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What is your favorite bird?

By on October 14, 2020 in

David will use the frequently asked question “What is your favorite bird?” as a way of describing some of his favorite birding experiences.  Born and raised in the Lodi/Stockton area, David continues to live in the area today.  He has had opportunities to go birding over much of the world, but considers the Central Valley his favorite place to go birding.  He’s considered an authority on birds in San Joaquin County.

David started actively birding at the very young age of 10. By the time he was in high school birding had became his favorite hobby and passion. He went to college at UC Santa Cruz, majored in biology, and bird science was always his focus. David went on to become a full-time chemist. However, birding remained his passion, and, according to his wife of 35+ years, his obsession.

David is considered the top birder and field ornithologist in his native San Joaquin County, and is one of the top birders in the Central Valley. He has authored the Annotated Checklist of the Birds of San Joaquin County. He was a Regional Editor of North American Birds, Northern California Region from 1986-1994.

David has traveled throughout the state of California, birding its every corner. He has traveled extensively throughout the US in pursuit of birds, and has made numerous visits to Mexico, Central America, and Southeast Asia as well.

David has been an active field trip leader and bird teacher since his college days. He has led numerous birding tours throughout the US and Central American for decades. He has always made sharing birds a high priority in his birding career, and loves people more than birds, (which is saying a lot!).

David is a past president of San Joaquin Audubon, the Central Valley Bird Club, and the Western Field Ornithologists. He and his wife helped start the Central Valley Birding Symposium in 1997, and he continues to serve on the steering committee.

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Red Coats and Wild Birds

By on October 13, 2020 in

During the 19th century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in formal and informal scientific research. Kirsten A. Greer tracks British officers as they moved around the world, just as migratory birds traversed borders from season to season. Greer examines the writings of a number of ornithologist-officers, arguing that the transnational encounters between military men and birds shaped military strategy, ideas about race and masculinity, and conceptions of the British Empire. Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world and therefore to exert imagined control over it. Through its examination of the influence of bird watching on military science and soldiers’ contributions to ornithology, Red Coats and Wild Birds remaps empire, nature, and scientific inquiry in the nineteenth-century world.

When: This Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 7 pm PST

How To Sign In: Our free Speaker Series webinar is available on a first come, first serve basis with a limit of 500 participants. Please make sure to download the Zoom app before the Speaker Series begins. You will need a passcode to sign into the event. Links and passcode are provided below.

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About Our Speaker: Dr. Kirsten Greer is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Geography and History at Nipissing University, and the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Global Environmental Histories and Geographies. Her CRC program addresses specifically reparations “in place” from Northern Ontario, Canada, to the Mediterranean and the Caribbean through interdisciplinary, integrative, and engaged (community-based) scholarship in global environmental change research. She is the author of Red Coats and Wilds Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Greer is of Scottish-Scandinavian descent, from the unceded lands of Tiohtiàke/Montréal.

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Protecting Tricolor Blackbird Colonies

By on October 13, 2020 in

Xeronimo Castañeda is a Conservation Project Manager with Audubon California. His work with Audubon focuses on habitat restoration. enhancement, and multi-benefit management of Central Valley wetlands, agricultural operations, and groundwater recharge projects to benefit birds and people.   Of special interest to Xeronimo is the tricolored blackbird.

In 1990 the Department of Fish and Game of California , based on significant decline in tricolored blackbird population numbers documented (DFG/ CDW) in the 1980s, added the it to the published list of “Bird Species of Special Concern”. At this time the tricolored was added to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) list of Birds of Conservation Concern.

Current projects Xeronimo helps lead at Audubon are:

  1. protecting at-risk Tricolored Blackbird colonies,

  2. developing multi-benefit groundwater recharge projects in target regions to benefit birds and communities,

  3. coordinating spring flooding of private wetlands to support migratory shorebirds, and

  4. on-farm habitat enhancement using cover crops and through riparian restoration.

A native of California Xeronimo has lived and worked from Monterey to Arcata eventually finding his way to Sacramento. Away from work, Xeronimo spends time backpacking, riding bikes, cooking, and of course birding.

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From Field to Folio: Drawing Birds from Inspiration to Completion with local artist/illustrator, Gary Bloomfield.

By on October 6, 2020 in

Have you been wondering how to either start or improve on sketching birds? In this presentation, Gary will give a crash course on bird anatomy and explore how to apply this knowledge to sketching birds in the field or from your own photo and video references. Have a sketchbook handy!

He will present examples of his field sketches and finished paintings and demonstrate how to use your smartphone to “digiscope” photos to get useful references. (Digiscoping is taking digital photos through the eyepiece of a telescope).

Gary is a wildlife artist and illustrator, working primarily in ink and/or transparent watercolor and specializing in birds.

His published work appears in educational coloring books, various brochures, pamphlets, posters, maps, interpretive signs and displays, and books.  His work can also be found on numerous T-shirts.

Interested in birds for almost as long as he can remember, Gary  started actively birding when he was nine, and since then he has been an avid birder and occasional field ornithologist. He holds a bachelor’s degree in scientific illustration from Humboldt State University.

He has lived in Arcata, CA since 1980.

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Minimizing Wind Turbine Impacts on Birds in Shasta County

By on October 6, 2020 in

Bruce Webb will explain the various methods to assess the risk of avian impacts from wind turbines and examine the proposed Fountain Wind Project near Round Mountain in Shasta County. Bruce is Wintu Audubon Co-chair of Conservation and is a retired CDFW Staff Environmental Scientist with 35 years experience in environmental planning and wildlife impact assessment.

Topic: Minimizing Wind Turbine impacts on Birds in Shasta County
Time: Oct 14, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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