Join this USFWS-sponsored Earth Day cleanup at Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge.

On Saturday, April 20, help us remove invasive garlic mustard from a meadow in the refuge. We will partner with Refuge staff, Audubon volunteers and neighbors to make more space in the meadow for native grasses that birds love!

Please join us again for our continuing service project in Monticello Park to help with habitat restoration and trail maintenance. This park is very well attended among birders - so let's pitch in to help keep this park in good shape!

Please join us for a service project in Monticello Park to help with habitat restoration and trail maintenance. This park is very well attended among birders - so let's pitch in to help keep this park in good shape!

This educational event is designed to shed light on the importance of bats in our ecosystem, raise awareness about the threats they face, and empower attendees to take action to protect them.

This program is for anyone who has volunteered for the Audubon Society of Northern Virginia. We want to celebrate you!

Please join us for a service project in Monticello Park to help with habitat restoration and trail maintenance. This park is very well attended among birders - so let's pitch in to help keep this park in good shape!

Join us online to hear game designer and birder Elizabeth Hargrave speak about how she started birding, her journey to create the award-winning game Wingspan, its rise to popularity, and its impact.

The Audubon Society of Northern Virginia is hosting a hands-on introduction to playing a prize-winning bird-themed board game called Wingspan.

We all learned that dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago - but now we know that they are still with us today. Join Douglas Futuyma, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, for a presentation on how birds evolved and continue to evolve.

If you love birds, help them by growing native plants in your yard. Birds cannot live on birdseed alone, but also need to eat native insects - which need native plants for food and shelter.

Bald and golden eagles will be the focus of a presentation on March 2, 2022, by Jeff Cooper, a Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) wildlife biologist.

Nature belongs to all of us! Please join Arlington Public Library for a Zoom chat with renowned birders and naturalists discussing the joys and challenges of their work in the field.

Ornitherapy, or a more mindful approach to the observation of birds, benefits our mind, body, and soul. We’re pushed and pulled in many directions, no matter our age. If we allow birds and nature to slow us down, we are practicing a form of “self-care.”

Join Phil Silas, the Manassas-Bull Run Christmas Bird Count compiler, and members from our Conservation Committee to learn about this long-running citizen science bird survey.

Join us for our November Audubon Afternoon! Our guest speaker will be Dr. Herlitz Davis, will introduce you to the fascinating Avifauna of Jamaica through stories of his life growing up in nature, and through his doctoral research at George Mason University and the Smithsonian Institution.

This FREE workshop will cover a bit of Project FeederWatch history, its purpose, tips for identifying birds, and the protocols to be followed while counting.

Join the Friends of Dyke Marsh (FODM) on October 20, 7:00 PM on Zoom for Greg Butcher’s presentation on wintering waterbirds.

Join Meadowood SRMA and Audubon Society Northern Virginia for the most non-competitive birding event! It’s called The Big Sit! for a good reason - it’s a tailgate party for birders.

Join us for our fall Audubon Afternoon! Our guest speaker will be Sam Hoadley, Manager of Horticultural Research at Mt. Cuba Center.

There is a large variety of butterfly species in our area. Dr. Larsen will focus on identifying the 20 most common butterflies in Northern Virginia at the workshop on 9/16 and follow up with this field trip to survey butterflies in the field.

There is a large variety of butterfly species in our area. Dr. Larsen will focus on identifying the 20 most common butterflies in Northern Virginia.

Join us as we welcome Dr. David Luther to learn how birds adapt their songs to urban environments and what we’ve learned from the quiet of the pandemic.

Join us as we welcome Jane Kim, artist, science illustrator, and the founder of Ink Dwell, a studio that explores the wonders of the natural world.

Join us as we welcome John Magee, award winning landscape designer and host of The Native Plant Podcast.

Join us as we’ll learn how birds stay warm in cold weather and extreme elevations. Sahas is an avian evolutionary ecologist and currently a Peter Buck Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History where he studies how birds stay warm in the high Himalayas.

Join us for our VIRTUAL September Audubon Afternoon featuring guest speaker Amanda Gallinat. Dr. Gallinat is an ecologist who studies how environmental change affects plants, birds and their interactions.

Audubon Society of Northern Virginia will hold its annual membership meeting virtually via Zoom on Sunday, June 7 from 3:00 to 3:15 PM. The membership will vote on incoming Directors and new terms for Officers. After the meeting we will welcome Kristi Odom for our Audubon Afternoon.

MOVED TO WEBINAR! TIME TBD, DETAILS COMING SOON. Join us as we welcome author and blogger, Nancy Lawson. We’ll learn why plants are the solution to everything. That’s the driving concept behind her Humane Gardener book, website and presentations. Whether you’re trying to resolve conflicts with wildlife or immersed in efforts to save local fauna, you’ll be more successful if you let plants lead the way.

CANCELLED On March 21st, Betsy Martin of The Audubon Society of Northern Virginia’s Audubon at Home Program and Linda Beaty of Plant NOVA Natives will join forces to provide a special program on how to make your yard more attractive to wildlife.