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~News and Upcoming Events~ Join Prairie Falcon Audubon and support our activities! Friday, September 15th: Nov. Coffee Order Deadline Lamphouse Theater Movie - Magpie Funeral Showing Sept. 8 - 22.  Cool new Cassia Crossbill tees and sweatshirts now available - your purchase benefits the Intermountain Bird Observatory and the Cassia Crossbill Working Group New Birdy Books at the Twin Falls Public Library

Become a Prairie Falcon Audubon Member Membership is $20 per person/year or $40 per household/year.   Why Become a Member?  As Prairie Falcon Audubon’s inaugural membership drive commences September 2023, you are encouraged to become a member! Your membership demonstrates your support for the chapter and allows PFA to continue to bring you interesting educational presentations at our monthly meetings, an up-to-date and informative website, birding field trips, habitat conservation efforts, and a great social outlet with amazing people. Your annual $20 individual ($40 household, $100 business) membership is a great value. Besides the above mentioned, you will also receive a discount on your coffee purchases, a special “members only” outing, and a small Prairie Falcon Audubon commemorative item (yet to be developed). So don’t wait; join now! It’s quick and easy; click the “SIGN UP” button. It is very much appreciated!  SIGN UP  If you have troubles signing up, try emptying your web browser cache. .... And remember that as a member you can enjoy a free popcorn on us when you attend "Magpie Funeral" at the Lamphouse theater! (Sept. 8 - 22)

WHY YOU SHOULD BUY BIRD FRIENDLY COFFEE Our "Birds and Beans" Bird Friendly Coffee® is Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center certified and represents a gold standard in ethical and sustainable coffee production. Bird Friendly® coffee is coffee that comes from family farms in Latin America that provide good, forest-like habitat for birds. Rather than being grown on farms that have been cleared of vegetation, Bird Friendly® coffees are planted under a canopy of trees. These trees provide the shelter, food and homes migratory and local birds need to survive. You'll feel better about enjoying a really great cup of coffee, knowing that birds were not harmed.  Order "Birds and Beans" Bird-Friendly Coffee NOW ORDER FORM - CLICK HERE Please submit your order ON or BEFORE September 15th, 2023 Coffee will be available for pick-up at our October 5th Program

The Lamphouse Theater in Twin Falls will be showing Magpie Funeral from Friday, September 8th to the 22nd. Golden Eagle Audubon Society member and award-winning Boise filmmaker, Greg Green's feature film is a heart-warming and family-friendly drama starring Darren Burrows (Northern Exposure). You’ll see scenes of Idaho birds (including Black-billed Magpies)! MAGPIE FUNERAL follows Sy McMurphy (Darren Burrows) who is a bird lover - especially magpies. In fact, Sy wants to witness a magpie funeral one day. Sy also yearns to be a successful screenwriter. But for decades, he has been sending screenplays to Hollywood directors with no success. For now, he has settled for an unsatisfactory job directing tedious shows for a local TV station. Randy (David Weisenberg) is Sy's boss at the station and long time nemesis who takes out his frustrations on Sy. Then one day Sy meets Nancy (Meredith Shank) and her five year old daughter, Lisa (Elizabeth Leach). Suddenly, events are set in motion which defy Sy's convictions of love and success.Watch the trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkmIvPQAkQM More details to follow... like how you can get a free popcorn! and how you can meet the director of the film in person at the Lamphouse! CLICK HERE to read an Idaho Press article Terry Rich wrote about all things MAGPIE FUNERAL CLICK HERE to read a MAGPIE FUNERAL review by George Prentice of the Boise Weekly and Boise Public Radio CLICK HERE to see a KTVB-TV story about MAGPIE FUNERAL and its director, Gregory Greene

Cassia Crossbill Apparel! Support Cassia Crossbill research by ordering a tee-shirt or sweatshirt featuring either a male or female Cassia Crossbill! Become a member of the crossbill crew! (Available until September 19th - several styles, colors, and sizes) ORDER HERE

Check out the Twin Falls Public Library and Check out a book about Birds or Birders! There is no better time than now to support your Public Library. Get your very own library card (they're inexpensive), check out books or download on to your device. Here are some good ones...

A Wing and a Prayer - The race to Save Our Vanishing Birds by Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal "Three years ago, headlines delivered shocking news: nearly three billion birds in North America have vanished over the past fifty years. No species has been spared, from the most delicate jeweled hummingbirds to scrappy black crows, from a rainbow of warblers to common birds such as owls and sparrows. For the past year, veteran journalists Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal traveled more than 25,000 miles across the Americas, chronicling costly experiments, contentious politics, and new technologies to save our beloved birds from the brink of extinction. Through this compelling drama, A Wing and a Prayer offers hope and an urgent call to action: Birds are dying at an unprecedented pace. But there are encouraging breakthroughs across the hemisphere and still time to change course, if we act quickly"-- Provided by publisher

Conversations with Birds by Priyanka Kumar "Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself." So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar"-- Provided by publisher.

Better Living Through Birding - Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper "Christian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan, and an expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. When birdwatching in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old. But when a routine encounter with a dog-walker escalates age old racial tensions, Cooper's viral video of the incident would send shockwaves through the nation. In Better Living Through Birding, Cooper tells the story of his extraordinary life leading up to the now-infamous encounter in Central Park and shows how a life spent looking up at the birds prepared him, in the most uncanny of ways, to be a gay, Black man in American today. From sharpened senses that work just as well in a protest as in a park, to what a bird like the Common Grackle can teach us about self-acceptance, Better Living Through Birding exults in the pleasures of a life lived in pursuit of the natural world and invites you to discover your own. Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and primer on the art of birding, this is Cooper's story of learning to claim and defend space for himself and others like him, from his days as a writer for Marvel Comics, where Cooper introduced the first gay storyline, to vivid and life-changing birding expeditions through Africa, Australia, the Americas and the Himalayas. Better Living Through Birding is Cooper's invitation into the wonderful world of birds, and what they can teach us about life, if only we would stop and listen"-- Provided by publisher.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Statement Prairie Falcon Audubon, Inc. fully supports National Audubon Society's statement on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (www.audubon.org/about/equity-diversity-and-inclusion-audubon). Prairie Falcon Audubon, Inc. believes that everyone has the right to enjoy birds, the outdoors, and a healthy and safe environment. In order to fulfill our mission to educate the general public about birds, bird watching, and preservation/improvement of the environment that birds and bird watchers share, we will work to include everyone, no matter their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political affiliation, age, or disability. We are committed to building an equitable, diverse, anti-racist, accessible, fun, and inclusive organization that supports birds, and the people who watch them, in our community.

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