We are excited to join forces with our partners and hosts of this event, Meaher State Park. All birders with any level of experience are welcome to take part in this program.
Birding has been aptly described as the gateway drug to butterflies! Oak Mountain State Park’s Green Trail is one of the premiere spring butterfly sites in Alabama! If the weather cooperates, we expect to see common species like Eastern Tiger, Zebra, Pipevine, and Spicebush Swallowtails as well as specialties like Falcate Orangetips and Yucca Giant-Skippers.
Join us for our monthly Nature @ Noon event with our friends at Red Mountain this April! Every month, we offer an opportunity to participate in an hour-long, Friday lunchtime walk that explores different locations of the state and its nature each month.
Payne Lake is a lovely, under-visited (read: peaceful and quiet) recreation area within the Oakmulgee National Forest, located just off Hwy 25 in northern Hale County, AL. To be there on an early Spring morning is to be serenaded by a bounty of early migrant songbirds -- Northern parula, Black-and-white, Yellow-throated, Prairie, and Prothonatary warblers, White-eyed and Yellow-throated vireos, and Louisiana waterthrushes
Join Coastal Programs Manager Cortney Weatherby and Program Coordinator, Andrew Lydeard, on a coastal spring trip to one to Alabama's best locations for shorebirds, the Blakeley Mud Lakes in Mobile!
Sportsmans Lake is located in Cullman and is just a short distance from highway 65. This is an easy walk around the lake and under pine trees. This is a very pleasant area with plenty of parking. Red Winged Blackbirds, warblers and migrants are all possible and have been seen here.
Our banding station is one of the few in the US open to the public. Join us to see migrant birds up close after their journey across the Gulf of Mexico. We’ll also offer bird and nature walks, tabling by allied organizations, and more. Bring your cameras and enjoy unparalleled access to the researchers and their work, with up-close-and-personal views of some amazing birds!
Join us during this state-wide, 24-hour competitive birding event, youth teams ranging from pre-kindergarten through high school will compete against other teams in their age division for most species identified, among other categories, for prizes and recognition. Let’s share our love of birds with the next generation!
Join us for bird banding at Ruffner Mountain! Come get an up close look at birds and learn about bird banding.
Join us for an exclusive Alabama Audubon MEMBERS event at Chapman Mountain Nature Preserve!
Join us as we celebrate the birds that depend on the unique and vital habitats only found in Baldwin County. From the songbirds in your backyards to the shorebirds on our beautiful beaches, birds are dependent on the health of area ecosystems for survival, including that of native plants and pollinators. Birds need insects, insects need native plants—and they need you to help protect a future for it all!
Let us do the driving, and let's go birding by bus in the Black Belt! We will visit Perry Lakes Park and M. Barnett Lawley Forever Wild Field Trial Area (Old State Cattle Ranch). Early May is when the last wave of migratory birds are pushing through Alabama, so we can expect to see warblers, vireos, and other songbirds!
Join Alabama Audubon for a MEMBERS tour of the new Eco Center for Gulf Shores Center for Ecotourism & Sustainability.
Join Alabama Audubon and American Birding Guides for a May 2025 adventure in southeastern Arizona -- one of the top birding destinations in the United States!
Tucked along the waters edge the Fairhope Pier and Beach offers not only iconic views of Mobile Bay, but its birds too!
This free Saturday field trip will feature one of Birmingham's oldest city parks, Avondale Park, and if time permits, one of its newest, WC Patton Park located a short drive away!
WINDOW COLLISION MONITORING / Volunteer Training
Led by Lianne Koczur, our Science & Conservation Director, this fall you will have the opportunity to become part of a team that collects important data on bird-window strikes, which will be used to help us direct conservation actions. Standalone Session 2
Alabama Audubon will be returning to Cuba for our third time March 16-23, 2025. This trip will once again be with our trusted friends at Conservancy Travel. Registration for the trip will open soon!!
Join us for bird banding at Ruffner Mountain! Come get an up close look at birds and learn about bird banding.
Join Coastal Outreach Manager Cortney Weatherby for an evening walk through historic Fort Morgan, one of the most exciting birding hotspots located on the Alabama coast!
WINDOW COLLISION MONITORING / Volunteer Training
Led by Lianne Koczur, our Science & Conservation Director, this fall you will have the opportunity to become part of a team that collects important data on bird-window strikes, which will be used to help us direct conservation actions. Standalone Session 1
Join us for our monthly Nature @ Noon event with our friends at Ruffner Mountain! Every month, we offer an opportunity to participate in an hour-long, Friday lunchtime walk that explores different locations of the state and its nature each month.
