ONLINE Course: Audubon at Home: Birdwatching for Beginners
Master-birder Greg Harber teaches students everything they need to know to get started with their new favorite hobby in our first-ever online course.
Master-birder Greg Harber teaches students everything they need to know to get started with their new favorite hobby in our first-ever online course.
Learn all about one of our favorite birds, the chimney swift, from our Science & Conservation Director.
Participate in one of the Alabama Gulf Coast's most exciting annual bird events.
Find out about all the ways you can use eBird in the first of a two-part series with Anne Miller, founder of the Alabama Wildlife Center.
Join Greg Harber as he teaches students about selecting optics and bird field guides to better see and learn to identify birds.
Discover all the ways you can use eBird in the second of a two-part series with Anne Miller, founder of the Alabama Wildlife Center.
In order to keep our members safe, the Alabama Audubon Board of Directors has decided not to hold this year's Annual Membership Meeting in April. Click here for more details.
It's our Spring Bird Count with a twist! Help us gather important data on our city's breeding and migratory bird populations, or make a pledge for the total number of species counted to support Alabama Audubon.
Join our Coastal Biologist Olivia Morpeth for this course all about snowy plovers, one of our top species of concern we monitor on the Alabama coast.
Learn to identify birds by their songs with Paul H. Franklin.
Join our first-ever online book club with Alabama Audubon's Alliemarie Humphries!
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this field trip has been canceled.
Master-birder Greg Harber teaches students everything they need to know to get started with their new favorite hobby.
Learn what it means to be a colonial nesting species on the Alabama coast from Coastal Biologist Sabrina Cobb.
Mountain Workshop has been canceled.
Explore the primary songs of the robin, the tanagers, several of the vireos, and more for what promises to be a lively walk through the realm of native bird songs.
Discover what to do if you find a baby bird from Alabama Wildlife Center founder Anne G. Miller.
Learn about the second leading cause of bird deaths in North America along with solutions you can do at home to eliminate bird window collisions.
Learn to recognize and separate the vocalizations of our mimic thrushes and name-sayers with Paul H. Franklin.
Join Paul H. Franklin and learn to identify birds by their songs in the second installment of this online course.
Master-birder Greg Harber teaches students everything they need to know to get started with their new favorite hobby in the third offering of this popular online course.
Discover why bird banding is so important for their conservation and how to report a sighting of a banded bird with our Science & Conservation Director.
Join our second online book club with Alabama Audubon's Alliemarie Humphries and read a novel about life stories of nine Americans whose experiences with trees brings them together to face the issue of deforestation.
Explore the primary songs of the robin, the tanagers, several of the vireos, and more for what promises to be a lively walk through the realm of native bird songs in the second installment of this online course.
Join Timothy Joe of the Joe Farm as he teaches techniques on how to paint what inspires us in nature into a journal in the inaugural offering of this online four-week course.
Master-birder Greg Harber teaches students everything they need to know to get started with their new favorite hobby in the third offering of this popular online course.
Tune into our Facebook page on Wednesday, June 24th, at 9 a.m. CDT for a special Pride month Let's Go Birding Together Facebook Live bird walk!
Join Dr. John Friel, Director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History, for an overview of the iNaturalist platform and how it can be used to make nature observations.
Learn how you can take action to help conservation efforts on behalf of chimney swifts in this online course with our Science & Conservation Director.
Join us online for a night of membership appreciation as we reflect on the last year and look forward to all the great things we've got coming up in the next year.
Join us for a virtual field trip to see kites, storks, and more in the Alabama Black Belt.
Take a a virtual field trip to Alabama’s Black Belt region and learn where you can take your own field trip in the coming weeks to see Mississippi and swallow-tailed kites, painted buntings, wood storks, and more.
Beach birds, especially shorebirds, are often difficult even for experienced birders to identify. Join Andrew Haffenden for this new, five-week course!
Learn about the second leading cause of bird deaths in North America along with solutions you can do at home to eliminate bird window collisions in the second offering of this online course.
Master-birder Greg Harber teaches students everything they need to know to get started with their new favorite hobby in this popular online course.
Don't miss this chance to virtually see migrating chimney swifts downtown.
Join Greg Harber as he teaches you everything you’ll need to know about your new favorite hobby. This is a more in-depth, seven-week offering expanding on our online Birdwatching for Beginners course.
Learn about the critical role vultures play in the ecosystem, how to identify Alabama’s resident birds, as well as the steep decline in global populations in this new online course from Jessie Griswold.
Participate in our Fall Bird Count from your home feeder or backyard!
Don't miss this chance to virtually see migrating chimney swifts in downtown Birmingham!
Fall is perfect for learning native trees! Learn from Henry Hughes, who worked in urban and rural forestry in Alabama for over 25 years.
Learn about Alabama's owls in this new, online course from Anne Miller, founder of the Alabama Wildlife Center!
Join Timothy Joe of the Joe Farm as he teaches techniques on how to paint what inspires us in nature into a journal in the second offering of this online, four-week course.
Join us for a panel talk with Christian Cooper, Dr. Rashidah Farid, Chris Joe, Dr. Drew Lanham, Corina Newsome, and Jason Ward as we hold a lens to the Deep South’s specific needs for a more inclusive future in birding.
Learn techniques on how to paint birds in a loose painting style using soft pastels in this new online three-week course from Timothy Joe.
Learn to identify loons, grebes, geese, ducks, and cranes you’re likely to encounter on or near Alabama’s winter waterways.
Join us for an evening with Ben Raines as he explores Alabama’s extraordinary biodiversity, while chronicling the past and present hazards—from dams to pesticides to clear-cut logging to lax environmental regulation—that threaten the future of this priceless natural resource.
Take a virtual tour of the Audubon Mural Project in Harlem, highlighting the beautiful artwork of many bird species threatened by climate change.
Discover birding through the seasons with Anne Miller, founder of the Alabama Wildlife Center, and learn about the amazing new tools now available for observing and understanding birds.
Learn about the second leading cause of bird deaths in North America along with solutions you can do at home to eliminate bird window collisions.
Join Drew Haffenden for this two-week course designed to bring you either up to speed, or to refresh your dusty memory from a year ago, in identifying migrating shorebirds.
Learn about the critical role vultures play in the ecosystem, how to identify Alabama’s resident birds, as well as the steep decline in global populations in this online course from Jessie Griswold.
Interested in exploring the most misunderstood birds in North America? Join Martha Harbison and Purbita Saha of the Feminist Bird Club and Galbatross Project for an intro on how to fundamentally change the way you bird.
Learn how to create a bird-friendly backyard and find out why it's the mess that's best.
Visit native forests through photographs and learn common and scientific names of over sixty prevalent native tree species with Henry Hughes and Michelle Blackwood.
Join Alabama Audubon’s Coastal Biologist, Sabrina Cobb, as she facilitates this important conversation with researchers from across the Gulf Coast on how climate change is impacting coastal systems and the birds that rely on them for this special Earth Day event. This event will coincide with our Annual Membership Meeting.
Seasonal bird counts have been a central part of Alabama Audubon’s work ever since its founding in 1946. This year, we’re continuing that tradition with three great counts, culminating in our fifty-seventh annual Spring Bird Count Saturday, April 24th.
Experience first-hand nature journaling with this demonstration by artist Timothy Joe and then join him for a full-length workshop to practice doing it yourself.
Take a deep dive with Paul Franklin into the wonder and delight of the birds' songs as they put on their concert for us.
Hummingbirds inspire an unmistakable sense of devotion and awe among bird lovers. Lifelong birder John Shewey provides all you need to know to entice these delightful creatures.