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SUMMARY:The Magic of Central America: Costa Rica's Birds and Ecology
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n  \n\n\n\n\nThree-wattled bellbird ©Benjamin Jacobs-Schwartz \n\n\n\n\nPROGRAM DESCRIPTION \n\n\n\nCosta 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 the country. \nDuring our presentation\, we’ll visit a variety of ecosystems including the cloud forest\, the Caribbean lowlands\, the Pacific dry forest\, and the ecological factors that have made Costa Rica the international birding mecca that it is! \nThis event is free\, and you do not need to be a member of Yolo Audubon. If you would like to join\, click here. If you only want to receive the monthly newsletter\, click here. \n\n\n\nSPEAKER BIO \nBenny Isaac Jacobs-Schwartz owns and runs a bird-guiding business and lifestyle brand called BIRDS by BIJS (pronounced Bee-jus). Working professionally for over 10 years as a naturalist guide\, expedition trip leader\, and international bird guide\, Benny has worked in a variety of locations coast to coast\, including exotic places such as coastal Alaska\, Central America\, Trinidad and Tobago\, and the Ecuadorian Amazon. \nBenny is a passionate educator and photographer\, specializing in birds! Benny uses his ample collection of nature-based content to leverage an active social media presence. BIJS uses his passion for the natural world to inspire others to put down their phone and pick up their Binos. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is free\, and you do not need to be a member of Yolo Audubon. If you would like to join click here. If you only want to receive the monthly newsletter\, click here. \n\n\n\nDETAILS ON JOINING THIS ZOOM MEETING \n\n\n\nYou must register (no cost) in advance for this meeting. An account with Zoom is NOT necessary to join a meeting. Zoom limits the number of participants to 100. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Registrants will receive email updates about this online event\, as well as periodic email updates about Yolo Audubon’s conservation work and how you can help birds. (you can unsubscribe at any time.) \n Please note:  Participants must have the Zoom desktop client downloaded on their computer or on their Apple or Android mobile phone or tablet to access the meeting.  \n Visit   to learn how to join a Zoom meeting. You may email Yolo Audubon Program Chair Ken Ealy before the meeting if you need help.
URL:https://yolobirdalliance.org/event/the-magic-of-central-america-costa-ricas-birds-and-ecology/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T190000
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SUMMARY:Southern Africa--Namibia\, Botswana\, Zambia\, plus a little bit of South Africa.
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n  \n\n\n\n\nWhite-quilled Bustard ©Chris Conard \n\n\n\n\nPROGRAM DESCRIPTION \n\n\n\nIn 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 South Africa before heading home. Highlights are too many to catalog\, but include a great diversity of hornbills\, kingfishers\, and shrikes in starkly beautiful settings\, with a cavalcade of large mammals coming to and interacting at waterholes. Lions\, leopard\, 17 species of antelope\, elephants\, and both species of rhino jockeyed for first prize as most spectacular–the rhinos won! \nSPEAKER BIO \nChris Conard is a Natural Resource Specialist at the Bufferlands in Sacramento County. He regularly leads field trips for Sacramento Audubon\, serves as a county reviewer for eBird\, and is a past president of the Central Valley Bird Club. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is free\, and you do not need to be a member of Yolo Audubon. If you would like to join\, click here. If you only want to receive the monthly newsletter\, click here. \n\n\n\nDETAILS ON JOINING THIS ZOOM MEETING \n\n\n\nYou must register (no cost) in advance for this meeting. An account with Zoom is NOT necessary to join a meeting. Zoom limits the number of participants to 100. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Registrants will receive email updates about this online event\, as well as periodic email updates about Yolo Audubon’s conservation work and how you can help birds. (You can unsubscribe at any time.) \nDuring the presentation\, you will be able to ask questions via Zoom’s chat feature for the Q&A afterwards. \n Please note:  Participants must have the Zoom desktop client downloaded on their computer or on their Apple or Android mobile phone or tablet to access the meeting.  \n Visit   to learn how to join a Zoom meeting. You may email Yolo Audubon Program Chair Ken Ealy before the meeting if you need help.
