Missouri Young Birders Club of the Ozarks

05/31/2025

Come out to our First Saturday Bird Hike at the Nature Center! We had such a great experience at our first one. Hope to see you all there ☺️

Our First Saturday Bird Hike is a week away. Join us Saturday, June 7 at 9am!

12/08/2024

Better news than expected! Thanks for all you do!

11/25/2024

We had a wonderful time this evening learning all about turkeys! We were all able to make our own turkey calls too! On our walk, we watched hundreds of vultures kettling, observed an eagle fly over with a fish in its beak, and called a sassy red-bellied woodpecker out. Getting the young birders out into nature and learning about our feathered friends is so much fun 😊

11/04/2024

Thanks to Arts Rolla for creating wonderful projects for our meeting yesterday! The original images inspired our birding artist’s creativity and we saw some fun and unique works. Scratch art and collages inspired by our feathered friends! The arts and birding can help bring communities together 😊

06/11/2024

Calling all young birders! Here is our monthly Zoom meeting info and it looks like it’s going to be great! Has anyone from our Ozarks chapter seen any rare species recently?

Missouri Young Birders Club (MYBC), Zoom Meeting, 6:30 p.m. June 17
Kansas City Community Conservation Educator Tessa Poolman discusses rare bird species in Missouri. A Zoom link to register will be sent to MYBC members one week before the meeting. To join MYBC see: https://moyoungbirders.org/. Non-members may email a request to register to [email protected].

04/28/2024

Our feathered friends are tending to their nests everywhere right now. What have you observed?

Bird nests are hidden gems - literally! Birds do their best to hide their nests from predators, so it can often take some skill and patience for humans to find a bird’s nest. One of the best ways to find a nest near you is to keep an eye out for birds that are carrying nesting material, like this Mountain Chickadee. Watch them through binoculars, and see if they’re returning to the same spot over and over - they’re probably building a nest!

If you're interested in finding nesting birds this spring, be sure to check out our top tips: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/top-three-signs-that-birds-are-nesting-near-you/

[Image description: A small, round bird with a short bill holds a tuft of cottony fiber in its beak, perched on a mossy branch. Text: Mountain Chickadee, Poecile gambeli, By Christine Haines. Cornell Lab | NestWatch.]