RAPTOR QUEST. CHASING AMERICA’S RAPTORS

LVAS HOSTED THIS Zoom PRESENTATION on October 10, 2025 at 7 pm Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

Scott Harris, Wildlife Photographer and Author of “Raptor Quest” takes us on his journey to find all 53 of the Raptors that call the lower 48 states home. He’ll share his adventures, misadventures, successes and failures during his 17 months of traveling more than 100,000 miles across 34 states. In Scotts words, “It’s about the raptors of course, but it’s also about the people I’ve met and the things I’ve learned.”

If you missed the presentation, you can access the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40vlZ_767j8

LVAS at the Upper Perkiomen Bird and Wildlife Festival

We had 253 visitors to our table!

Thank you to our volunteers Dan Pokras, Diane Rudolph, and Chris Sipos for covering the table!

LVAS also had a table at the Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology meeting at the same time.

Thank you to Matt Docalovich from the Alaska Wilderness League for helping cover that table and talking to people about the Arctic defense campaign. A good reminder to everyone that many of our birds depend on Arctic breeding grounds and we must speak out to preserve their habitats under threat from Federal legislation. (Photo by Leigh Altadonna.)

LVAS at Upper Perkiomen Bird and Wildlife Festival

7 Communities Reached with Birding Backpacks

The Emmaus Public Library is the newest home to birding backpacks donated by LVAS!

Each kit contains a pair of Kowa binoculars, a field guide and common bird ID sheet, instructions on how to use binoculars in English and Spanish, and a guide to local parks.

We previously supplied kits to Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton. This summer we expanded our program to Nazareth, Palmerton, and Parkland, and now we’ve included Emmaus.

Be sure to let your friends, neighbors, teachers, and others in these municipalities know that they or their children can check out a kit and give birding a try!

LVAS Birding Packpack Program Continues

Carla Derck

Originally Published in January - March 2025 Quarterly Newsletter of The Lehigh Valley Audubon Society

The success of the LVAS birding backpack program continued this past fall with four kids’ backpacks presented to the Bethlehem Public Library on December 9, 2024. A collaborative grant from the National Audubon Society helped fund the expanding program.

At the suggestion of the library, a new item was added this time – a journal in which borrowers can record what, where and when they see birds. The journal remains with the backpack for future borrowers to reference and add their own sightings. The program has been so well-received that we may be expanding it to more area libraries in the future.

Photo of LVAS Board Member, Carla Derck, delivering Birding Backpacks to Bethlehem Public Library

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Read about more of our past activities in our newsletter archives.

Spring Warblers – Heads AND Tails

Presented By:

Dave DeReamus, Lehigh Valley Audubon Society Member

Friday, April 11, 2025, 7pm

IN-PERSON PROGRAM

At the Dorothy Rider Pool Wildlife Sanctuary (Wildlands)

Air Products Education Building

3701 Orchid Place

Emmaus, Pa. 18049

Prothonotary Warbler late April 2023 Photo by Dave DeReamus

How many times have you been frustrated because you saw a warbler near the top of a tree and got such a poor look at the head and wings that you couldn’t identify it?

But you probably got good views of the underside of the bird----the throat, the breast, the belly, and especially, the under-tail coverts and the tail.  Many birders concentrate on a warbler’s head pattern for identification.  And it IS important in most cases.  But many don’t realize that the tail area of warblers can be a big help with identifying them, as I will hope to show you during this program.

Hope you can join us as LVAS’s Dave DeReamus gets us prepared for our Spring Birding Outings!

Let us know you’re coming &/or invite others to join us on these walks through our Meetup, Facebook, Instagram or by sharing this page.

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Black-throated Green Warbler photo by Dave DeReamus

COSTA RICA FROM SEA TO SUMMIT Presented by Dr. Terry Master

Learn with Lehigh Valley Audubon Society when we host an

online presentation by Dr. Terry Master:

COSTA RICA FROM SEA TO SUMMIT

Friday, February 21, 2025 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

"Costa Rica has over 900 species of birds in an area the size of West Virginia, almost the same total as the U.S. and Canada combined!

Such high diversity is largely the result of an extremely varied topography resulting in Costa Rica having 12 of 36 major biomes found throughout the world. It is possible to go from sea level to over 12,000 ft. in a distance of only 30 miles.

This program highlights bird species, including their ecology and behavior, characteristic of different elevations throughout this amazingly diverse country."

Please register for a fascinating evening, by clicking the link below.  Note:  You may register at any time up to the start of the meeting.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://muhlenberg.zoom.us/meeting/register/3o5Lt3_dRIOIF8rl653pHg

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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