Volunteer

Help make a difference! Become actively involved with Richmond Audubon Society by protecting the birds, other wildlife and the environment. Help to ensure that future generations can benefit from and enjoy all the beauty nature has to offer! 

Contact the specific committee chairperson or event coordinator for ways that you can become a more active member or submit the volunteer form below.

Our volunteer opportunities include  helping with field trips, programs, conservation, educational  activities, coordinating membership meetings and more. You may want to get involved in administrative activities or share your  knowledge and passion for birds and nature. Keep your eye on the website  and our Facebook page for additional opportunities.

Richmond Audubon Society works in conjunction with various  organizations including: 

• Virginia Society of Ornithology (VSO)
• Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens
• Presquile National Wildlife Refuge
• Dutch Gap  Conservation Area
• Virginia Department of  Wildlife Resources
• James  River Park System
• Cornell University
• Virginia Department of  Transportation
• Department of Wildlife and Resources
• The Nature  Conservancy 
• ...and surrounding counties and their park systems

We work  with public schools and scout troops to bring nature, education, experience and our youth together. We lobby the state government on ecological and conservation issues as they arise.

Other activities include educational programs on birds, bird nest  boxes and feeding, identification and appreciation, gardening for the  birds, youth outreach and local conservation. 

We participate in numerous avian population surveys including: 

• Monitoring Avian Productivity  and Survivorship (MAPS)
• Project Owlnet-banding  Northern Saw-whet Owls
• The annual Hopewell Christmas Count
• Operating  banding stations at Powhatan Wildlife Management Area and Dutch Gap  Conservation Area
• Prothonotary warbler banding and research to include  the construction, installation and maintenance of Prothonotary warbler nest boxes at Dutch Gap (>100)

Many Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops as well as Richmond Audubon members have volunteered and constructed many Prothonotary nest boxes.  

“Adopt a Highway” litter clean-up at Dutch Gap and participated in  the annual Larry Robinson James River Count for over 34 years gaining  bird species data for the James River Park system.

Our members have also helped with the following programs:  

• Bird Nest  Monitoring including Bluebird trails and Purple Martin colonies
• With  Cornell University Celebrate Urban Birds
• Christmas Bird Counts
• Global Big Day
• Hummingbird at Home Count
• October Global Day
• Project FeederWatch
• Great Backyard Bird Count
• Virginia Department of  Wildlife Resources the VA Bird and Wildlife Trail and Wild Turkey and  Grouse Observation
• The Nature Conservancy’s City Nature Challenge
• The US National Park System Richmond National Battlefield Parks Mid Atlantic Bird Survey