The Nature Conservancy’s 3,000+ acre Splinter Hill Bog Preserve is home to scattered stands of sandy upland longleaf pine forest and coastal blackwater streams and includes some of the most intact seepage bogs remaining along the Gulf Coast.
Join Alabama Audubon as we approach springtime with special guest speaker and acclaimed author, Randi Minetor!
This trip takes us to Harrison Lake in Maplesville, a large pond near a river which attracts winter waterfowl and year-round species. The area around the pond has an unobstructed view of the entire site and is an excellent spot for bird spotting.
Join Alabama Audubon for our monthly Nature at Noon outing, this month in Tuscaloosa at the Tuscaloosa River Walk! Our resident birds begin tuning up for the breeding season around this time, and many birders in Alabama recognize signs of early spring by hearing Northern Cardinals, Cardinal Wrens, and Pine Warblers practicing for attracting a mate for spring.
Tucked along the waters edge the Fairhope Pier and Beach offers not only iconic views of Mobile Bay, but its birds too!
Join us for bird banding at Ruffner Mountain! Come get an up close look at birds and learn about bird banding.
Join us this February on this special bus tour to the Black Belt region of western Alabama to see the winter birds and waterfowl that spend the cooler months in this area.
Each February, for four days, the world comes together for the love of birds, spending time in favorite places, watching and counting as many birds as can be found while reporting their observations—citizen science at its best. You can contribute to the science and conservation of the birds near you and across the globe with thousands of other birdwatchers.
Join Alabama Audubon as we participate in this year’s Great Backyard Bird Count on February 15th at the Birmingham Zoo—it offers a variety of habitats and no less than 30 species can typically be seen on our walk, including hawks, woodpeckers, winter warblers, wrens, blackbirds, finches, and many other songbirds.
Join Coastal Programs Manager Cortney Weatherby and local birding expert, Mason Currier, on a winter trip to one of Alabama's best locations for shorebirds, the Blakeley Mud Lakes in Mobile!
Join Alabama Audubon and Program Coordinator Andrew Lydeard for a Beginner Birder Field Trip to Wood Duck Heritage Preserve (also known as Siddique Nature Park) as we explore winter birding in Lee County, AL. We will be joined by local birding expert and Alabama Audubon board member, Barry Fleming!
The Pinhoti Trail/Coleman Lake Campground area of the Talladega National Forest is an excellent location to search for Red-cockaded Woodpeckers and Red Crossbills, which are our target birds for this free Saturday field trip!
Dr. Lianne Koczur will be talking about why window collisions happen and what we can do to prevent them. She will also talk about Alabama Audubon's Project Safe Flight initiative and what the project has accomplished during the last two years.
Get ready to spread your wings and celebrate! Join us for a fun and exciting reveal of Alabama’s Bird of the Year.
Who will our mysterious friend be?
Mark your calendars—we can’t wait to see you there!
5 Rivers Delta Resource Center is a popular birding hot spot located at the top of Mobile Bay at the gateway to the Mobile-Tensaw Delta.
Curious about the mid-February domestic trip to the Tennessee and Missouri's section of the Mississippi River Flyway? Program Coordinator Andrew Lydeard and Executive Director Dr. Scot Duncan will lead a brief online information session about the locations we'll visit and birds we are likely to encounter during this long-weekend adventure, including the possibility of Short-eared, Long-eared, and Barn Owls, thousands of ducks and geese, American Tree and LeConte's Sparrows, and many more incredible winter birds!
Join us for bird banding at Ruffner Mountain! Come get an up close look at birds and learn about bird banding.
Alabama Point East in the winter is a unique birding experience thanks to the fast moving waters around Perdido Pass.
Lake Guntersville is always a productive place to visit. We expect to see Bald eagles, of course, but there is much more to entertain a birder there -- Loons and horned grebes in numbers, the chance for both diving and "puddle" ducks, gulls, Kingfishers, and "quality" songbirds.
Join us this January for another bus trip, this time to Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge in North Alabama!
Wheeler NWR is among the most popular birding destinations in all of the southeastern United States as thousands of ducks, geese, and especially cranes descend on the area during the cooler months of the year.
We are excited to join forces with our partners and hosts of this event, Meaher State Park. All birders with any level of experience are welcome to take part in this program.
Join Ava Lyerly for a Kids Bird Walk at Delano Park ages 5-18!
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