As a chapter of National Audubon Society, our purpose is to conduct education, science, and charitable activities to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats.

 
 

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Volunteer Opportunity

Appalachian Audubon’s collision monitoring program under Bird Safe Harrisburg will be taking place from August 15-November 15 for fall migration. We need volunteers to either be monitors or transporters (or both!). Please find more information here.

Help Make your municipality a bird town

We would like to ask our members to reach out if they are familiar with anyone on their township board who might be interested in pursuing Bird Town status.  They can get in touch with Marla Miller or AAS President.

UPCOMING EVENTS & DEADLINES

Saturday 9/27/25

BIRD WALK ON CELEBRATION OF WILDWOOD DAY

Join GLENN MITZEL at Wildwood Lake Park for a morning bird walk.

Glenn will be doing a bird walk on September 27th, 2025 at Wildwood Lake Park at 8AM.

This is part of the Celebration of Wildwood Day which officially starts at 10AM.  We will meet out front of the Olewine Nature Center that morning.  People who attend can then participate in other events that day at the park.

No registration required.

Hope to see you there!

2025=26 Youth Events

Youth Events DETAILS listed at AAS Youth Events.

September 6, 2025 9:00-10:30 Birding at Vincent DiFilippo Nature Preserve

October 4, 2025 9:00-10:30 Birding Cove Mountain Preserve

November 1, 2025 10:00-11:30 Hawk Watch at Waggoners Gap

January 10, 2026 9:00-10:30 Winter Waterfowl at West Fairview Boat Launch

February 14, 2026 10:00-11:30 Winter Birding at Wildwood

March 7, 2026 9:00-10:30 Birding Childrens Lake

April 2026 TBD 8:30-10:30 Haldman Island with Scott Bills

May 2026 TBD 8:30-10:00 Banding with Sandy Lockerman

2025-26 MONTHLY Presentations will be listed in august 2025

Please check out our programs page for more details.

2025-26 Field Trips

Please check out our field trips page for more details.

BIRD-FRIENDLY COFFEE AVAILABLE BY SPECIAL REQUEST

Choose from Regular OR Swiss Decaf, as well as Ground OR Whole Bean.  Send orders to Lorrie at Coffee@appalachianaudubon.org.   

Please check the most recent Kingfisher Courier for the next deadline for ordering.

