Past MBS Meetings

Spring Meeting - St. Joseph, Missouri   Stoney Creek Hotel
5/3/2024 - 5/5/2024
91 attendees
Keynote: Ann Johnson Prum, Nature Filmmaker, Film Life / Bird Life: Creating Wildlife Shows with a Focus on Birds
Fall Meeting - Mountain View   Bunker Hill Retreat
9/22/2023 - 9/24/2023
60 attendees
Keynote: Rebecca Landewe, Chief Ecologist with the L-A-D Foundation , L-A-D Foundation and the Pioneer Forest
Spring Meeting - Cape Girardeau   Drury Plaza Hotel and Conference Center
4/28/2023 - 4/30/2023
92 attendees
Keynote: Andy Forbes, Migratory Bird Conservation in the Midwest
Fall Meeting - Columbia   Poehlmann Education Center, Bradford Farm
9/23/2022 - 9/25/2022
93 attendees
Keynote: Julie Zickefoose, “Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay”
Spring Meeting - Mountain View   BUNKER HILL RETREAT
4/29/2022 - 5/1/2022
73 attendees
Keynote: Jeff Briggler, Hellbenders
Fall Meeting - Statewide   Virtual presentations with scattered field trips
9/24/2021 - 10/10/2021
93 attendees
Spring Meeting - Statewide   Virtual Zoom Presentations & Field Trips
4/28/2021 - 5/16/2021
141 attendees
Fall Meeting - Statewide   Field Trips at many locations; meeting
10/10/2020 - 10/10/2020
126 attendees
Keynote: Sarah Kendrick, Motus: Tracking Bird Migration in Missouri
Spring Meeting - Cape Girardeau   Drury Plaza Hotel and Conference Center
5/1/2020 - 5/3/2020
27 attendees
Keynote: Sarah Kendrick, Motus and Migration Tracking Migratory Birds in Missouri
Fall Meeting - Osage Beach   Camp Clover Point, Lake of the Ozarks State Park
9/27/2019 - 9/29/2019
54 attendees
Keynote: Bill Eddleman, Conservation Partnership Activities of the Audubon Society of Missouri
Spring Meeting - Mountain View   Bunker Hill Retreat
5/3/2019 - 5/5/2019
81 attendees
Keynote: Mark Robbins, Birds of Missouri
Fall Meeting - Columbia   Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center
9/28/2018 - 9/30/2018
66 attendees
Keynote: Al Batt, "Bird Stories Told by a Birdbrain."
Spring Meeting - Arrow Rock   Arrow Rock State Historic Site
5/4/2018 - 5/6/2018
100 attendees
Keynote: Ken Keffer, Conservation Lessons from a Vagabond Naturalist
Fall Meeting - Kaiser   Camp Clover Point, Lake of the Ozarks State Park
9/22/2017 - 9/24/2017
59 attendees
Keynote: Christian Hagenlocher, My Big Year and the Birding Project
Spring Meeting - Springfield   University Plaza Hotel
5/5/2017 - 5/7/2017
68 attendees
Keynote: Ted Floyd, Editor of Birding magazine, The King is Dead, Long Live the King. The Fall and Rise of Field Ornithology in the 21st Century
Fall Meeting - Kaiser   Camp Clover Point, Lake of the Ozarks State Park
9/23/2016 - 9/25/2016
54 attendees
Keynote: Danny Brown, A Decade of Photographing Missouri Wildlife: Images and Anecdotes
Spring Meeting - Mountain View   Bunker Hill Retreat
4/29/2016 - 5/1/2016
71 attendees
Keynote: Rebecca Landewe of The Nature Conservancy , Importance of Current River