Chapter Meeting and Program

Name: Chapter Meeting and Program
Start: 2025-04-17T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-17T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Springfield Conservation Nature Center

Schedule

Thu Apr 17 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Springfield Conservation Nature Center | Springfield, MO

Our programs are FREE and the public is welcome to attend!
We meet on the third Thursday of each month, Sep-Nov and Jan-May at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center, 5:30-7:45 pm.
Come at 5:30 pm, Thursday, for refreshments and to socialize. NOTE: program begins at 6:15 pm, followed by the membership meeting at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center, 4601 South Nature Center Way, Springfield, MO 65807.
Join us for a program co-sponsored by the Missouri Department of Conservation's Springfield Nature Center. We are fortunate to host internationally known Kenn Kaufman as our speaker. Please bring your favorite copy of one of his books for an autograph. It would be great if you could bring a copy of his latest book. We hope of have a few copies available for purchase.
Edge of the West: The Birds That Audubon Almost Missed
In the early to mid 1800s, when many North American birds were still being described to science, bird distribution on this continent was poorly understood. For years, no one recognized how abruptly the birdlife changed at the edge of the Great Plains. When John James Audubon passed through Missouri in 1843, on his one big trip west, he was just beginning to figure out some of these patterns. In this program based on a chapter from his recent book, The Birds That Audubon Missed, Kenn Kaufman will talk about that age of exploration, and will show how some discoveries from two centuries ago are still affecting our experience of birding today.