The Spring meeting will be held from May 18-20 in Live Oak, about halfway between Gainesville and Tallahassee. This will be an exciting kickoff event for Florida's Second Breeding Bird Atlas. Please click here for more details and registration information.

Southeast Partners in Flight is pleased to announce the launch of a new field guide to bird monitoring protocols and programs. The guide is targeted at researchers, land managers, and biologists in the southeast bird conservation community and beyond.

The Winter 2012 FOS Snail Kite Newsletter is now online. Please email all article submissions for the next newsletter to the Snail Kite Editor.

Hope everyone enjoyed the 2011-2012 Audubon Christmas Bird Counts. To those who participated, thanks for your help.

FOS welcomes its new Snail Kite Newsletter editor, Selena Kiser. Many thanks to our past editor Tom Palmer for his years of service.

Hope everyone enjoyed the Fall Meeting at Dauphin Island in Alabama. Check back for information about the Spring 2012 meeting

The second annual Statewide Bluebird Blitz will take place on Friday November 18 and Saturday November 19, 2011.

 What is a Bluebird Blitz? The Statewide Bluebird Blitz is a concentrated effort by as many volunteers as possible going out all over the state of Florida on specific dates to locate as many Eastern Bluebirds as possible.

Corrections have been made to the official Florida State List. The current list is now up to 512 species. The latest PDF, DOC, and XLS files are available from the Records Committee State List page.

The Great Florida Birding Trail has a new name! The program is now called the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail (GFBWT). The newly-updated Panhandle section guidebook is now available, and the revised East guidebook will be ready later in 2011. Both feature information on butterfly watching and other wildlife viewing opportunities, as well as improved maps, color photos, GPS coordinates, street addresses, and much more. The Birding Trail’s road signs and website address www.floridabirdingtrail.com will remain the same.

Andy Kratter, Ornithology Collections Manager for the Florida Museum of Natural History, has prepared a Sparrows and Look-A-Likes Skins Quiz. Test your identification skills. Click here to take the quiz.  And Good Luck.