Auburn’s Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve Added To Alabama Birding Trails

By Erin Harney

The Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve in Auburn is one of 10 new sites being added to the Alabama Birding Trails in 2018.

The preserve was added to the Piedmont Plateau Birding Trail, which features 34 sites in east-central Alabama, including Cheaha State Park, Lake Martin, and Fort Toulouse/Fort Jackson.

“One of the reasons Alabama has grown so much in birding is that it has a very unique set of habitats… We’ve got the mountains in the north, the gulf shores in the south… and we’re on or near several migratory pathways,” said Lew Scharpf, a member of the Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve advisory board and a long-time birder. Scharpf said the Alabama Birding Trail nomination process was extensive. “I admire the birding trails for being so careful about officially designating sites. We had to submit information on our habitats, the types of birds that are seen here, the geological formations, the weather… just a number of different kinds of parameters and factors that are involved in calling birds,” he said.

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