The Yolo Audubon Society invites the public to join its November program meeting on November 16 at 7:00 pm. This hour and a half event will feature Davis’s own Marc Hoshovsky speaking on the history of the South Fork Preserve, located along Putah Creek a few miles southeast of downtown Davis. The Preserve is a […]
Please join Yolo Audubon at its December 14th Members’ Meeting, the annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) Bird ID Workshop, via Zoom, with Compiler Bart Wickel and Area Leader Zane Pickus. The CBC is scheduled for Sunday, December 18th, and marks the 52nd annual Putah Creek Christmas Bird Count. Bart will share data and trends from […]
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Nancy Ullrey will talk about the habitat improvements at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve and Capay Open Space Park, the expansion of bird boxes and bird box monitoring in those areas (some in partnership with YAS). She will also discuss how the Conservancy was created and how the Conservancy may move forward. Nancy […]
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION In the last few years, Yolo Audubon and its volunteers have recognized the importance of nest boxes to aid cavity-nesting species by placing and monitoring nest boxes at the Woodland Regional Park, as well as along the North Davis Channel (aka North Davis Ditch). Alison Ke, a UC Davis graduate student, will share […]
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION This presentation will feature an overview of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s efforts and plans related to creating Sentinel Sites on select properties throughout the state. Sentinel Sites are locations where biological and climate sensors will track climate change, ecosystem health and wildlife diversity over long time frames. These sites will […]
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Most of the migration of songbirds happens while we’re sleeping, as warblers, sparrows, and other birds pass overhead during their nocturnal flights. These migrating birds are not entirely silent during the night; many species repeatedly make short calls as they fly, referred to as nocturnal flight calls. In this presentation we will outline […]
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Bird expert and world traveler John Sterling will share his adventures in looking for and photographing some of the rarest birds in the world including those he found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Guyana, Argentina and Paraguay. John will take us to these exotic places and describe how he found the elusive wonders. […]
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Costa Rica has long been regarded as one of the top tropical birding destinations in the world and with good reason. This small Central American country is roughly the size of West Virginia yet is home to ~5% of the world’s biodiversity, 900+ species of birds with 47 avian endemics to […]
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION In August 2023, Chris Conard joined a group largely composed of Sacramento-area birders to southern Africa. The birds were wonderful, and the mammals were absolutely mind-blowing. We moved east from the Namib Desert on the Atlantic Coast, through Etosha National Park, the Okavango Delta, Victoria Falls, with a single day in […]
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Most of us have enjoyed sharing our neighborhoods with Black Phoebes, whether nesting in a park or on a ledge attached to one of the houses, we are entertained by their antics and pleased with their diet of insects. Project Phoebe is a research program started by a team of UC […]
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Please join Yolo Audubon at its December 6th Members’ Meeting, the annual Putah Creek Christmas Bird Count (PCCBC) Bird ID Workshop, with Compiler Bart Wickel and Area Leader Zane Pickus. This program will start at 7:00 pm and will be held at the Davis Senior Center, 646 A Street, Davis, CA […]
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The 53rd annual Putah Creek CBC is scheduled for Sunday, December 17th, regardless of weather. For more information about the Christmas Bird Count and to volunteer click here. After the count please join us for the Summary & Potluck to be held at the Davis Senior Center, 646 A Street, Davis, […]