UPDATE 4/10/25: The Live Oak Farm Birding Expedition is now FULL and the registration form is closed.
Join Land Trust for Louisiana (and expert ornithologists Melanie Driscoll and Erik Johnson) for a magical day of birding and exploring the coastal Louisiana habitat at Live Oak Farm, a 100-year-old working rice farm under conservation in Vermilion Parish.
Date: Friday, April 11, 2025
Time: 9 a.m. till approximately 2 p.m.
Location: Live Oak Farm, Abbeville, LA
Ticket price: $60/person. Lunch will be provided.
Get your tickets now for a day of exploring south Louisiana’s wild beauty, during peak bird migration season!
Melanie Driscoll is a consulting expert on ecology, conservation, birds and habitats to help organizations meet their strategic conservation goals. She has worked in this capacity with the National Audubon Society, The Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation, Knock Knock Children’s Museum, and Audubon Florida. Melanie developed the Important Bird Areas program for Audubon Louisiana, and led the expansion of Audubon’s Gulf Coast coastal bird stewardship programs.
Erik Johnson is the Director of Conservation Science for Audubon Delta. He has worked to develop several bird monitoring initiatives at the Paul J. Rainey Audubon Sanctuary to understand the effects of management on marsh birds, supporting the science-based restoration mission of the Rainey Conservation Alliance — a collaboration among local landowners in Vermilion Parish to save coastal marshes. Erik is active in Louisiana’s birding community and serves as Louisiana’s Christmas Bird Count regional editor, a member of Louisiana’s Bird Records Committee, Vice President of Baton Rouge Audubon Society, and Co-director of the Louisiana Bird Observatory.
