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Free Third Thursday at the Trinity River Audubon Center - Dallas

Thursday May 17th FREE Admission all day 9am-9pm

How Birds Work

Join our monthly FREE Third Thursday event. 

We’ll have guided hikes and animal encounters throughout the day.  Evening activities include: Special guest speaker,Dr. Patty McGill, director of Dogwood Canyon and Trinity River Audubon Centers presenting How Birds Work at 7PM.  

From singing to swimming, from incredible powers of sight and hearing to the extraordinary ability to soar through the sky, birds are amazing.  But how do they achieve these incredible feats? Join us for a closer look at the bird body and the physical adaptations that allow birds to migrate great distances, navigate through the night sky, and return to the same wintering and breeding grounds each year.  

 At 8PM accompany Audubon Texas, Director of Education, Ben Jones, into the Great Trinity Forest on an Owl Prowl. 

Books and Bugs - Dallas

Books 'N Bugs
May 10, 2012 from 11 am - Noon

Come join the Butterflies & Bugs for storytime! We'll have fun as we make crafts, read the book and have a themed snack! The session ends with our daily noon butterfly release. $10 per Child; $8 per TDG Member Child. Adults pay regular admission.

http://texasdiscoverygardens.org/events_and_classes.php

Questions? Contact our program manager at (214) 428-7476 x 240  or programs@texasdiscoverygardens.org for details on classes and events. To register over the phone, call (214) 428-7476 x 343.


High Flyin’ Fun Sleepovers - Dallas

HIGH FLYIN’ FUN AFTER DARK SLEEPOVERS
May 11 and 12, June 22, July 21 and August 4
MNS Science Building (1318 South Second Avenue in Fair Park)

Discover the science of flight from super heroes to helicopters to pterosaurs during this night of high flyin’ fun. This event includes the award-winning IMAX® film Flying Monsters.

Experience the wonders of the world like never before with plenty of adventure that unfolds under the cover of night. Enjoy a late-night pizza snack, auditorium show, hands-on workshop, exhibit tour, scavenger hunt through exhibits, continental breakfast in the morning plus an eye-opening IMAX® film!

High Flyin’ Fun Sleepovers are geared toward children 6-12 years old.

Free First Thursday at Dogwood Canyon - Cedar Hill

May 3, 9:00AM – 9:00PM

Enjoy FREE admission all day and join us throughout the day for guided hikes, animal encounters, and children's arts & crafts activities.

http://tx.audubon.org/Dogwood.html 

Located 16 miles south of downtown Dallas in Cedar Hill, Dogwood Canyon is part of the White Rock Escarpment. Nowhere in North Texas can one find a greater variety of rare species than in Dogwood Canyon. Plants and animals from east, west and central Texas converge here, making the Canyon the only place in the world where one can find the Black-chinned Hummingbird of west Texas nesting in the flowering dogwood tree of east Texas.

FREE - Planet Shark Speaker Series - Dr. Simon Thorrold - Dallas

*FREE PLANET SHARK SPEAKER SERIES
“Leviathans Three: Tracking the Mysterious Movements of Planet Ocean’s Largest Sharks”
Speaker: Dr. Simon Thorrold

Wednesday, May 9 from 7-9 p.m./Planet Shark: Predator or Prey traveling exhibition open to lecture attendees from 5-7 p.m.
TI Founders IMAX® Theater, MNS Science Building (1318 South Second Avenue in Fair Park) 

Presented in partnership with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), MNS brings you experts in exciting fields of oceanography with Planet Shark Speaker Series. Listen to and engage with industry experts in various fields of oceanography.

International Migratory Bird Day Festival at Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center - Cedar Hill

International Migratory Bird Day Festival at Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center

Saturday May 12, 2012  

9:00AM – 5:00PM

Admission $3.00 (kids under 3 yrs free)

Celebrate our migratory birds and learn more about what you can do to help them during their amazing journey across the Americas. This event features fun activities for all ages, including kids’ crafts and activities, a live falcon, guided hikes, and a warbler identification class.

Native Plant Walk at Southwest Nature Preserve - Arlington


Native Plant Walk at Southwest Nature Preserve, Arlington

Master Naturalists Jan Miller and Jim Varnum announde they will be conducting a native plant walk at Arlington's Southwest Nature Preserve on Saturday, April 21 at 2:00 PM.  Southwest Nature Preserve is a 60-acre natural area with forest, meadows, sandstone outcrops and a lake.  Consider it an oasis of natural-ness in the DFW Metroplex.

We might see Common woodisa fern (Woodsia obtusa), Engelmann's Adder's-Tongue fern Ophioglossum engelmannii), Butterfly weed (milkweed) (Asclepias tuberosa subsp), Whorled milkweed (Asclepias verticillata), Common least aster (Chaetopappa asteroides), Sicklepod (Arabis canadensis), Farkle-berry (Vaccinium arboreum), Bottle brush (Plantago aristata), Flameflower (Talinum sp.), Texas toadflax (Nuttallanthus texanus), Glen Rose yucca (Yucca necopina).  It's a Rare plant of Texas!  And many others.

Trinity Bird Count - Dallas

The Trinity Bird Count is an exciting new effort to count every bird species in and along our Trinity River in Dallas! Birds are among the most beautiful and intriguing visitors and residents of the forests, grasslands, river banks and neighborhoods along the Trinity River.

This year, the Trinity Commons Foundation begins an exciting new project to learn about the Trinity's birds – the Trinity Bird Count. With 636 of the 957 bird species in North America, Texas is for the birds! Come enjoy the Trinity and help investigate the birds that live along the Trinity or that visit here during their migration.

The Trinity Bird Count is underway! Here are the next opportunities to join us in the count! 

Area #3 - Levee B – Lake Cliff Park, on June 23, 2012, from 8:00 – 11:00 a.m.. Meet at Lake Cliff Park. Click here for parking location.

Birding On Your Own

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