AAS Spring 2019 Convention

The 2019 Spring Convention of the Arkansas Audubon Society (AAS) will be held May 3–5, 2019 at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute (WRI) on Petit Jean Mountain. Hotel rooms are available at the WRI at a rate per night + tax of $99 in the President’s Lodge and $89 everywhere else. To reserve a room call the Institute at 1-866-972-7778. For additional information on lodging  download the agenda, field trips and registration forms.

The special guest speaker for the convention is Benjamin Vogt  who will conduct two sessions on using native plants in garden design with respect to attracting birds.

AAS ON "WILDMAN" STEVE WILSON RADIO PROGRAM.  On January 2 Arkansas Audubon Society Officers Samantha Scheiman and Lyndal York were interviewed about birds, birding and AAS on the "Call of the Wild " radio program over the Arkansas Radio Network. If you missed the program, you can download and listen to it. This is a zip  file that you save on your computer and then extract the 3 program segments.

Report From the Fall 2018 Convention

    The meeting was held at the Arkansas Convention Center at the Holiday Inn in Texarkana on Oct. 5-7.   The Friday evening dinner speaker was Kevin Morgan from Louisiana (left) who spoke about the history 

 of wintering hummingbirds in Louisiana.  The Saturday evening dinner speaker was Charles Lyon ( right) from Shreveport, La who described the discovery of rare  as well as high numbers of wintering waterfowl in the rice fields and reservoirs of SW Miller County.

    Numerous field trips around the area were held on Friday afternoon and Saturday.  The total number of species seen was 121.

 

Searching for Nelson's Sparrows at Bundrick Farms

  Sunday field trips were to Bundrick Farms, AR and to Red Slough WMA in OK.

    The Arkansas Audubon Trust awarded $5,960 in grant funds to support the research of five students. Read More

     The spring convention will be held May 3-5 at the Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain. Watch this page for details as they are developed.

Send us information on your rare bird discoveries!
Use our e-mail connection for submitting your records of rare or out-of-season bird observations to the AAS Curator.

 
Checklists of the Birds of Arkansas
2015 AAS  Checklist of the birds of Arkansas is 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. 

Species added to the checklist since the 2009 publication can be found here .  Included in this list are photos and documentation of each species.

If you would like 15 copies or more of the new 2018 checklist, email us  at arbirds0 at gmail.com. Single copies are available at AAS conventions.

Documentation Supporting Listing in the AAS Field List
This PDF document provides the type of supporting documentation for the listing of each species in the Arkansas Audubon Society Field List. 

For a list of new species added to the AAS Field List since 1986 click here . Each species page contains a photo and a summary.