Join Program Coordinator Andrew Lydeard for a birding adventure at Monte Sano State Park—North Alabama’s most iconic songbird hotspot!
Join Alabama Audubon for a MEMBERS tour of the new Eco Center for Gulf Shores Center for Ecotourism & Sustainability.
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 birdsong.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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