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.

The Winter - Spring 2011 FOS Snail Kite Newsletter is now online. Please email all article submissions for the next newsletter to the Snail Kite Editor.

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.

The Florida Bird Conservation Initiative is proud to announce the launch of our Statewide Avian Project Database! One step towards achieving FBCI's mission is to ensure that everyone in the bird conservation community is aware of the projects with which we are involved. We need your help in developing this database, which will serve as a searchable and comprehensive snapshot of all avian conservation projects and activities underway throughout the state. We hope this will be a useful tool for connecting the avian conservation community in Florida!

We hope everyone enjoyed the Spring 2011 Meeting in Odessa. Pictures from the meeting are being posted.  Newly elected officers are Ann Paul (Vice-President), Brian Ahern (Secretary), Gregory Schrott (Director) and Erik Haney (Director). Thanks to outgoing officers Elena Sachs, Jim Cox, and Dave Goodwin  for all of their dedication and efforts.