Llano Estacado Audubon Society

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Board Meeting
LEAS Meeting

February 28th
6:30 & 7 pm

South Plains Wildlife
Rehab Center Program

Garden & Arts Center
44th & University

Birding Birds
Tahoka Lake
January, 28th
8:00 am

Contact Aveline Hewetson
or
Susan Bergeson
806-407-9930
(We will leave from my house at 7:15 AM)

Aveline.Hewetson@ttuhsc.edu
SusanE.Bergeson@gmail.com

The Llano Estacado Audubon Society (LEAS), centered in Lubbock, has a very well-kept birding secret: we have 296 regularly-occurring species in our territory! Adding accidental and hypothetical birds brings our species tally to 432, compared to the bird list for the entire state of Texas, which is just over 600.

Llano Estacado Audubon Society, incorporated in 1977, encompasses the following 15 counties: Bailey, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Hockley, Kent, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn, Motley, Terry and Yoakum. These counties cover 12,713 square miles with elevations ranging from 800 feet in Kent County to >4,400 feet in Bailey County.

Positioned within the Central Flyway and encompassing diverse habitats including: canyons, farmlands, grass- lands, thousands of playa wetlands, range, reservoirs, riparian areas, saline lakes, and urban areas. The LEAS territory is vital for birds, especially neotropical migrants and wetland birds.

Llano Estacado translates to "Staked Plains," a name given by the Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado in 1540.