Birds, Art and More Tour

Cost: $15 (Advanced registration is required)

(Includes entrance to both museums and Audubon Birds of Florida special exhibit)

0800-1015          Field trip with Birding with David Simpson (Dee & David)

1015-1045          Restroom break and travel to Museum of Arts & Sciences (MOAS)

1045-1100          Arrive at MOAS and check in for tour

1100-1300          Docent led tour of Audubon special exhibit, planetarium show, and time to explore other galleries.

Birding Field Trip 

Trip leaders Dee and David, professional guides from Birding with David Simpson, will lead us on an adventure to two different birding hot spots to look for local species and fall migrants. Tipping the guides is optional, but greatly appreciated.

Stop #1: Ponce Preserve

Ponce Preserve – https://maps.app.goo.gl/jdQd9nhamYFDv77LA

Restrooms on site.  No entrance fee.  Boardwalk 1/3 mile.  Mangroves and salt marsh, lagoon overlook.  Some woods around parking lot.  Migrants, Clapper Rails, maybe some ducks and waterbirds on lagoon.

Stop #2: Port Orange Causeway Park

Port Orange Causeway Park – https://maps.app.goo.gl/oL84Gs9kE7ss9GxQ6

10 min from Ponce Preserve.  15-20 min from museum.  No entrance fee.  Restrooms on site.  Walk around parking lot.  Lots of water birds.  Ducks, Oystercatchers, shorebirds.

Museum of Arts and Sciences – Art Museum Special Audubon Exhibition Tour

John James Audubon’s Birds of Florida

The Museum of Arts & Sciences invites you on an extraordinary journey through the original Birds of Florida as captured in the meticulously painted studies of John James Audubon (1785-1851), one of the most celebrated artists in American history. A masterpiece of printmaking, these exquisite, life-size illustrations are part of Audubon’s ground-breaking 435-count compendium The Birds of America, the culmination of the artist’s ambition to paint every bird species in North America. As part of this twelve-year venture, Audubon organized a special expedition to Florida (1831-1832) in order to document the birds, and their habitats, unique to the U.S. Territory.

Location:

Museum of Arts and Sciences (MOAS)

352 S. Nova Road
Daytona Beach FL 32114

Our group will enjoy a private, docent led tour of Audubon’s Birds of Florida special exhibit. Following the tour attendees will have free time for self-guided viewing of the other galleries and science museum.