Choctawhatchee Audubon Society

Dedicated to the protection of bird and wildlife habitat, environmental education, and a greater appreciation of Northwest Florida’s natural beauty. Terrific resource for adults and kids including monthly programs and bird walks, twice a year migration counts, field trips to banding stations and other prime birding spots, an annual Christmas Bird Count, and special community projects such as the Choctawhatchee Tern Team, canoe cleanups of local streams, and bird counts at local parks to create species checklists.

Choctawhatchee Audubon members want to make a difference in our local community and make contribution to a global awareness of conservation. It is a big job but worthy of at least a little of our time. The Choctawhatchee Audubon Society is a chapter of the National Audubon Society and is a Non-Profit, Volunteer Organization serving Okaloosa and Walton Counties (since 1976).

Join the National Audubon Society and your membership to Choctawhatchee Audubon is free when you designate Choctawhatchee as your Chapter when you join!

Birds and their habitats need your help now. We’re in a race against time — to give birds a fighting chance in a changing world. Your gift is a vital investment in a healthy future for birds and their habitats. We must act now. While there’s still time.

Audubon’s mission is urgent. The open spaces and iconic landscapes that birds need to survive are disappearing at an alarming rate. Birds and their habitats are under attack. We must act now to protect the species and places at risk.

With your help, we can fight back. We can protect birds and the places they call home — as long as we have people like you who will help.

Our MISSION: Choctawhatchee Audubon Society seeks to promote the conservation and wise use of all natural resources with particular focus on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the Earth’s biological diversity.

Core STRATEGY: Focus on conservation of birds, other wildlife and habitats. Engage people in conservation work. Build a decentralized organization and grass roots network. We live in a unique area that contains the highest biodiversity of flora and fauna and is home to more species of plants and animals than any other comparable region in the entire country. Wild birds, which are our primary focus, include many that may not live here permanently but visit our area to rest, possibly nest and raise their young. One of our goals is to make sure that migratory birds can continue to come and have an environment still suited for the purpose of their visit and to educate our transient human population why that is important. Because of our military presence and our tourism, our area has an ever changing population, and, so, education and our awareness campaign never goes away.