Welcome to the Bird Study Group
The Bird Study Group is a northwestern Louisiana organization of birders based in Shreveport. The Bird Study Group offers field trips, bird discussions, a bird sighting database, and other programs for people with an interest in birds. Regular meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month except June, July and August.
The next meeting of the Shreveport Bird Study Group is scheduled for Tuesday, October 14, 2025, @ 6:30 p.m., at the LSUS Museum of Life Sciences, located next to the old KDAQ radio tower. Signs will be out to direct you. Reminder: We will meet in the Museum, not the Annex.
Local birder JD Flores will provide a program on “Beach-nesting Shorebird Monitoring of the Lower Texas Coast.”
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program (CBBEP) and its partners work to establish ongoing management strategies to increase the survival and reproductive success of declining coastal breeding bird species. This is done by collecting and analyzing bird demographic data. The demographic data CBBEP and partners collect help land and natural resource managers better manage sensitive habitats that support declining species such as beach-nesting birds. JD will provide more insight on how the data gets collected and some recent population trends of our beach-nesting shorebirds along the Lower Texas Coast.
JD Flores is a birder/naturalist and an aspiring bird conservation biologist from Mooringsport, Louisiana. He graduated with a BS in Environmental Science from Louisiana Tech University, and since graduating, he has worked a variety of bird-related field jobs. Most recently, he worked as a seasonal coastal bird technician for CBBEP in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
The program is free and open to the public. Meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. Come at 6 p.m. to chat with other birders. For more information or directions to the LSUS Museum, you can call 347-3134 or email: lrraymond@aol.com.
We will be accepting dues for those who have not paid in a while and want to contribute to our group. Individual memberships are only $15.00 and family memberships are $20.00.
For additional information, contact:
Larry R. Raymond
lrraymond@aol.com
318-347-3134
BSG programs are free and open to the public. For more information or directions to the Museum of Life Science, you can call 318-347-3134 or email: lrraymond@aol.com. Click here for a map to the Museum of Life Science at LSU Shreveport.
Reminder: 2025 Membership Dues can be paid at the meeting.
The Bird Study Group is a non-profit membership-based organization devoted to the observation, study, and enjoyment of birds. The BSG is open to anyone with an interest in any aspect of birdwatching, study, or conservation.
"Lunch Time" Great Egret, C. Bickham Dickson Park, Shreveport, LA. Photo by Cran Lucas.
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Jacob Bronowski in "A Sense of the Future" (1977, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, p. 4)