The Birmingham Audubon Society and the Birmingham Zoo invite you to enjoy a morning of birdwatching at the Tom Imhof Zoo Birdwalk through the Alabama Wilds at the Birmingham Zoo on Saturday, February 18. Please enter through the Zoo’s iron gate (breezeway) of the Children Zoo. You can see this area from the parking lot.
When: Promptly at 8am
This event is free for everyone.
The tour will proceed through the Alabama Wilds and into some non-public areas that are great viewing spots for many bird species. Please bring your binoculars, scopes, or cameras and prepare to have fun while watching and learning about birds and birdwatching with local birders. Trip leaders are Greg Harbor from the Birmingham Audubon Society and Jamie Nobles from the Birmingham Zoo. More information can be found at the Birmingham Audubon Society website at www.birminghamaudubon.org.
Also on February 18, The Birmingham Zoo invites you to the fifteenth annual Great Backyard Bird Count. The event is for all members and paying visitors. The GBBC is an annual 4-day “citizen science” event developed by Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Audubon Society which engages bird watchers from coast to coast to count and record their data.
When: 10am-4pm
The Birmingham Zoo is home to many resident and migrating birds in Alabama Wilds. This event starts at Grandma’s Back Porch in the Children’s Zoo. There will be many bird-related activities from using binoculars and field guides to making bird feeders and even special visits from native birds within the Zoo’s collection. Join us and meet birding experts, local Audubon Society members and others as they answer your birding questions and demonstrate how to record your own backyard bird count. For more information about the 2012 GBBC go to www.birdsource.org/gbbc/.
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