Slideshow of Delos McCauley Photos
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Spring 2009 AAS Meeting
This meeting of the Society will be
held at Petit Jean State Park, April 24-26, 2009. Watch this space for additional information.
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.
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.
Click here to download .
Butterflies of Arkansas
A new 2004 checklist of the butterflies of
Arkansas, created by Herschel Raney,
is available HERE (Revised 2004. PDF file - 268k).
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.
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.
Least Grebe discovered
at Centerton on 8/03/08 by Mike Mlodinow and Jacque Brown. First
record for Arkansas. Photo by Joe Neal.
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.
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 the masthead were taken by AAS members Charles Mills,
Robert Herron, Joe Neal, Kenny Nichols, Sally Jo Gibson, Rick Farrar and Lyndal York. 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 a unique
learning opportunity.
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]
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.
