Volunteer

NSAS volunteers demonstrating assembly of a bird box.

Get Involved

NSAS is an all-volunteer organization. To make our programs successful, we need membership involvement in all of our activities. Donating even a few hours of time can help a lot. There are all sorts of fun ways to get involved – from helping out with a classroom visit, bird walk or special event, to monitoring your own area for breeding birds, to helping find new and better ways for our Audubon chapter to make a difference.

Why Volunteer?

There are lots of good reasons, including:

• Meet new people and make new friends
• Give back to your community
• Try something new
• Share your skills
• HAVE FUN
• LEARN
• GROW

Current Volunteer Needs

Opportunities abound. We will keep the list below up-to-date with our current volunteer needs. Contact Mark Stephenson () or any Board member about these and other opportunities.

Outreach & tabling at various community events: Volunteers are needed to help with designing exhibits and flyers, helping with PR, outreach at our welcome tables, and leading beginning bird walks for families. Only a couple of hours per volunteer and always great fun!

Beginning Bird Walks: Are you familiar with your neighborhood birds? We are in need of 1 or 2 volunteers to team up with Tammy Saunders, our Education Coordinator, or our Beginning Bird Watching Team to help lead our local bird walks. This is a flexible commitment for an occasional week day, Saturday or Sunday morning. Come join one of our teams!

Citizen Science: We are always searching for volunteer birders to support our Citizen Science Projects. These include volunteering for our Christmas Bird Counts to Monitoring Bluebird Boxes from March – August. We have teams who perform Climate Research, survey for shorebirds, and monitor Heron and Great Colonies. If you are interested in participating in any of these active birding Citizen Science projects contact Tom Slyker at or Mark Stephenson at .

Hospitality Chair: We need folks to help with refreshments for our monthly meetings, held on the 2nd Thursday of each month from September – May (except December).

Consider a Board Position: Our Board positions have annual turn-over. Officer elections are held in May for President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary, and we have Chairperson’s for Membership, Program, Education, Communication, Conservation Advocacy as well as Directors. Board Meetings are usually held five times a year on the last Monday of the month in August, October, January, March and May and members are welcome to attend and participate. Our Membership is welcome to attend to learn how they can help out! Please contact a Board Member for more information.