The Indiana Audubon Society

Coming Events

Special Board Meeting, July 25, 2009.
Butterfly Count at Mary Gray Bird Sanctuary, July 25, 2009 (or July 26 if it rains). Contact Amy Wilms (wilmsab at muohio dot edu) to participate. Here is the schedule of Indiana butterfly counts.
The Fall Meeting will be held at Indiana Dunes State Park, October 2 - 4, 2009.
The Indiana Audubon Society Bird Survey of Cuba ! March 1 - 12, 2010

Indiana Audubon is currently involved in some major changes to the website and to our methods of distribution of our publications: the newsletter The Cardinal and The Indiana Audubon Quarterly. For this month only, we are making available to members and nonmembers alike the current issue of The Indiana Audubon Quarterly. It contains
- an article on Mergansers and Ruddy Ducks
- the 2008 report of the Bird Records Committee on submissions of sightings of rare birds
- a review of the book Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
and some gorgeous color photographs. Click here to download it as a pdf file.

Wildlife Survey
Ball State professors and grad students have begun their wildlife study at Mary Gray. They would like our help. The first phase will monitor birds, trees, shrubs, and wildflowers at stations throughout the sanctuary. At more than 700 acres Mary Gray is big enough to need several volunteers from Indiana Audubon. If you are pretty good at identifying birds and/or plant species and would like to either help set up monitoring stations or be a wildlife observer, please contact Professor David Leblanc by writing him at dleblanc at bsu.edu. This will be a great way to see more of the sanctuary and help with this valuable research. Time you could give in spring or fall, when university classes are in session, would be most beneficial.
Brooks Hall Nature Center, updated January 12. We received another $1000 grant from Wal-Mart.
Like to make a donation to the Mary Gray Bird Sanctuary? Here's a way to do it.

Participate in the Nightjar Survey.
The new Indiana Audubon Society Summer Field Note Editor is David Ayer. Please send David your field notes, beginning with the Summer 2009 season, to 4042 N. Old State Road, Rockport, IN 47635-9078 or dayerd at yahoo dot com.
Project to replace the green water tower at Indiana Dunes State Park.
Check out the new map of Birding Sites !
Click here to download a gorgeous flyer about the Society that you can post or give to your friends.
Dr. Kenneth Brock's Birds of Indiana has been published in CD form by the Amos W. Butler Audubon Society. It contains a wealth of information encompassing all 409 species of birds known to have occurred in Indiana.
The book History of the Indiana Audubon Society: 1898-1998 by Charles E. Keller is now available online as a Microsoft Word document (7.6 MB) and as an Adobe pdf file (3.1 MB). It is full of old pictures, biographies of the original members and fascinating stories.

Webmaster Richard Patterson, rpatters at math dot iupui dot edu.

Contact information for the Officers of the Society.