Upcoming Speakers

These speakers and events will be featured during our monthly meetings, 7pm on the second Tuesday of each month (excluding the dog days of July and August) at the South Texas Botanical Gardens in Corpus Christi. Come join us!

 
 

March 11, 2025

The Sound of Birds: Using Acoustic Monitoring to Examine Avian Elevational Migrations in the Pacific Forest of Ecuador

Ryce Hailes, a master’s student at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi’s Harte Research Institute will talk about using recording devices to investigate how birds migrate from high elevations to low elevations in different seasons in the Pacific forests of Ecuador.

April 8, 2025

Hoekje Scholarship Recipient Presentations

For this meeting, we will gather at the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi in Room 127 at 7 PM to congratulate our AOC Hoekje Scholarship Recipients and hear about the research they are conducting. A birdwalk around campus will precede the meeting.

 

May 13, 2025

AOC Member Photography Showcase

Come bring your photos on a flashdrive for a show-and-tell at our monthly meeting in May. Photos can be related to anything birding! Birds, bugs, other wildlife, even your favorite birders!

 

 

Upcoming Field Trips

Come join us in the field as we explore the bird life around Corpus Christi and beyond!

 

March 15, 2025

Whitecap NPI Preserve

Meet at 12 PM at the Whitecap NPI headquarters at 14353 Commodores Dr, Corpus Christi, TX 78418 to accompany Whitecap staff onto the new preserve in-development within the new housing development being constructed along Aquarius and Commodores. This is a great opportunity to tour a new nature preserve as it is being created.

RSVP to Liam Wolff (706) 607-0229 or liamgwolff@gmail.com by March 12th.

https://whitecaplivingnpi.com/whitecap-nature-preserve/

 

March 29th

Rockport, Texas

Please RSVP to Susan Foster (idratherbebirding@gmail.com) before the field trip! Susan will lead the club around Rockport birding hotspots.

Meet at the corner of Business Hwy. 35 and Henderson St. (2828 TX-35 BUS, Rockport, TX 78382) to carpool from there. Meet at 8 AM.