Indiana Audubon is hosting a 2024 Indiana Master Naturalist class at Mary Gray Bird Sanctuary this spring. The Indiana Master Naturalist is an opportunity to learn more about the outdoors with weekly topics presented by state experts. The 2024 course meets for eight Friday evening sessions beginning April 4 from...
Love birds? Become a new Indiana Audubon member or gift a membership from Friday, Feb. 16, to Friday, Feb. 23, for a chance to win big. During this one-week new members campaign, which coincides with the Great Backyard Bird Count, one grand prize winner at random will receive a...
Indiana Audubon introduces two new sites to the Indiana Birding Trail, expanding opportunities for birders statewide. With the inclusion of the Cope Environmental Center and Hayes Arboretum, both in Wayne County, the trail encompasses 68 exceptional sites, each chosen for their ecological importance to Indiana’s resident and migrant birds. Cope...
Pay close, dedicated attention. Take a behavior/event and create a project from it to learn all you can through observation, research, and then document it with sketches, photos, and words.
On June 17, 2023, The Dunes-Calumet Audubon hosted a field trip led by Julie Bonnema, with experienced birders Angie Archer and me, among the fifteen participants. It was a beautiful day for birding, filled with old and new birding friends. The day at Kankakee Sands offered perfect weather, with...
“There’s no way we are going to find this thing.” I was sure of it. The trails were packed with tourists, hiking noisily all over the mountain side, completely oblivious to the possibility of a Sooty Grouse—and that there was such a thing as a Sooty Grouse. “Let’s just...
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