 
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Light pollution is a serious threat to wildlife. Please help our migrating birds venture to their wintering grounds safely by limiting unnecessary artificial light at night. Please pledge today by following our Linktree in our bio. #lightsout #Ligh
Light pollution is a serious threat to wildlife. Please help our migrating birds venture to their wintering grounds safely by limiting unnecessary artificial light at night. Please pledge today by following our Linktree in our bio. #lightsout #LightsOutforBirds #migration #birdsafe #birdsafeharrisburg Image by Michael Yatsko (@yatsko)
Appalachian Audubon's Bird Safe Harrisburg committee needs your help. Contribute to valuable citizen science that will help create change in Harrisburg. We are in need of drivers to be on-call at 8am to transport injured window-strike victims to We
Appalachian Audubon's Bird Safe Harrisburg committee needs your help. Contribute to valuable citizen science that will help create change in Harrisburg. We are in need of drivers to be on-call at 8am to transport injured window-strike victims to West Shore Wildlife Center as needed. We are also in need of monitors for every day of the week to walk routes between 5:30 and 8am. Volunteers, whether drivers or monitors, are only asked to participate one day per week. Please email birdsafeharrisburg@appalachianaudubon.org with a completed Volunteer Agreement as soon as possible. Volunteer Agreements can be obtained from our collision monitoring webpage (link in bio on our Linktree). The collision monitoring season for Fall 2025 runs from August 15-November 15. Data collected will support reducing skyglow and glare from artificial light at night and address the need for bird-safe glass retrofits in the city. #collisionmonitoring #birdlovers #windowcollision #SaveBirds #volunteer #lightsout #birdsafeglass Image by Anna Reichenbach
Join Thomas Keller, Justin Klingler, and Stefan Karkuff as we tour Justin’s property, “Milkweed Meadows.” Justin Klingler is an ecologist and expert in native plants and planting. Justin has taken a good portion of his property an
Join Thomas Keller, Justin Klingler, and Stefan Karkuff as we tour Justin’s property, “Milkweed Meadows.” Justin Klingler is an ecologist and expert in native plants and planting. Justin has taken a good portion of his property and transitioned it into native plantings from large multi-acre meadows, to beds surrounding his home - all filled with a variety of native forbs and shrubs. Stefan Karkuff is a Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) Avian Recovery Biologist. Stefan will be discuss his work with native plantings and how developing these habitats can make huge positive changes for our native birds here in Pennsylvania. Thomas Keller, Justin’s neighbor and PGC Furbearer Biologist, will be (his own words!) “a glorified parking attendant and tractor driver for the night.” Thomas will provide a brief introduction and talk about the evening plans. Plan to meet by 6pm at: 65 North Old Stonehouse Road, Carlisle, PA 17015 Parking will be in the front field. There will be signs for parking and Thomas will be there to help people get situated. Registration not necessary. Please contact zachrichard021@gmail.com with any questions! #nativeplants #plantsforbirds #meadow #fieldtrip #JoinUs #hayride Common Milkweed image by David Illig/Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Please join us on zoom for our collision monitoring program's Fall orientation! We will be presenting what we found this past spring and will also be reviewing what it entails to be a volunteer as we prepare for our Fall monitoring season, running fr
Please join us on zoom for our collision monitoring program's Fall orientation! We will be presenting what we found this past spring and will also be reviewing what it entails to be a volunteer as we prepare for our Fall monitoring season, running from August 15-November 15. If you are interested in volunteering for this program, please attend! The link to register can be found on our Linktree in our bio. #collisionmonitoring #birdsafeglass #birdsafe #volunteer #VolunteerOpportunity
Appalachian Audubon helped to partially fund the retrofit of Wildwood Park's Benjamin Olewine III Nature Center with @featherfriendly dots to reduce bird collisions! Dots spaced no more than 2 inches apart horizontally and vertically have been shown
Appalachian Audubon helped to partially fund the retrofit of Wildwood Park's Benjamin Olewine III Nature Center with @featherfriendly dots to reduce bird collisions! Dots spaced no more than 2 inches apart horizontally and vertically have been shown to reduce collisions by at least 95%. This is hopefully one of the many projects that our Bird Safe Harrisburg initiative can lend support. The nature center is now leading by example in our community. Thank you to the @dauphincounty_parksrec maintenance staff for working on the installation. Photos provided by Chris Rebert, Park Manager. #birdcollisionprevention #birdsafe #onebillionbirds
Light pollution is a serious threat to wildlife. Please help our migrating birds venture to their wintering grounds safely by limiting unnecessary artificial light at night. Please pledge today by following our Linktree in our bio. #lightsout #Ligh Appalachian Audubon's Bird Safe Harrisburg committee needs your help. Contribute to valuable citizen science that will help create change in Harrisburg. We are in need of drivers to be on-call at 8am to transport injured window-strike victims to We Join Thomas Keller, Justin Klingler, and Stefan Karkuff as we tour Justin’s property, “Milkweed Meadows.” Justin Klingler is an ecologist and expert in native plants and planting. Justin has taken a good portion of his property an Please join us on zoom for our collision monitoring program's Fall orientation! We will be presenting what we found this past spring and will also be reviewing what it entails to be a volunteer as we prepare for our Fall monitoring season, running fr Appalachian Audubon helped to partially fund the retrofit of Wildwood Park's Benjamin Olewine III Nature Center with @featherfriendly dots to reduce bird collisions! Dots spaced no more than 2 inches apart horizontally and vertically have been shown