Fort Worth Audubon Society (FWAS)

Fort Worth Audubon Society (FWAS) Fort Worth Audubon Society meets the 2nd Thursday of each month (except June/July/Aug) @ 7:00 p.m. Visit FWAS.ORG for a complete program and walk schedule.

All meetings in person, additionally the zoom is available for some. How to become a FWAS Member or simply renew your membership
FWAS memberships run January 1 through December 31. The amount is $25.00 for a single membership and $35.00 for a family membership. To use a credit card, you’ll need to do that online as we do not have a way to process credit transactions otherwise. Simply go to https:/

/fwas.org/membership-dues/, select the membership level ($25 or $35) from the dropdown list, then click on the Pay Now button. If you wish to make a payment in the old-fashioned way, please make a check payable to FWAS and send it to our treasurer Vickie Moore in care of FWAS at 3023 S. University Dr. #206, Fort Worth, TX 76109. Community Civic Grants Available
FWAS offers grants to community civic organizations to fund their projects that fit our mission statement. Our grant cycle is over for this season, but will resume in the Fall for the 2021-2021 season, and we will have a new application available here online as soon as it's made available. Monthly Meetings
The Fort Worth Audubon Society NORMALLY meets the second Thursday of each month from September thru May. 2022-2023 meetings will be a mix of in person and virtual meetings. Please, check out events for specifics. When in-person meetings start up, we plan to meet in Room 100 of the Research and Education Building at the University of North Texas Health & Science Center on 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd. Click on the above link to get more specific detail on location (see "Monthly Meetings" post) as well as announcements about speakers and topics on upcoming meetings. Periodical Newsletters
The latest issue of our newsletter is available for download. Please check out our archive of past newsletters by clicking on the Newsletters tab at top. Board Member Jim Jones has scanned in copies from past years and made them available to all! If you have old newsletters that we are missing, please let Jim know so he can get a copy from you to add to our online archive. Field Trips
Fort Worth Audubon Society Field Trips are open to all, members and nonmembers, beginners to world-class birders. We especially want to encourage and welcome first time birders to come on our local trips in the Fort Worth area. These trips are an excellent way to get started learning the birds and the best locations and seasons to find them. There are always people on these trips who are willing and able to answer any question about birds. Planning a visit to our area? Download a Birding Checklist specific for Tarrant County, Texas. We offer a 12-month Tarrant County Field Checklist, and four seasonal field checklists for Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall (click on the highlighted words to open each PDF document). Seasonal Shopping Reward Programs
Did you know that you can financially help Fort Worth Audubon meet our mission goals by shopping? Several businesses offer reward programs which donate a percentage of your purchases back to local non-profits. We are registered with Kroger, Tom Thumb, and Amazon Smile. Click on Fort Worth Audubon Announcements under the Forum tab for learning how you can register at area stores. For Amazon Smile users, click on their logo on the left side of this window.

In 2025, Lesser Mellow Legs, Ted's Big Sit team counted 105 species on May 8th, putting the team in 1st Place of 15 team...
08/18/2026

In 2025, Lesser Mellow Legs, Ted's Big Sit team counted 105 species on May 8th, putting the team in 1st Place of 15 teams in their region! All levels of experience from bird curious to master birders are welcome. Please, you must, reach out to Ted to participate. email: [email protected]

08/08/2026

It's Saturday and I'm clearly not good at keeping Fun Fact Friday on Friday, lol. I have littles, it's back-to-school time, I get side tracked and forget.

• Mississippi Kites in the southeast lead different lives than kites in the west

• Western M. Kites commonly nest colonially in small prairie woodlands

• M. Kites in the east breed in old growth forests, are less abundant, and not as likely to nest colonially

• Often seen flying just about the tree tops where they catch and eat flying insects on the wing

• Rarely aggressive towards each other, during the breeding season they will be aggressive to humans and other predators

Photo Credit: Brian Frasher

Facts sourced from allaboutbirds.org


Can't wait to see you all at the first FWAS general meeting of the 2026-2027 season.
08/08/2026

Can't wait to see you all at the first FWAS general meeting of the 2026-2027 season.

Join our friends at Audubon Texas and  Native Prairies Association of Texas for this free webinar.
08/01/2026

Join our friends at Audubon Texas and Native Prairies Association of Texas for this free webinar.

This webinar will focus on water management in drought conditions for the benefit of private landowners, livestock, wildlife, and the environment as a whole. Souta Calling Last will discuss strategies and tools to best manage our most valuable, and often most limited, resource. Calling Last will pul...

07/31/2026

Happy Friday!
Here's your Fun Fact Friday post featuring the Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor).

Tree Swallow Fun Facts

• Seen most often in open, treeless areas

• Named for its habit of nesting in... tree cavities

• They winter further north than any other American swallow and they also return long before other swallows

• Most of the nest building is done by the female

• Once made it is lined with feathers of other birds

• In some populations most of the feathers are gathered by the male

• Despite taking readily to nest boxes and their range expanding as more boxes are put up, most Tree Swallows
nest in natural tree cavities that for the last 200 years
have been decreasing in number as more land is clear, and older/dead trees are removed


Photo Credit - Brian Frasher

Dallas Audubon hosting some webinars about Merlin - check them out!
07/12/2026

Dallas Audubon hosting some webinars about Merlin - check them out!

🐦‍⬛ Love using the Merlin Bird ID app? Or curious about how it identifies birds by sound?

Join Audubon Dallas for a special two-part webinar series with **Blaine Carnes**, Merlin Sound ID Project Coordinator for the U.S. and Canada at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Learn the story behind Merlin Bird ID, discover how its Sound ID feature works, and find out how your recordings can contribute to bird conservation.

**Part 1: The Story of Merlin**
https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/WUucWOtiQYu2wu17WdgbKA?os=ipad #/registration

**Part 2: Sound ID – Submit Your Audio Recordings**
https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/Fyrzbee8TR-J72cWopJ0Sw?os=ipad #/registration

You can also find both registration links on our calendar:
https://audubondallas.org/calendar/

We hope you'll join us!

Sure it's warm out, but at 7:30 am with a light breeze the bird walk  at Foster Park this morning was quite comfortable!...
07/11/2026

Sure it's warm out, but at 7:30 am with a light breeze the bird walk at Foster Park this morning was quite comfortable! Did you know that night herons regurgitate pellets (like owls do), do you understand the migration habits of brown thrashers, and have you met Sophie, an Arlington birder who is developing a social birding platform (MyBirdFinder)? If you were at Foster Park with Jean Ferguson this morning you do and you saw 26 bird species. NOTE: In August the Foster Park Bird Walk falls on the 3rd Saturday(15th) 7:30 AM. See you there!

Here's the list

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Mississippi Kite
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
White-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted x Black-crested Titmouse (hybrid)
Barn Swallow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Carolina Wren
Bewick's Wren
European Starling
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
Eastern Bluebird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Northern Cardinal

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3500 Camp Bowie
Fort Worth, TX
76107

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