• Wingspan, Wednesday Afternoon – *MEMBERS ONLY EVENT

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    Learn about birds and their habitats, food, nests, etc. while playing a competitive game. Wingspan is a card-driven, resource-building board game in which players compete to attract birds to their wildlife reserves. Players spend food resources to add birds, which are represented by 170 individually illustrated cards, to the forest, prairie, and wetland habitats on...

  • Butterflies of the Sarasota Audubon Nature Center

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    A Beginner’s Guide to Butterflies, 1.5 hours – SAS Nature Center and Native Gardens. This comprehensive course covers SAS Plants-Nectar and Host Butterflies they attract Life Stages of Butterflies Mating and Reproduction Annual cycle and survival Attracting butterflies to your garden Tips for Breeding with a cage/hutch Citizen Science Contributions Learn how native plants host...

    $10 – $20
  • Beginning Nature Journaling with Jenny Cherry

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    A nature journal is a lens that focuses your attention, enriches your experiences, and develops your skills as a naturalist. This practice also enhances your observations, curiosity, and joy. Nature Journaling can consist of field notes, field sketches, observations, thoughts, feelings, or anything that captures your curiosity. For this Beginner's art class, Jenny will review...

    $20
  • Evolution of Birds & Taxonomy

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    Learn about the early ancestors of birds, how geology both prehistoric and contemporary has affected bird evolution, and come full circle to today's accepted Taxonomy with a nod to the research and techniques that have brought us to this understanding. Register Here

    $20 – $40
  • Birding 305: Warblers & Similar Species

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    Birding 305 Warblers and Similar Species ID with John Groskopf Saturday, April 4 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Advanced Bird ID focused on Warblers and similar species with John Groskopf. In this comprehensive classroom course you will discover the key identification markers for various warblers and similar species. Meet inside the Nature Center at 5:30 p.m....

    $20 – $40
  • Advanced Nature Journaling with Jenny Cherry

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    For this Advanced art class, Jenny will show how to draw a Purple Martin, especially since we have a large nesting box (like a hotel for Martins!) at the SAS Nature Center. Jenny will discuss Purple Martins and why we have the nesting boxes on site in the first place. We may even have the opportunity to...

    $40
  • Birding 201

    Sarasota Audubon Nature Center 999 Center Road, Sarasota, FL

    Note Birding 101 Classes are Free, Registration will open the first day of the month in which they are offered.

    $10 – $20