Monthly Meeting

Join Sid England to learn about the ecology, beauty, and stories of the Galapagos Islands.

Photographer Jim Dunn is the featured speaker at Yolo Audubon’s March 15th meeting. He will present a series of his stunning avian images and discuss what makes a compelling photograph and how he sets to get one. According to Dunn, “Making interesting bird photographs presents a unique set of challenges to the photographer. You don’t […]

A UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa, Botswana’s Okavango Delta is a landscape of exceptional and rare beauty. Not unlike California’s historic Central Valley, the Okavango is a watery mosaic of islands and meandering channels that sustain an ecosystem of abundant habitat and species diversity. A biodiversity hotspot, […]

The October 18th Yolo Audubon meeting will feature Frank Fogarty, an ecology doctoral student at the University of California, Davis, who will present a talk on the natural history and ecology of Great Basin birds, with a focus on his research in riparian communities. In the central Great Basin, montane riparian areas exist as small […]

Double-crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) are seabirds known to use urban structures as nesting habitat. The old east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the eastern portion of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge have hosted the two largest colonies of this species in the region. However, now these colonies are declining, and structures they once […]

Come join Christmas Bird Count coordinator and expert birder Steve Hampton for our annual bird identification workshop and preparation for the Putah Creek Christmas Bird Count to be held December 17, 2017. The evening will be fun, as well as educational! Steve will go over identification of bird species we expect to see on the count […]

The featured speaker at Yolo Audubon’s January 17th meeting is Dr. Bob Meese, one of the leading experts on tricolored blackbirds. He has worked with the species for 13 years and will present a summary of his research, including a review of their natural history and remarkable breeding biology.  The tricolor is currently under review […]

Field trip guide and photographer, Kevin Gusé will present a travelogue of his 2017 trip to Colombia at the February members' meeting. Colombia was essentially off limits to birders for many years due to security issues stemming from political unrest. It is now relatively safe and more accessible to birders than ever before. With a […]

The Josh Hull Laboratory at UC Davis is primarily focused on genetics, behavior, ecology and conservation of birds. On March 21st, graduate students from the Hull Lab--Shannon Skalos, Ryan Bourbour, Emily Abernathy and Chris Tyson, will discuss their diverse research projects taking place across California. Their respective topics are: reproductive, foraging and movement ecology of […]

On April 18, UC Davis research ecologist Melanie Truan will speak at the Yolo Audubon meeting on the topic of avian conservation in the Central Valley. California’s agriculturally-dominated Central Valley is one of the most altered landscapes in North America and remains vulnerable to strong economic and population growth pressures that impact bird and wildlife […]