Alabama Audubon will be hosting their fall migratory banding station Monday October 13-Saturday October 18 at the Dauphin Island Audubon Bird Sanctuary.

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 Alabama Audubon for this month's Nature at Noon outing at Bayfront Park in Daphne, AL. The park is situated along Mobile Bay, making it a great location for waders, shorebirds, and other waterbirds.

Join Alabama Audubon's Program Coordinator, Andrew Lydeard, for a dive into Alabama's ducks as they begin arriving for winter! This course will cover the expected species in the state, where and how to find them, and field tips to help you ID them, even at a distance!

Join Coastal Manager Cortney Weatherby and Program Coordinator Andrew Lydeard as they lead you through a morning tour of the Clearwater Tract in Upper Delta Wildlife Management Area.

Join Executive Director Scot Duncan and Programs Coordinator Andrew Lydeard via Zoom for a slide show and information session about our upcoming birding tour in Belize.

Join Alabama Audubon for a special access field trip to one of Alabama's most diverse prairies, Wild Horse Prairie, located in Geiger, AL. Wild Horse Prairie is owned and managed by Mitchell and Hazel Bell.

Join us for Swift Night Out in Greensboro! We will meet before sunset to chat about swifts, then watch as thousands of birds come in to roost for the night. Meet up at Greensboro Elementary School on State Street.

Join us for Swift Night Out in Mobile as we enjoy the evening with one of our favorite urban birds, the Chimney Swift.

Join us for an inaugural birding adventure at the new Flying Creek Nature Preserve in Fairhope! The 108-acre parcel of land between Veterans Boulevard and Fly Creek boasts a diverse forest and riparian ecosystem.

The Fall Bird Count (our 61st!) will be held Saturday, September 27, 2025. Our goal is to count as many bird species as possible by mustering as many parties as possible to cover as much of Jefferson, Shelby and St. Clair Counties as we can. It's an all-day affair!

Join us for Swift Night Out in Mobile as we enjoy the evening with one of our favorite urban birds, the Chimney Swift.

Join us for a special Alabama Audubon members workshop exploring how climate change affects Alabama’s birds and environment.

We will begin this trip at Dauphin Island’s Middle Beach. Making our way through the dunes towards the beach, we will keep our eyes open for sparrows flitting about and listen for rails calling.

Join us for a guided walk through Hoover/Inverness Nature Park, an easily accessible gem right off Highway 280. The paved trail offers gentle elevation and winds among tall trees, giving excellent views of both the mid-story and cut-through.

Join Alabama Audubon and special guest, Dr. Joe Gyekis from Penn State University, for an introduction into Night Flight Calls that you won't want to miss!

Join us for an exclusive birdwatching adventure at the Perdido River Preserve in Bay Minette, Alabama. This property is an amazing opportunity to explore diverse habitats along the Florida-Alabama line and is perhaps most well-known for its density of visiting hummingbirds in the fall!

Join Alabama Audubon for this month's Nature at Noon outing at Old Cahawba Archaelogical Park in Dallas County. The park is situated where the Alabama and Cahaba Rivers meet, making it a great location for migrating birds that are moving down the rivers.

Situated where the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers meet to form the Alabama River, this area offers a diverse habitat which attracts a variety of birds and wildlife. We’ll follow a dirt loop trail which meanders past an open field, along the river and through a wooded section. The trail is approximately 1.5 miles. We’ll be traveling at a leisurely pace and expect to spend about 2-2 ½ hours at this location.

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 the Labor Day holiday.

Join Program Coordinator Andrew Lydeard for a birding adventure at Monte Sano State Park— one of North Alabama’s most iconic songbird hotspots!

Join Alabama Audubon at one of North Alabama's best songbird migration hotspots for a Big Sit around the legendary water features this August at Chapman Mountain Nature Preserve near Huntsville.

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. Stand Alone Session 2

Join Program Coordinator Andrew Lydeard for a fall migration field trip, specifically in search of tough-to-identify warblers passing through the area this time of year. We will cover the basic field marks, ID tips, and other strategies to help you figure out who you're watching!

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

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.

Join JCG and Alabama Audubon to see birds up close as scientists document Ruffner Mountain’s summer bird community through bird banding—the capture, measurement, and release of wild birds.

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!

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!