We meet on the first Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm at The
First Tee, 915 East Mulberry Ave, San Antonio, Texas.
February 2, 2012, 7 PM
Avie and April Grunspan will speak on Birding in Cuba
The Grunspans participated in a U.S. Government approved birding survey in Cuba
in March, 2011. They traveled throughout the country for two weeks, birding
Cuba's many pristine natural areas. They
saw 25 and heard one of the current 28 endemic bird species (possibly increasing
in the next few years as more species are split). They were also fortunate to
meet Orlando Garrido, Cuba’s leading ornithologist, and hear his perspective on
the birds of Cuba.
Board Meetings
Previous Meeting Topics
January 2012
Iliana Pena, Texas Audubon Director of Conservation, on the Important Bird Areas Program.
December 2011
Annual Holiday Celebration
November 2011
Annual Dinner: Moez Ali, Wildlife of Kenya
October 2011
Ron Huffman, PhD will speak on Bird Watching in India
September 2011
Troy Murphy on The Evolution of Ornamentation in Female
Birds.
August 2011
Rufus Stephens on Management of Texas Lands: Tips and Strategies
July 2011
Mike Quinn on What Do Warblers Eat?
June 2011
Mark Klym on Hummingbirds and their Habitats.
May 2011
Danny Najera spoke on Honey Bee Communication and Cognition.
April 2011
Ben Eldredge spoke on Citizen Science and research projects at the Cibilo Nature
Center.
March 2011
Cathy and Gordon ILLG, professional wildlife photographers and tour guides
from Colorado spoke on “Dynamic Bird Photography.”
February 2011
Birds of the Texas Hill Country with Bill Lindemann
January 2011
Birding in the Land of OZ! with Bob Doe
December 2010 Annual Dinner
Join us for a fun filled evening on Thursday, December 2, at
6:30pm for our annual dinner at the San Antonio
Zoo, 3903 N. St. Mary’s St. San Antonio, TX 78212. Award winning and published
photographer, Rolf Nussbaumer, will be our guest speaker for the evening.
November 2010
SAAS member Ben Plummer will be sharing photos and stories from his
summer (2010) trip to South Africa.
October 2010
Member Showcase Slideshow:
Members are invited to bring 10-12 photos electronically (on CD or USB flash
drive) to be shown during the meeting. We will also be having a finder-food
potluck, so bring snacks to share.
September 2010
A screening
of
Ghost Bird
August 2010
J.W. Pieper will speak on the Great Blue Heron rookery project and Mary Kennedy will
present information from the last Monarch butterfly migration trends.
Both conservation projects are in conjunction with the Cibolo Nature Center.
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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