Birds & Beers
Spring 2025 Birds & Beers events:
Thursday March 13 – Karen McDaniel on An African Adventure .
Thursday April 10 – Jody Allair – The State of Canada’s Birds, and actions we can take to help our feathered friends.
Thursday May 22 – Annie Finch – Learning Bird Songs and Calls.
Thursday June 12 –
Birds & Beers takes a summer break before resuming in September.
Would you like to share your photos of birds from the Calgary area? Just email them to us at
birdscalgary@gmail.com and we may put them up on the blog!
Please follow ethical birding and photography practices. See our
Birding Ethics Page above.
Bird sightings, especially rare or reportable birds, should be posted to the Listserv Albertabird. It's an excellent place to read about recent sightings, share your lists and report rare birds. You can read the messages without joining, but if you want to post your sightings you'll have to join the group Albertabird .
Rare or notable birds should also be reported to James Fox at fox.james.ed[at]gmail.com, 780.999.0642. See this post for guidelines.
Join the
Alberta Birds Facebook Group to share photos and birding information.
Nature Calgary is the local umbrella group for natural history enthusiasts. Here is a link to the
Birding section of their web page.
Follow all of
Nature Calgary's activities on their Facebook page.
Nature hikes in the Calgary area, Kananaskis, and the mountain National Parks, led by John McFaul and Julia Millen.
Alpenglow Nature Hikes.