Pelican Island Audubon Society offers a series of free field trips each season as part of our mission. We are in the process of contacting trip leaders for this season. Our goal is to provide exciting nature visits to good birding locations that will get people outdoors while keeping one another safe and healthy. Birding offers a wonderful means of experiencing the outdoors, exercising, making new friends, and learning about our local environment. Only by appreciating our surroundings will we be moved to fight to protect them.
All field trips are led by Pelican Island Audubon Society volunteers. Unless otherwise indicated, trips are free and open to the public. If you have a special place you would like to share by leading a walk, please contact the office and we will help with a plan.
We encourage carpooling to trip locations to conserve energy. However, please stay home if you feel poorly or have not tested for Covid-19 recently. We ask that you arrive 10 minutes before start time to get organized, sign in, and greet everyone. To avoid inconvenience of all participants, leaders will begin at the specified start time, explain the area to be visited, and depart the meeting location, not waiting for latecomers. We ask that all participants be respectful towards the environment and their fellow birders.
Participants must sign up for trips on our website. Please be courteous – If you have signed up for a trip but must cancel, notify the Pelican Island Audubon office, Monday – Friday 9AM-1PM, at piaudubon@yahoo.com or at 772-567-3520. Early cancellation allows others on the waiting list to take your place. Also, please inform the office or field-trip leader if you plan to meet at the field-trip site. Keep looking at the field-trip page on the PIAS website for new trips as they are scheduled.