Ready to explore one of Tuscaloosa County’s best-kept birding secrets? Join us for a morning on Fosters Loop Road, a scenic mix of paved and dirt roads winding through a patchwork of Alabama habitats—think open fields, shady pine plantations, cypress swamps, and everything in between!
July marks the beginning of fall shorebird migration, and Alabama Audubon is here to help you prepare! Join Program Coordinator Andrew Lydeard for an online course that covers the expected sandpipers and plovers found throughout Alabama.
The fifth annual BLACK BELT BIRDING FESTIVAL will take place on August 1, 2, & 3, 2025. Highlighting the birds, history, and heritage of Alabama’s Black Belt region, the festival brings together the joy of birding with the benefits of ecotourism to a region of profoundly important ecology and civil rights history. Click here to find out more!
The Tombigbee River in west Alabama will be part two of our Birding by the River summer trip series. The beauty of birding west Alabama in late summer – a time of post-breeding dispersal and early migrants – is that one never knows what to expect, and several times we have seen unexpected species.
Russ Bailey was a long-time member of Birmingham Audubon, and "back in the day" when we held only one field trip per month, Russ would have an impromptu field trip on Labor Day holiday.
Bowers Park and the wooded areas near the UA Arboretum attract a good variety of birds. These areas are "migrant traps," where birds passing through find these wooded habitats at the city's edge.
Join Program Coordinator Andrew Lydeard for Nature at Noon this July at the James D. Martin Wildlife Park in Gadsden! The park is an important wetland tract of the Coosa River and is home to a variety of birds, including a large egret and cormorant rookery!
Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is one of Alabama's premiere destinations for birding, especially in summer when wading and marsh birds are actively breeding.
Join Program Coordinator Andrew Lydeard for a field trip to Hollin's Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Clay County, Alabama in search of some of the birds (and other wildlife) active at night, including nightjars, owls, mammals, frogs, and anything else patroling the forest under July's full moon, which is the moon phase when many nocturnal birds are most active.
Join Alabama Audubon's Program Coordinator, Andrew Lydeard, and Jefferson County Greenways for a special early access field trip at Turkey Creek Nature Preserve in Pinson, Alabama to celebrate Pride Month! Let's Go Birding Together is a National Audubon Initiative that invites birders of all backgrounds to join for a relaxing birdwatching trip.
The Alabama River west of Montgomery has long been a birding destination for a number of the River Region’s specialties, and we’ll focus our efforts on both the north and south sides of the river looking for them!
Join Alabama Audubon's Program Coordinator Andrew Lydeard for an online course that covers everything you wanted to know about using eBird and the Merlin app, but were afraid to ask!
Paulette Haywood & Sara Bright, co-authors of Butterflies of Alabama and administrators of the Alabama Butterfly Atlas, (albutterflyatlas@gmail.com), will lead. June is an exciting month to look for butterflies in the Talladega NF Shoal Creek District. Butterfly milkweed should be blooming, and is a nectar magnet for many species, including swallowtails, hairstreaks, and fritillaries.
Join us for a 3-hour birding and biking tour led by Donald Dehm from Alabama Audubon! This tour is perfect for both beginner and advanced birders. Participants should be comfortable riding bikes for an extended period of time. With only 15 spots available, be sure to sign up quickly—this tour fills up fast!
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!
The honor of your presence is requested at the Annual Meeting of Alabama Audubon. Please plan on flocking like a Snowy Plover to the Homewood Library (Round Auditorium) on Thursday May 22, 2025. The event will begin at 6PM with a social half hour.
Shoal Creek Park, located near Montevallo in Shelby County, is an inviting and accessible destination for outdoor enthusiasts. The park features level, easy-to-traverse paths throughout the property, making it user-friendly for most visitors.
This Bullock County nature preserve has a variety of habitats, including a couple of small lakes with swampy edges, mixed woodlands, and some open pine savanna areas. Mid-May should be a peak time here for songbirds.
Join Alabama Audubon for a MEMBERS tour of the new Eco Center for Gulf Shores Center for Ecotourism & Sustainability.
Join Program Coordinator Andrew Lydeard for a birding adventure at Monte Sano State Park—North Alabama’s most iconic songbird hotspot!
Let us do the driving, and let's go birding by bus in the Black Belt! We will visit Perry Lakes Park. 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 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!
Join us for an exclusive Alabama Audubon MEMBERS event at Chapman Mountain Nature Preserve!
Join Program Coordinator, Andrew Lydeard, to one of the Birmingham area's best places to look for migratory songbirds, Oak Mountain State Park! The park offers a variety of ecosystems that are perfect for both breeding and migratory songbirds and is a great location to practice birding by ear.
Join us for bird banding at Ruffner Mountain! Come get an up close look at birds and learn about bird banding.
Birding has been aptly described as the gateway drug to butterflies! 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 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 Alabama Audubon for four (4) guided walks at Fort Morgan for this year's spring migration!
From April 14th through 17th, join us for guided bird walks at Fort Morgan, offered at various times throughout the day.
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!
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.
Join Coastal Outreach Manager Cortney Weatherby for an evening walk through one of coastal Alabama’s most cherished spring birding site- the Dauphin Island Shell Mounds!
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!
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 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.
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.
Tucked along the waters edge the Fairhope Pier and Beach offers not only iconic views of Mobile Bay, but its birds too!
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