Date: 6/2/25 6:07 pm From: Kevin Krajcir <kjkrajcir...> Subject: June 2025 ASCA Presentation
Hello!
Please join the Audubon Society of Central Arkansas next Thursday June 12th at 7 PM to hear from Karen Holliday, ASCA’s Field Trip Coordinator, about her bird watching trip to Guyana, South America in March 2025.
Karen Holliday and three long-time birding friends spent two weeks in March in Guyana, South America. Guyana was a new country for everyone. Guyana has over 600 species of birds. It has an excellent mix of habitats from mudflats along the Atlantic coast, pristine rainforests, large grassland fields, open savannahs, and rivers. The mountain birding included a canopy walkway. Harpy Eagle was the target bird for the group, which with incredible luck they saw on the second day of the trip. The group heard and saw a total of 283 species. Their favorite animal was seeing two Giant Anteaters.
Karen is retired from the Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research at the state Capitol where she worked for 23 years. Before that she was director of the Lawrence County Library system in Walnut Ridge, AR. When she moved from Walnut Ridge to Little Rock, she joined the Audubon Society of Central Arkansas. Participating in ASCA's activities, she met many birders which encouraged her to expand her birding efforts from backyard birds to birding statewide, then internationally. She has traveled to all seven continents and over 50 countries, many of them birding trips.
