Last Updated:
21 April 2013
The Audubon Society of Kalamazoo
(ASK) has been a part of the Kalamazoo community since
1945, when Kalamazoo area bird watchers decided to
organize. For many years it was the only all-volunteer
nature organization in the Kalamazoo area. Today we are
an active club with members from all birding skill
levels, although many are at the beginner to
intermediate levels.
You are invited to join ASK. By
becoming a member, you will be joining over 300 birders
in southwest Michigan who share an interest in bird
watching, nature and the environment. Your membership
not only entitles you to participate in the activities
listed below, but also makes those activities possible.
Please understand while we are a
local chapter of Michigan Audubon, membership in
Michigan or National Audubon does not automatically
make you a member of ASK. All three organizations share
the common mission of bird conservation, but we are our
own entity.
What we do:
- Offer informative monthly
bird or nature programs
on the 4th Monday of
September-April, except December, at 7:30 p.m. at the
People’s Church, 1758 N. 10th St. in
Kalamazoo.
- Lead over 20 birding field
trips to local and regional natural areas
(September-May).
- Publish an interesting and
informative monthly newsletter (September-June).
- Organize a Christmas Bird
Count and a Kalamazoo County Spring Migration Count.
- Host a potluck and bird walk
at a specially chosen site for the Annual Meeting in
May.
- Purchase and distribute over
40 of the National Audubon Society’s Audubon
Adventures packets to area schools each year.
- Give over 50 free classroom
bird presentations annually to area schools.
- Give bird and butterfly
presentations to adult groups.
- Maintain a lending library
of several hundred bird related books, videos and CD.
- Maintain a local Rare Bird
Alert network.
- Monitor bluebird trails and
help establish and maintain purple martin colonies.
- Actively work on
environmental issues, particularly on the local level.
- Help with stewardship on the
two Michigan Audubon sanctuaries in our area.
- Provide deserving local,
national and international organizations with
donations to help protect birds and their habitats.