URL:https://yolobirdalliance.org/event/southern-africa-namibia-botswana-zambia-plus-a-little-bit-of-south-africa/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231115T190000
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SUMMARY:Project Phoebe: Studying and Supporting a Uniquely Urban Flycatcher
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nPROGRAM DESCRIPTION \n\n\n\nMost 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 Davis graduate students in 2022 to shed light on the experiences of the Black Phoebe\, one of our familiar but ecologically surprising urban neighbors. Two members of Project Phoebe\, UC Davis students Alia Tu and Ian Haliburton\, will discuss the research program as a whole\, introducing its unifying themes and emphasizing the accomplishments of its first year. Additionally\, Alia and Ian will each present on their sub-projects within Project Phoebe. More than anything\, Ian and Alia hope to show how extraordinary these backyard flycatchers are\, fostering an appreciation for the challenges they overcome and encouraging participation in Project Phoebe’s continuing efforts to understand them and promote their success. \nPlease join us for an illuminating session on urban Black Phoebes! \nThis event is free\, and you do not need to be a member of Yolo Audubon. If you would like to join\, click here. If you only want to receive the monthly newsletter\, click here. \nSPEAKER BIO \n\nAlia is a third year undergraduate student at UC Davis\, majoring in Mathematics with a minor in Wildlife Fish and Conservation Biology. She is excited about working in the field\, observing bird behavior\, and learning more about the scientific process and how birds and humans can coexist in an increasingly urbanized world. She greatly appreciates the many wonderful opportunities for exploring the world of research and ecology in the Davis and surrounding area. Along with her studies\, Alia is also an artist\, musician\, aspiring educator\, and overall nature-lover.\nIan is a second-year PhD student in the UC Davis Animal Behavior Graduate Group. He is interested in the role of behavior in wild birds’ responses to anthropogenic challenges as well as the ways that behavior research can inform bird conservation\, especially within urban environments. His focus is on the challenges of chemical pollution\, and he is exploring ways to bridge the fields of ecotoxicology and behavioral ecology in his research. Working with the dapper Black Phoebe and its nestlings\, Ian is planning to pick apart relationships between an individual’s environment\, behavior\, reproductive success and risk of exposure to chemical pollutants. He is thrilled to be doing work where he gets to think about and interact with the local birds he loves every day\, and he is infinitely grateful that he no longer spends so much time in windowless laboratories like when he was an undergrad studying neuroscience at UCLA. Outside of his grad student life\, Ian is an illustrator\, a climber and a bird dad to two adorable budgies.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDETAILS ON JOINING THIS ZOOM MEETING \n\n\n\nYou must register (no cost) in advance for this meeting. An account with Zoom is NOT necessary to join a meeting. Zoom limits the number of participants to 100. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Registrants will receive email updates about this online event\, as well as periodic email updates about Yolo Audubon’s conservation work and how you can help birds. (You can unsubscribe at any time.) \nDuring the presentation\, you will be able to ask questions via Zoom’s chat feature for the Q&A afterwards. \n Please note:  Participants must have the Zoom desktop client downloaded on their computer or on their Apple or Android mobile phone or tablet to access the meeting.  \n Visit   to learn how to join a Zoom meeting. You may email Yolo Audubon Program Chair Ken Ealy before the meeting if you need help.
URL:https://yolobirdalliance.org/event/project-phoebe-studying-and-supporting-a-uniquely-urban-flycatcher/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting,Online Event
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SUMMARY:2023 Christmas Bird Count Bird ID Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n  \n\n\n\n\nHutton’s Vireo©Kelli O’Neill \n\n\n\n\nPROGRAM DESCRIPTION \n\n\n\nPlease 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 95616. \nThe PCCBC is scheduled for Sunday\, December 17th\, and marks the 53rd Count.  To participate in the bird count contact a leader who assembles a team for each designated zone in the Putah Creek count circle.  Click here to find a leader.  \nThe workshop consists of a primer on bird identification and an introduction to logging birds using eBird as well as a discussion of recent count trends\, including a review of climate change and forest fire impacts on the count circle. \nBart will share data and trends from earlier counts\, focusing on climate change and the fire history of the count area. \nThe 15-mile diameter count circle centers on Putah Creek and is divided into ten different areas\, each with its own plan regarding coverage\, teams\, start time\, and method of travel (car\, foot\, hiking\, bike\, etc.). Up-to-date information about the count and contact information for the Area Leaders is here on the Yolo Audubon website. \nSPEAKER BIO \nBart Wickel\, member of the Yolo Audubon Society’s Board of Directors\, has been birding Yolo County for almost 10 years now. He is the compiler for the Putah Creek Christmas Bird Count. \nZane Pickus is an undergraduate at UC Davis studying Wildlife\, Fish\, and Conservation Biology. Zane has been interested in birds his entire life\, and as he has gotten older\, that interest has morphed into a passion. He values the opportunity to teach others through field trips and presentations\, appreciating the sense of community found in sharing birds with others. Zane is a member of the Yolo Audubon Society’s Board of Directors\, is an officer of the Birdwatching Club at UC Davis\, and is a regional reviewer for eBird in Yolo County. \n 
URL:https://yolobirdalliance.org/event/2023-christmas-bird-count-bird-id-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231217T080000
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SUMMARY:2023 Christmas Bird Count and Potluck Dinner
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n  \n\n\n\n\nSnowy Egret©Kelli O’Neill \n\n\n\n\nPROGRAM DESCRIPTION \n\n\n\nThe 53rd annual Putah Creek CBC is scheduled for Sunday\, December 17th\, regardless of weather. \nFor more information about the Christmas Bird Count and to volunteer click here. \nAfter the count please join us for the Summary & Potluck to be held at the Davis Senior Center\, 646 A Street\, Davis\, CA 95616. The doors will open at 5:00 pm for early finishers and for food set-up. Whether you were able to join the count or not\, we invite you to join us to socialize and share the highlights of the day. \nThis event is free\, but please bring a dish to share with others. You do not need to be a member of Yolo Audubon to attend however\, if you would like to join\, click here. If you only want to receive the monthly newsletter\, click here. \nPCCBC Compiler Bart Wickel and the Area Leaders will compile the field data at a later date. \n SPEAKER BIO \nBart Wickel\, member of the Yolo Audubon Society’s Board of Directors\, has been birding Yolo County for almost 10 years now. He is the Compiler for Yolo Audubon’s Putah Creek Christmas Bird Count. \n  \n 
URL:https://yolobirdalliance.org/event/2023-christmas-bird-count-and-potluck-dinner/
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