Pelican Island Audubon Society
Serving Indian River County since 1964
Category: President’s Hoot
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Celebrating a new home after 50 years of being homeless!
The President’s Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.May 2015 What an amazing opening for our Audubon House! The building and our 50th Birthday Party certainly turned out even better than I had ever envisioned, and proves we can do great things when we work together. We have many good things to do in the future: raise…
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Our 2015 Audubon Heroes
The President’s Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.April 2015 Many folks have contributed to the success of our chapter, hundreds of volunteers participated in our rallies, developed courses, birding field trips, wrote grants for funding, continued our ongoing projects, and helped finish the Audubon House. At our annual meeting on March 16, 2015 we recognized the…
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Welcome to Subirdia
The President’s Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.March 2015 Will Johnson, age 14, sent a wonderful email describing the birding opportunities he has discovered in his new Indian River County neighborhood . He describes his area as having “many small houses with very little vegetation” with “only a couple of oak trees that probably are too…
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It is not just Polar Bears in trouble! What birds tell us about Climate Change
The President’s Hootby Richard H. Baker, Ph.D.February 2015 Since 1500, over 190 species of birds have become extinct. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recently_extinct_birds). That rate is increasing. Approximately 1,200 are considered to be under threat of extinction of the world’s 10,000 bird species. The National Audubon science team’s seven-year study found that more than half of U.S. bird species…