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Anna's Hummingbird - Robert
Herron photo
Searcy - February 2008
Arkansas
Audubon Society Spring 2008 Conference
To
download the registration form, as a PDF file, click here.
To download the meeting agenda click here.
The Spring 2008 Conference
of the Arkansas
Audubon Society(AAS) will be held April 25-27 at the Janet
Huckabee Arkansas River Valley Nature Center in Ft. Smith
Meeting programs and meals will take place at the
nature center.
Special-rate
lodging is available at the Comfort Inn for $89.99 (call
479-484-0277), the
Aspen
for $94.99 (call 479-452-9000), or the
Hampton
for $99.00 (call 479-452-2000).
Reserve rooms by 4 April for these special rates (be
sure to mention you’re
with the AAS). All of these hotels are on the east side of
Ft.Smith
and are about a 5-10-minute drive from the nature center.
There’s GREAT bird watching at the nature center plus
EXCELLENT birding hotspots within short driving distances.
Stay tuned for more details!!
If you have questions/comments, please contact Jason
Luscier at jluscie@uark.edu
or (479) 871-9199.
AAS Adult Workshop
This annual workshop will be held Oct. 4 & 5 at Camp Ferncliff. Three different classes will be offered covering the subjects of trees, mushrooms, edible plants and trees.
Click here to read more and to obtain
the registration form.
Online
Bird Record Submissions!
Use our
on-line form for submitting
your records of rare or out-of-season bird observations to
the AAS Curator.
Checklists
of the Birds of Arkansas
The 2005
AAS Field Checklist of the birds of Arkansas is now available
for downloading. This is a five page download. This valuable resource provides a listing of
all the species of birds that occur in Arkansas with detail
codes on distribution, abundance, and dates of occurrence
for each. This is a large file (1.5 mb) and will take some time to download
on a dial-up connection. You will need the free pdf reader program Adobe
Acrobat installed to view and print the checklist.
Butterflies of Arkansas
A new 2004 checklist of the butterflies of
Arkansas, created by Herschel Raney, is
available HERE (Revised 2004. PDF file - 268k).
Downloadable Brochures!
We
also have a printable brochure about the Arkansas Audubon
Society that you can download and print on your computer.
You will need the free reader program, Adobe
Acrobat. If you already have that program on your computer,
Click Here to download our
brochure (595k). Please understand these files can be
quite large and may take several minutes to download.
Member
Address Changes
If
you move or have an address change, please notify the AAS
Treasurer
(twbutler at windstream.net )
to insure that you continue to receive the AAS newsletter
regularly.
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Welcome to the online home
of the Arkansas Audubon Society!
We
hope you will find our website informative and useful. As you look
through our site you'll find information about becoming
a member of the Arkansas Audubon Society, and a convenient online
form you can use to start that process.
Ivory-Billed
Woodpecker Record Accepted
After
reviewing evidence of the ivory-billed woodpecker gathered in the
Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in April 2004, the Bird Records
Committee of the Arkansas Audubon Society has voted to change the
status of the bird in Arkansas from "extirpated" to "present".
[More...]
Big
Woods Birding Opportunities
Click
here to visit the US
Fish & Wildlife website with more information on Big Woods
Birding Opportunities and the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
Bird
Records
We also have a form you can use to contact the Arkansas
Bird Records Committee with any sightings you have made. You
can see a list of unusual bird sightings
for the last quarter or do a search
of all rare bird observations for the period 1986-2006.
General
Information
You can also
find other information about the Arkansas Audubon Society including
our Mission and our By-Laws, as well
as the Society Trust, and even excerpts from Arkansas
Birds, our Quarterly Newsletter
that all AAS members receive.
Would
you like a scholarship to attend a nature camp or to perform
bird related research? Click on this
link for more information.
The photographs you see on this
site were taken by AAS members Charles Mills and Rob Doster. To view additional photographs by
AAS members click on this link.
Halberg
Ecology Camp
Kids and parents,
be sure to check out our Halberg
Ecology Camp page where you'll find details on how kids can
enjoy a summer camp where they can have fun and experience aunique
learning opportunity.
Halberg
Ecology Camp
Students
experience nature, hands-on, at the Halberg Ecology Camp. The
tenative 2008 Camp dates are June 15th - 20th for first session and June 22th
- 27th for the second session. Now you can download an Application
Form for the 2008 Halberg Ecology Camp! [Click
Here For More]
Arkansas Field List
The
2005 bird Field List of Arkansas Audubon Society, the Fiftieth
Anniversary edition, is now available. A copy may be obtained
for $0.50 plus a large, self - addressed, stamped envelope.
(Two copies would require two stamps). Quantity prices are
available.
USPS address:
Helen Parker
14300 Chenal Pkwy # 7473
Little Rock AR 72211
Documentation Supporting Listing in
the AAS Field List
This PDF document provides supporting documentation for the listing of
each species in the Arkansas Audubon Society Field List. Documentation includes photographs,
specimens, recordings, or
written documentation that has been accepted by the Bird Records Committee.
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