Karen Holliday, a "world-class birder who travels the planet chasing exotic and new bird and animal species," will speak at the next meeting of the Audubon Society of Central Arkansas at 7 p.m. Thursday at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Admission is free.
Holliday's program, which will focus on her visit to the bottom of the world, is entitled "The 7th CONTINENT: AN Antarctic Adventure."
Holliday "enjoys seeing the birds and meeting birdwatchers from the countries and cultures wherever she goes. Having already visited 60 countries as a tourist or on guided birding tours, her recent Antarctica trip was her seventh and final continent."
Holliday has served as vice president and president of the Arkansas Audubon Society and is currently the field trip coordinator for the Audubon Society of Central Arkansas. Recently retired, "she enjoys going out on spontaneous avian excursions with other like-minded birding buddies." She lives in the Little Rock area with her husband.
Holliday and seven friends and family members journeyed to Chile and Antarctica in February, after a two-year wait due to the pandemic. After complying with multiple COVID testing requirements, plus weather delays, a BAE-146 plane in Punta Arenas, Chile, and a quick two-hour flight over the Strait of Magellan and Cape Horn, to land on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands she arrived in Antarctica, the "windiest, coldest, and least-populated of Earth's seven continents."
A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation.