The Columbia Audubon Society’s mission
is to preserve the natural world and its ecosystems, focusing on birds and other wildlife, and the earth’s biological diversity through education, environmental study and habitat restoration and protection.
Hello, All, It has been a busy fall so far with lots of activities. Mostly it’s been an amazing fall migration and I hope you’ve been able to watch some of these traveling birds around your home—the hummers have really been amping up their eating around my feeder, with much less time spent defending. The
Read MoreBelow is an edited version of a Chat article submitted in 2024 by Edge Wade. It is encouraging birders to begin the process of building the bird list for Alspaugh Park, a new Columbia park. It’s easy to forget there are new destinations to explore and report. Put this park on your list of hot
Read MorePrior to the 1700’s, old Native American fields were allowed to seed and likely provided bluebird habitat. However, from the 1700’s through the early 1800’s frontier settlement, farming and timber harvest brought a loss of habitat creating a shortage of nesting sites. Further, the introduction of the non-native House Sparrow and European Starling created an
Read MoreThe Missouri Conservation Corps is teaming up with Shakespeare’s Pizza on Thursday October 8 for a fundraiser benefitting their program to help combat exotics and to assist in ecosystem restoration projects. The MCC is a great partner with CAS–we help one another on exotics removal (especially bush honeysuckle) and showing the public how exotic species
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