Please join us for our next monthly meeting on Thursday, February 2nd at 7pm. The meeting will be held at Sandy Creek Nature Center in Athens, and will feature a talk by Dr. Sprih Harsh, a postdoctoral researcher at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at UGA, about her research on ring-necked pheasants in agricultural landscapes in South Dakota. We hope to see you there!

Happy New Year! We are kicking off the year by hosting a fantastic talk by Mr. Bill Steiner about the life and artwork of John James Audubon, the namesake of the Audubon Society. The meeting will take place on Thursday, January 5th at 7pm at Sandy Creek Nature Center in Athens, GA. Please see below for a description of the talk.

Please join us for our monthly meeting on Thursday, December 1st at 7pm at Sandy Creek Nature Center. The meeting will feature a talk by Taylor Maddalene of the UGA Circularity Informatics Lab. Please see details below. 

(Photos by: Taylor Maddalene)

Please join us on Thursday, November 3 at 7:00pm at Sandy Creek Nature Center in Athens for our next monthly meeting. Our featured speaker will be Daniel Crescenzo, who is the Stewardship Coordinator for the Oconee River Land Trust. He will be speaking about the role of conservation easements in protecting the Upper Oconee River Watershed. Hope to see you there!

Please join us on Thursday, September 1st for our September kick-off meeting at UGA's Odum School of Ecology auditorium! The meeting will feature a talk by Dr. Richard Hall about the joys of backyard birding. Doors will be open at 6:30pm with the talk starting at 7pm. There will also be a silent auction along with light refreshments. We strongly encourage participants to wear masks at the event. Please see below for more details about the talk and the speaker.

(Photo credit: Richard Hall)

Please join us for our February meeting where Dr. Sarah Guindre-Parker will be giving a talk titled "Starlings in the city: how a common bird copes with urbanization". The meeting will be held on Thursday, February 3rd at 7pm over Zoom.

Due to the current surge in Covid cases in Athens and nationwide, Oconee Rivers Audubon Society will move its monthly meeting to Zoom. The meeting is on Thursday, January 6 at 7pm. During the meeting, Sara Watkins, a graduate student at UGA's Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources will be talking about research on the Wild Turkeys in Gerogia currently taking place. Aside from providing an overview of the project, she will delve into past and current research as well as recent advances such as using genomics to understand Wild Turkey social network, and exploring acoustic data using neural network approach.

Please join us for our monthly meeting in person on December 2nd at 7:00 p.m. at Sandy Creek Nature Center. Masks will be required for attendance. This month's speaker will be Dr. Charles van Rees, who will be talking about the conservation story of the ‘Alae ‘Ula (Hawaiian gallinule). Please see below more details.

Photo by: Lyle Rains. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Please join us for the 2021 Vulture Festival on Saturday, October 9th 2021! The festival is hosted by Athens-Clarke County Solid Waste Department and will be held at the Athens-Clarke-County Landfill (map). The event features bird walks led by members of the Oconee Rivers Audubon Society, as well as educational activities, guided tours of the facilities at the landfill, live birds-of-prey demonstrations, and more! Please visit the event website for a detailed schedule: https://www.accgov.com/6785/Vulture-Festival. If you would like to volunteer for the event, please register here: https://givepul.se/z9gjl7

we hope to see you there!

Artwork designed by: David Hale

We are excited to announce that the Oconee Rivers Audubon Society will be hosting a fundraiser from 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. on Thursday, September 16th at Southern Brewing Company (map) in Athens, GA. The event will feature live music and a percentage of the proceeds will go directly to Oconee Rivers Audubon Society. Tickets can be purchased on site or online (https://bit.ly/SBCSept16). Mention Oconee Rivers Audubon Society for a discounted ticket price ($5).