Birding
Beginner Bird Walks
Enjoy urban birding in Forest Park’s Nature Reserve, a migrating passerine hotspot. These walks are offered in partnership with the St. Louis Audubon Society. Weather permitting, walks will be held each month except for July.
Walks are held on the first Saturday of the month (except for July) from 8am to 10:30am.
January 6: This date has been canceled.
February 3: Meet at Picnic Pavilion 11 in John F Kennedy Memorial Forest
March 2: Meet at the Steinberg Rink parking lot
April 6: Meet at the Dennis & Judith Jones Visitor & Education Center
May 4: Meet at Picnic Pavilion 11 in John F Kennedy Memorial Forest
June 1: Meet at the Highlands Golf & Tennis Center parking lot
July: No Walk Scheduled
August 3: Location coming soon.
September 7: Location coming soon.
October 5: Location coming soon.
November 2: Location coming soon.
December 7: Location coming soon.
Resources
One of the pleasures of Forest Park is the opportunity to observe the natural world and its wide variety of wildlife. The lakes and ponds of the Park are magnets for people, water birds, and many aquatic species. The John F. Kennedy Forest, located in the southwest corner of the Park, acts as a migratory resting area for a variety of songbirds and is home to wild turkeys. Forest Park Forever is committed to sustaining this important ecological balance.
"Counting Warblers: A Timetable for the Spring" — By Randy Korotev
Go to this website for an article reprinted from Nature Notes, the WGNSS journal. It presents a high-resolution Timetable illustrating when 106 species of migrant birds, mostly passerines, pass through the St. Louis area in April and May. The Timetable is based on 20 years of data collected in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Forest, a migrant trap in Forest Park.Forest Park’s Bird Checklist: Click here to download the PDF.