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January 2019
April 2019
AOS Spring Meeting
The AOS Spring Meeting will be held this year at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab's Shelby Center, on picturesque Dauphin Island. Highlights include an all-day Friday field trip followed by a Friday night Potluck Get-together. Saturday will include more field trips and an evening banquet with a keynote speaker. Sunday morning you can join the official AOS field trip or bird the island on your own. Join us--everyone is welcome! See the Agenda and Register Now
Find out more »October 2019
AOS Fall Meeting
Join us for the Fall Meeting of the Alabama Ornithological Society on Alabama's beautiful Dauphin Island! Unless otherwise noted, all activities begin or occur at: The Church of the Island, 302 Key Street, Dauphin Island, AL 36528 To register online for the AOS Fall Meeting, click here: https://www.aosbirds.org/2019fall/ Meeting Schedule: Friday, October 11, 2019 7:00 a.m. Field Trip to Fort Morgan Peninsula, East Mobile Bay and Meaher State Park 5:00 p.m. Registration Where: Church of the Island (formerly DI United Methodist Church Fellowship…
Find out more »January 2020
Alabama Ornithological Society Winter Meeting
Auburn University will be the site of the Winter, 2020 AOS meeting, presided over by incoming AOS President Geoff Hill, an ecologist and ornithologist in Auburn’s Department of Biological Sciences. Highlights of the meeting include a tour of the Southeastern Raptor Center, field trips to Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge and West Point Dam and vicinity, and our Saturday night Keynote Speaker, Dr. Scott Rush, of Mississippi State University. The meeting is friendly and open to all who love birds, regardless…
Find out more »April 2020
AOS Spring Meeting Cancelled
The 2020 AOS Spring Meeting on April 17-19 on Dauphin Island has been cancelled because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Those who had already registered for the meeting have been given a full refund. AOS members are urged to keep in touch through AlBirds and this website.
Find out more »October 2020
Birding Your Local Patch (for Charity)
Because we will have no AOS field trips this fall, AOS is sponsoring a “birding near home” event. Each AOS member is encouraged to submit one checklist to eBird from the period October 3 to October 9 and also submit the checklist to Geoff Hill, AOS President (ghill@auburn.edu). Birding does not have to be in Alabama (or even in the US). Go out birding and create a checklist near where you are living. Geoff will compile an Alabama summary and…
Find out more »AOS Virtual Fall Meeting 2020
Because of the Coronavirus pandemic, we are holding our first virtual AOS meeting. During the same Friday and Saturday when we would have gotten together on Dauphin Island, all AOS members are now encouraged to attend activities via the web platform Zoom. On Friday evening, October 9, we will join together via video conference to socialize and say hello. After an hour of hanging out online, we’ll let folks share a few slides of birds and trips or whatever they…
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April 2021
Scott Weidensaul is Featured Speaker for Spring AOS Meeting
Noted birding and naturalist author Scott Weidensaul will be the featured speaker for the Alabama Ornithological Society’s virtual Spring Meeting held April 16-17. To register, click here. Weidensaul has written more than 30 books, including his acclaimed Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, which was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. His newest book, A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds will be published in March. In addition to writing about…
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