Event

Fall Least Tern & Snowy Plover Habitat Event

Volunteers hard at work on plover and tern habitat. Credit: SFBBO
Volunteers hard at work on plover and tern habitat. Credit: SFBBO

Join the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory to help enhance habitat for snowy plovers and least terns!

Volunteers will gather at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in Hayward to remove predator perches, trim overgrown vegetation, and spread oyster shells to help camouflage the protected birds from predators. These activities will help improve the breeding success of these protected species.

Eden Landing supports a large proportion of the Bay's plover and least tern breeding each year.

Alviso Marina County Park Volunteer Work Day

Alviso Marina County Park
Alviso Marina County Park

Weeding Party: You are invited to join Santa Clara County Parks Natural Resource Management team, in partnership with San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, in their efforts to restore the coastal habitat of Alviso Marina County Park.

Volunteers will assist in the removal of invasive plants and the spreading of mulch in preparation for the planting of native plants.

Please bring sturdy gloves, closed toe shoes (boots if possible), and your can-do attitudes! Youth and families are invited to participate.

Birdy Hour: The Bird Genoscape Project: Harnessing the Power of Genomics for Migratory Bird Conservation

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Event flyer

Dr. Kristen Ruegg will discuss her work to map migratory bird population challenges at this free virtual event. Most populations of migratory birds are now threatened. It is estimated that the populations of 1 out of every 2 songbirds are declining in the Western Hemisphere with impacts predicted to worsen with climate change. However, because migratory birds have breeding, migratory, and wintering areas and may move vast distances between them, understanding where the steepest population declines are occurring has been difficult or impossible.

Tern up for California Least Tern Conservation! Least Tern Colony Viewing

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Event flyer

Join San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory biologists at Eden Landing Ecological Reserve to view one of only six San Francisco Bay breeding colonies of endangered California least terns.

The group at the free event will look for adults incubating nests, young downy chicks being fed by their parents, older feathered chicks running around the colony, and fledglings learning to fly.

Birdy Hour: Identification of Shorebirds with a Focus on Calidris

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Event flyer

Shorebirds are an exciting yet vexing group for birders to identify. At this free virtual event, Jon Dunn and Lara Tseng will discuss sandpipers: not only their identification, but also plumages, structure, molts, behavior, status and distribution. They will also talk about how to look at and study shorebirds – doing so requires some memorization but more importantly patience, love, and understanding of the many varied species in these families.