Meetings, activities and announcements
- SPECIAL EVENT - A Presentation on The Hunt for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
- Bird Photos Needed for March 2010 Meeting!
- CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Members needed for an Education Committee
LAS has been blessed with a group of enthusiastic members who volunteer for numerous projects throughout the year. Usually a phone call or an e-mail to the membership has been the method by which we've recruited such people. However, LAS would now like to establish a formal Education Committee, with several subcommittees, so we can more efficiently administer and organize our educational outreach efforts. We are looking for people like you who would be willing to serve in such a capacity. Our Vice-President, Alan Gubanich, has agreed to serve as the overall Chair of the committee, but he is looking for volunteers to staff several possible subcommittees: In-House Education subcommittee (for educating our members about conservation issues); Outreach Education subcommittee (for adults in the community); Classroom Visits subcommittee (for school kids); Classroom Field Trips subcommittee (trips for school kids at places such as Washoe Lake, Swan Lake, and other locations); Special Events subcommittee (Spring Wings; Tune-In-To-Kids; Earth Day; talks at various nurseries; etc.). If you are interested and willing to chair or serve on any of these subcommittees, please contact Alan at aag@unr.nevada.edu or (775)-857-0191. Your participation will be greatly appreciated. The more volunteers we have the more outreach we can provide to our local community and especially to our youth, our hope for the future.
- Reports of Trips and Events - Please visit the Reports page page on our site. The page includes a short synopsis of LAS sponsored Field Trips and other LAS Events accompanied by photos.
- Monthly Meetings- Held every fourth Tuesday September through May, 6:30 pm (social), 7:00 pm (program meeting). Please visit the Meetings page for details.
- Field Trips- A great way to view and learn about birds in our area. They are free for Audubon members and non-members. Birders of all skill levels are welcome to participate. Please visit the Field Trips page for more information.
- Birds & Books - Would you like to share your love of bird and books with others? If so please visit the Birds & Books page.
- LAS Info Line On-Line – Need to contact LAS for information? Please contact Info Line Manager Jacque Lowery at wbureno@sbcglobal.net
- Read postings to the Nevada Birds List Server to find out what's been seen throughout Nevada. To Join the Nevada Birds List Server visit this link
- For comments, suggestions, errors on the website please contact the LAS Webmaster Steve Ting at scting@charter.net
LAS has been given a unique opportunity to hear about the possible discovery of the long-thought extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker from one of the persons who claims to have actually seen and videotaped this elusive bird. Mr. Bobby Harrison, from Hunstville, Alabama, will show his video and talk about the search for the woodpecker in a special presentation for LAS. For more information please visit the Meetings/Events page. Event will be held at the Moana Lane nursery (Moana Lane location) in the education building. Social 6:30PM - Talk 7:00PM
If you missed the Bird ID Panel last March you missed one of the highlights of the season. You won't want to miss it this year! Members of the audience said they learned so much, and had so much fun, that they want to do it again. So our panel of "experts" have agreed to return on March 23 and once again try to identify those photos of birds submitted by you, our LAS members. So, if you have any decent (or even just relatively decent) photos of birds that you'd like to submit (either digital or 35 mm slides), send them to Alan Gubanich at aag@unr.nevada.edu (or call him at 857-0191). As he did last year, Alan will compile them into a Powerpoint presentation and show them to the panel one by one. Then we will all sit back and once again see if our local experts can agree on the species identification, and explain why they think as they do. Here's another chance for all of us to learn some of the secrets of bird ID!
NOTE: Here are the rules for photo submissions!
Members of last year's audience and the panel members all agree that they would prefer to NOT have photos of exotic or non-native birds. So please confine your submissions to species that would normally be found in the Nevada/California area (or at least be common to most of North America). The plan is to make the evening a good learning session for those of us who would like to discover the "secrets" of bird ID. That doesn't mean you can only submit photos of easy birds. Difficult species are definitely in demand, too! Otherwise, how would we improve our birding skills?
SO: If you submit any photos, please accompany them with your name and a date and location for each photo. If you don't know exact details, approximations will be OK (ex: late April on the northern CA coast; or, early February about 30 miles north of Las Vegas; etc.). THANKS. And come join us on March 23 for another fun night!
The Lahontan Audubon Society a chapter of the National Audubon Society, based in Reno and serving all of northern Nevada, represents over 1,000 memberships of conservation-minded individuals and families.
We seek to help restore, preserve, and improve habitat for birds and other wildlife and to provide education about birds and their habitats in Nevada and adjacent areas of California.
Our other primary activities include guided birding trips for the public and for school groups, site clean-ups and improvements, annual birding classes, and Christmas Bird Count. We publish occasional position papers on key Nevada conservation area issues, and we participate in or partner with various Nevada conservation agencies and groups.
Our newsletter The Pelican and the Audubon Nevada Birds List Server disseminate Nevada birding information.
Our flagship conservation effort is our Nevada Important Bird Areas program, headed by Director of Bird Conservation Robin Powell, part of a hemispheric program to identify and preserve key bird habitat areas.
We invite your involvement or membership.
Lahontan Audubon Society
P.O. Box 2304
Reno, NV 89505
Information Line 775/324-BIRD (2473)