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Yurok Condor Reintroduction Program Update

The Yurok tribe is in partnership with the National Park Service and the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service to restore the California Condors to Yurok Ancestral Territory. The tribe has relocated groups of Condors to the Klamath River watershed after extensive biological and watershed assessments. Tiana Williams will provide a report on this exciting project, including plans for the future!

Wintu Audubon Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Yurok Condor Reintroduction Program Update
Time: Mar 8, 2023 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Live Bird Presentation at Turtle Bay

Barred Owl

Sharon Clay has been the Curator of Animal Programs at Turtle Bay for over fifteen years. During that time she has assembled an incredible showcase of animals that are unable to be released back into the wild. These include several species of birds ranging from the Golden Eagle, Turkey Vulture and Barn Owl to the Yellow-billed Magpie and her long time friend Kinta, the Laughing Kookaburra. Sharon has graciously given us the opportunity to visit her at “The Mill Building” in Turtle Bay to meet these amazing birds, learn all about them and experience them close up, some as they fly across the room! This will be an in-person presentation that you won’t want to miss. Watching it later on YouTube just won’t be the same.
Park at the monolith adjacent to the Sheraton Hotel at Turtle Bay no later than 6:45 pm to access the gate to enter the park for this 7pm meeting. We will direct you to the Mill Building.

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Magee Marsh – “The Biggest Week in American Birding”

Judee and Bill Adams first attended the Biggest Week in American Birding in May of 2013.  They were so blown away with the abundance and variety of birds seen, that they have returned 4 more times.  They will be giving us all the particulars and sharing pictures of the gorgeous birds they saw on those trips.

 

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Topic: Magee Marsh – The Biggest Week in American Birding
Time: Mar 9, 2022 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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California Birds in a Changing Climate

As our climate changes, the entire web of life must adapt or perish. If a flower blooms earlier due to increased temperatures, insects that depend on that flower must hatch earlier, and birds that consume those insects must arrive from their spring migration earlier. Whether birds will be able to adapt to this change is uncertain. National Audubon has determined that 50% of birds will be threatened by climate change. During this program, Dr. Wendy Schackwitz will explain the science behind this research and provide a set of actions that you can take to help climate-threatened birds. She will discuss how Citizen Science projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and Christmas Bird Counts were used to identify bird population trends.

Dr. Schackwitz will also describe how two new Citizen Science projects, Bird Seasons and Climate Watch, are improving our understanding of these trends. Interested in helping? On December 12th, the day following her presentation, she will lead a free workshop that will explain in detail how you can help by participating in either, or both, of these two programs. The workshop will begin at 8am at Lema Ranch with limited space.

Dr. Wendy SchackwitzDr. Schackwitz is the previous president of Napa-Solano Audubon, retired scientist at the Joint Genome Institute, and an independent bioacoustics researcher. Dr. Schackwitz worked for 13 years at the Joint Genome Institute/Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, where she led a group studying the genetics of organisms important for bio-fuel production. Her current work is using audio recordings to track the impacts of climate change on bird species distributions as well as the timing of the reproductive success and failures of Tricolored Blackbird colonies.

NOTE: THIS PRESENTATION AND FOLLOWING WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE McCONNELL FOUNDATION HEADQUARTERS AND REQUIRE RESERVE SEATING! RESERVE YOUR SEAT FOR THE PRESENTATION HERE. IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT PARTICIPATING IN THE WORKSHOP, RESERVE YOUR SEAT HERE.

 

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The Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada

The west coast wilds contain worlds of beauty, and there’s nothing like a good walk for an exhilarating and up-close experience of it.  One of Wintu Audubon’s own, Zach Winchell, took that long walk along the Pacific Crest Trail last summer, from Mexico to Canada.  Come share a view of the adventure through his photographs!

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