Meetings
October 19, 2022
October Meeting and Program: An eBird Tutorial for Beginners and Beyond!
7:00 pm
Join us for our October Membership Meeting at the Unitarian Universalist Church for a brief meeting and presentation by Lottie Bushmann and friends. Free and open to the public. An eBird Tutorial…for Beginners and Beyond Interested in joining thousands of other birders by inputting your bird data into ebird? Don’t know where to start? A
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May Meeting: Picnic and Potluck
3:00PM-7:30PM
Join us for an evening of camaraderie at Kiwanis Park, West Side Odor Shelter for our annual May picnic and potluck. We’ll go birding at Kiwanis Park beforehand, and then get together for dinner. CAS will provide plastic ware and plates and soda, but otherwise it’s a BYOB. If you want to make this a
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March Membership Meeting — Talk by Tim Scherrer: War Pigeon! Missouri’s role in the training of pigeons and pigeoneers in WWII
7:00 PM
Neosho, Missouri found itself the home to Camp Crowder, a US Army Signal Corps replacement training center, built in 1942. In 1943, the Army Signal Pigeon Corps moved from New Jersey to Missouri and began operations. Camp Crowder became the training and breeding home to the pigeon corps. Several of the ten Signal Pigeon Companies
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Columbia Audubon April Membership Meeting: Sarah Kendrick on Tracking Migratory Songbirds to Inform Conservation Action
7 PM
The Wood Thrush is an iconic bird of eastern forests and a priority for conservation in 25 U.S. states and holds threatened status in Canada. Improving our understanding of the species’ full life cycle ecology, including migration patterns between their breeding and nonbreeding ranges, is essential in order to better understand the species’ conservation needs and
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