on your preferred map, it is possible that you may be led to an address that is on the same road as the farm but that is not the precise location where you will need to be in order to join the group.

Be sure to look for our directional signage when traveling. We recommend you use GPS coordinates to ensure you arrive at the correct location: 32.54659° N, 87.59189° W

BIRDS OF PREY

PRESENTED BY ALABAMA WILDLIFE CENTER
ALABAMA AUDUBON Office / 1014 Whelan Street, Greensboro
$20 / 1:30pm–2:20pm

Meet the staff of the Alabama Wildlife Center and their bird ambassadors—live owls, hawks, kites, and falcons. AWC is Alabama’s oldest and largest wildlife rehabilitation facility and cares for almost two thousand wild bird patients each year. The magnificent birds you will meet face-to-face have injuries preventing them from re-entering the wild, so they are used in education to heighten appreciation of Alabama’s native wildlife.

KEY NOTE ADDRESS / DR. JAMES LAMB

HISTORIC GREENSBORO OPERA HOUSE
1217 Main Street, Greensboro
$15 / 2:30pm–3:30pm

The 2023 Keynote Address will be presented by DR. JAMES LAMB, The Black Belt Museum’s Curator of Paleontology from the University of West Alabama in Livingston. His topic will be THE BLACK BELT / Ancient Oceans, Dinosaurs in the Prairie, through which he will he will explore how the Black Belt has produced more dinosaur skeletons than any other area east of the Mississippi River, and all unique to Alabama. “Ancient toothed birds once flew over shallow oceans in the Black Belt, where catfish ponds now abound, and lived alongside their dinosaur cousins” [...] FIND OUT MORE