Photos from the 2025 Photo Contest

Check out our Field Trips Page to join us on a birding outing.

Review our Birding Hotspots for recommendations of birding locales.

See our "Shorebird Blog & Other News" for updates on opportunities to participate in the shorebird stewardship program.

And an update on our recent successful partnership with FPL & Audubon of Florida's "Plants for Birds" Grant.

“. . . the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.”

David Sedaris

UPCOMING EVENTS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS

Join Us on Our Forthcoming Birding Trips

Celery Fields in Sarasota, August 24

Hawk Watch at the Sanibel Lighthouse, October 5

both led by our own Vince McGrath

In Memorium

Our 2025 Chapter Legacy Award

Jim Rodenfels

colleague, friend, advocate, board member, and more

Registration & Info

How to Make Your Home Bird Safe

During fall and spring migrations, a time when many birds die in window collisions on their journey south. An estimated one billion birds die each year in the U.S. from building collisions, but you can help reduce the fatality numbers.

Check out the video above and our Birds & Windows Page for more information

on what you can do.

Audubon of Southwest Florida Awarded an Audubon Florida/Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) “Plants for Birds” Grant

With other local and state partners, we will assist in repopulating a suitable area of the 70,000-acre CREW property with native orchids.

Audubon of Southwest Florida (ASWF) thanks LCEC for a 2024 Environmental Funding Award to install and monitor housing for purple martins at the CREW Flint Pen Strand. The project will be in partnership with the CREW Land & Water Trust and the FGCU Ornithology Club.

Among the project’s activities will be an educational collaborative workshop for the installation of the housing. The site will then be monitored and maintained by the FGCU Ornithology Club. The chapter is grateful for LCEC’s investment in the community and the natural environment.