Junior Audubon Club
The Portland Junior Audubon Club offers it’s young members a chance to enhance their birding knowledge and their understanding of the natural world. Started in May 2002, the Junior Audubon Club welcomes 2nd-8th graders and their families.
Each month, members are invited to take part in one of three types of activities: family-based, research-based, or field excursions.
Family-based activities encourage kids to root around their house for materials to create things like a bird feeders, bird houses or plant presses. Some of these will involve getting out with friends and family on focused explorations of local wild places.
Research-based activities are invitations to learn more details about some of the local flora and fauna. They involve self guided species profiles and encourage members to conduct in-depth research about the animals and plants that surround us.
Field Excursions are educational field trips to local green spaces and nature-based events and are led by Audubon naturalists and volunteers.
This program is free for all members. If you would like to join the new Junior Audubon Club please download the application form (pdf file) and mail it in. Another great way to stay in touch about events and news related to youth and the natural world is through our kid-specific Facebook page. Please “like” us at http://www.facebook.com/audubonkidspdx
Save the following dates for the next four months and contact us if you are interested in attending these events:
February 4th – 9:00 am - 2:00 pm - Self guided Raptor Road Trip family activity on Sauvie Island
March 16th – 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm – Bird night at the Audubon Society of Portland: Watch videos, make feeders, view some awesome Audubon specimens and talk about ALL things bird related!
April 21st – 10:00 am - 2:00 pm - Earth Day celebration at the Audubon Society of Portland – Celebrate earth day by helping the earth! Learn about native and invasive plants and get your hands dirty! Maybe even take home a native plant of your own from Audubon’s native plant nursery!
May 19th – 10:00 am – 2:00pm - Jr. Audubon outing to the Children’s Nature Fair at Leach Botanical Gardens.
If you have any questions please contact Andrea Constance at aconstance@audubonportland.org or 971-222-6127.
