Sign up For San Fernando Valley Audubon Society ‘Birdathon’

April is said to be the cruelest month—largely among poets. (T.S. Eliot famously wrote in 1922 that April breeds “Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.”)

April is also National Poetry Month—and in the San Fernando Valley it's the time when the San Fernando Valley Audubon Society kicks off its annual Birdathon, the nature education and wildlife conservation organization’s major fundraising effort of the year.

Throughout April and in early May, wildlife conservation experts will be leading a string of events at various locations, with the sole aim of sighting and counting as many species of birds as possible within a certain time frame.

Click here for details about the Birdathon leaders and the events they are scheduled to head. Each leader expects to count from 35 to 120 species of birds in areas ranging from the Sepulveda Basin to Antelope Valley.

You may also  sign a pledge/contribution form if you feel inclined to make a donation, which the SFVAS encourages you to do so that it can continue its work in the conservation and appreciation of bird life as well as nature.

Click here to access the SFVAS Facebook page.