Good Afternoon,

This is the last message you will receive from
the South Alabama Birding Association!

Wow that was rather abrupt and unexpected.

Let me phrase it another way....

SABA is not going out of business but the
name is being changed. As of today we are...

The Alabama Wildbird Conservation Association.

Let me say quickly before any of you grammarians
or professors jump on me that I know wildbird is
2 words. I wanted the acronym to be AWCA so I
took a bit of poetic license with the name.

Over the next few days I will send you more info
concerning the name change and other things I
feel you will be interested in.

The messages will come from AWAC and the Yahoo
Group name will be different as will the address.
You will not need to do anything to keep your
subscription to the newsletter however.

The SABA Website is now the AWCA Website and the
look is quite different but the Home Page address is
still the same....

http://www.bamabirds.com/

I hope you will visit soon. There is quite a lot
of new information on the site. Be sure to take
a look at the projects section to see what we
have been doing and will continue to do.

You have probably noticed that we haven’t been
running field trips lately. I have some very
good news in that respect which I will share
with you in the next few days.

I am a bit melancholy about the change. A very
small group of birder’s joined with me in 1994
to form SABA and we have had some good times
and done some good work.

Since we launched the SABA Website in 1997 more
than 3000 people from across the nation and
around the world have registered a membership
with us. Currently almost 500 of those subscribe
to the newsletter, which is probably the largest
email birding group in Alabama.

Stay tuned and roll up your sleeves. I’m going
to be asking you to go to work for the birds!

Best wishes,
Charles Kennedy
President
Alabama Wildbird Conservation Association