We meet on the first Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm at the Lion's Field Adult & Senior Citizens Center at 2809 Broadway (Mulberry at Broadway), San Antonio, Texas. 

General Meetings

August 5, Thursday at 7:00 pm
We will hear from two presenters from the Boerne area involved in conservation projects in conjunction with the Cibolo Nature Center. J.W. Pieper will speak to us about the Great Blue Heron rookery project he has had the opportunity to be a part of for several years now and Mary Kennedy will present information from the last Monarch butterfly migration trends and data collected in Texas and how it is being used across the world.

September 2, Thursday at 7:00 pm
Our September meeting will be a screening Ghost Bird, "...a feature length documentary about an extinct giant woodpecker, a small town In Arkansas hoping to reverse it misfortunes, and the tireless odyssey of the bird-watchers and scientists searching for the Holy Grail of birds, the elusive Ivory-billed woodpecker."

The Ivory-billed woodpecker has long been considered the Holy Grail by diehard birders who refused to believe it went extinct over sixty years ago. So when scientists announced that the bird had been found in the swamps of eastern Arkansas, it was celebrated around the world as the rediscovery of a lifetime.

Following the largest recovery effort ever undertaken for a lost species, and despite millions of dollars in funding, Ivory-bills remain as elusive as ever. What can explain the mysterious absence of evidence while sightings by expert birders persist? Ghost Bird brings the Ivory-bill’s blurry rediscovery into focus revealing our uneasy relationship with nature and the increasing uncertainty of our place within it.

Tickets are $5.00 per person. You may purchase tickets in advance by contacting Patsy Inglet at tpinglet@satx.rr.com with "Ghost Bird" in the subject line. They will also be sold at the door as space is available.

Board Meetings

Previous Meeting Topics

July 2010
Sheridan Coffey’s latest excursion to Columbia, South America.

May 2010
Cynthia Gitter, San Antonio Zoo, Attwater's Prairie Chicken Recovery Program

April 2010
Shirley Bartels, Georgina Schwartz and Brian Chandler, A Walk in the Woods, A historical look at the Judson Nature Trails project

March 2010
Ron Huffman, Papua New Guinea: Birds of Paradise and More.

February 2010
Lynn E. Barber, Big Year Birding Adventures Across the US.

January 2010
Craig Hensley, Natural History and Identification of Hill Country Sparrows

December 2009
Annual Holiday Celebration and Potluck Supper

November 2009
Jim Hailey, Birds of Alaska.

October  2009
SAAS Annual Dinner. Dr. Brent Ortego will be our guest speaker, presenting a talk on Texas Ornithological Society Sanctuaries.

September 2009
John Berner will speak on Texas eBird: What's in it for You? What's in it for Science?

August 2009
Cecilia M. Riley, Executive Director of  The Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, will speak on "Linking the Land, Birds, and People of the Gulf of Mexico Region".

June 2009
Dr. M. Clay Green, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Texas State University, will be speaking on "The Reddish Egret: insights into the ecology and behavior of North America’s rarest heron".

May 2009
SAAS member Marcin Kojtka will speak on “My Birding Journey Through Texas”.

April 2009
Lacey Halstead, Executive Director, Headwaters Coalition will speak on "A Virtual Tour of the Headwaters Sanctuary: 11,000 Years of Natural History".

March 2009
Nature photographer Karen Kilfeather will speak on “Collective Personalities Journey to Private Lands for Birding and Nature Photography”.

February 2009
SAAS member Sheridan Coffey will speak on "Mato Grosso, the Amazon, and a whole lot more"

December 2008
SAAS Annual Christmas Party. Join us for our annual holiday celebration! Bring a food item to share, and your favorite 10 bird photos or short video from this year (on CD or flash drive). We’ll eat first and then show the pictures while the photographers narrate.

November  2008
Ron Huffman, SAAS member: “Birding the islands of Polynesia: Tahiti, the Cook Islands and the Tuamotou Atolls.”

October 2008, SAAS Annual Dinner
Award-winning wildlife nature photographer Greg Lasley will be the speaker.

September 2008
Mark Klym, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department: "Wildlife in South Texas into the Future"

August 2008
Josef San Miguel, Curator of Birds at the San Antonio Zoo: "Bird Conservation Program at San Antonio Zoo"

June 2008
Jayne Neal, Park Naturalist with the San Antonio Parks and Recreation Natural Areas will speak on “Habitat Restoration” A Mosaic of Edges.

May 2008
Mark A. Oppelt, President of The Land Heritage Institute will present an “Introduction and Invitation to the Land Heritage Institute.”

April 2008
Andrew Kasner, Ph.D, Director of Bird Conservation and Deputy Director of Audubon Texas, will speak on "State of the Birds: Audubon Texas Bird Conservation Programs".

March  2008  "The Festival of the Cranes at Bosque Del Apache NWR"    
Donnell (Don) Hester will present a program of the 2007 festival including a video prepared by the NWR on the wildlife refuge

February  2008
Malcolm Mark Swan of The Nature Conservancy will present videos of extraordinary birds that he has recorded at Texas locations near and far from San Antonio. Presentation is titled "Wingbeats over Texas: A Montage of Many Birds in Motion".

January 2008
Charlotte Wenger will speak on "Landscape, Flora and Fauna of the Galapagos Islands."

November 2007
Richard Heilbrun from Texas Parks & Wildlife will speak on Bird Conservation and Land Management.

October 2007
SAAS Annual Banquet. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Keith Arnold, TAMU, whose topic will be "Forty Years of Ornithology." He will also offer a book-signing for his new book "Birds of Texas," so bring your copy and/or be prepared to purchase one there! The meal will be catered by Grady's BBQ.

September 2007
Dr. Ben Plummer will speak on Christmas birding in Costa Rica.

August 2007
Willie Sekula will present "Birds and Butterflies of Equador" including his fabulous photographs.

July 2007
No Monthly Meeting this time -- See you in August!

June 2007
SAAS Potluck Picnic at the Judson Nature Trail. The annual potluck picnic, with SAAS providing beverages, ice and paper goods (plates, cups, etc.). During the event we will be holding a used book sale. Members are encouraged to bring used bird and nature books they are no longer using to contribute to the sale. As in the past, members should bring card tables, chairs, picnic food to share and bug spray. Families are encouraged to bring the entire family and check out the Judson Nature Trail during the event.

May 2007
Robin Bowman of Rancho de la Chuparrosa Good Food Farm in Sabinal will be speaking about earth-friendly farming.

April 2007
SAAS member and videographer Mike Sims will premiere his latest DVD “A Video Guide to Birding San Antonio”.

March 2007
SAAS Members Lorna and Dodge Engleman will present a program on their “Birding Adventure in Africa”

February 2007
Sheridan Coffey will present a program on birding western Mexico called "Mangroves to Mountains, a trip from San Blas to Durango".

January 2007
Willie Sekula will present a program on the birds and butterflies of Peru.

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