If you'd like to be added to our email list to be advised when we're having an event, that may be the likes of a talk at the library or a river/creek clean-up, please send us an email to northportfowl@gmail.com so we can add you to our list. We do not share your contact information. FYI, typically our talks take place October - April.
April 23, 6pm – 7:30pm
North Port Friends of Wildlife will sponsor a talk by Bob Clark at the Shannon Staub Library located at 4675 Career Lane, North Port, FL.
Bob, a member of the Venice Area Audubon Society chapter, will bring us up to date on that chapter - who they are, what they do and will include news of their bird rookery. In addition, he will speak about eBird, Cornell's Lab of Ornithology's bird sighting reporting/tracking website/app (www.ebird.org), including the benefits of using it and how to use it. Currently, North Port has very little statistical reporting input into eBird and we want to change that!
Bob lives in Venice and is very involved in birding and conservation efforts to protect birds and bird habitat. He serves as Venice Area Audubon Society’s representative to Audubon Florida’s Gulf Coast Conservation Committee, serves on the Myakka River Management Coordinating Council and the citizen advisory committee for the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program. He leads bird hikes, heads the annual 120-volunteer Venice/Englewood Christmas Bird Count and serves as a volunteer for the Florida Scrub-Jay “Jay Watch” survey program, beach nesting stewardship effort and the roof-top nest monitoring program for Least Terns. A New Jersey native and graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Bob and his wife, Pam, lived in Indiana for 40 years before moving to Florida full-time five years ago.
April 23, 6pm – 7:30pm
North Port Friends of Wildlife will sponsor a talk by Bob Clark at the Shannon Staub Library located at 4675 Career Lane, North Port, FL.
Bob, a member of the Venice Area Audubon Society chapter, will bring us up to date on that chapter - who they are, what they do and will include news of their bird rookery. In addition, he will speak about eBird, Cornell's Lab of Ornithology's bird sighting reporting/tracking website/app (www.ebird.org), including the benefits of using it and how to use it. Currently, North Port has very little statistical reporting input into eBird and we want to change that!
Bob lives in Venice and is very involved in birding and conservation efforts to protect birds and bird habitat. He serves as Venice Area Audubon Society’s representative to Audubon Florida’s Gulf Coast Conservation Committee, serves on the Myakka River Management Coordinating Council and the citizen advisory committee for the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program. He leads bird hikes, heads the annual 120-volunteer Venice/Englewood Christmas Bird Count and serves as a volunteer for the Florida Scrub-Jay “Jay Watch” survey program, beach nesting stewardship effort and the roof-top nest monitoring program for Least Terns. A New Jersey native and graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Bob and his wife, Pam, lived in Indiana for 40 years before moving to Florida full-time five years ago.
Below shares some fun where a gopher tortoise burrow is being inspected by a young visitor. The City of North Port Public Works department has been great environmental stewards which has been demonstrated by their care to protect the city's tortoises.