Sunday January 1, 2023 - 8:00 AM

Start the New Year off with a blast by participating in the Angwin CBC on Sunday, January 1st, 2023! Birding opportunities are available throughout the count circle including the Napa Valley, Pope Valley, Lakes Berryessa, Hennessey, and Angwin. details...

Wednesday January 11, 2023 - 7:00 PM

Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us. To create landscapes that enhance local ecosystems rather than degrade them, we must 1 remove the invasives on our property and 2) add the native plant communities that sustain food webs, sequester carbon, maintain diverse native bee communities, and manage our watersheds. If we do this in half of the area now in lawn, we can create Homegrown National Park, a 20 million acre network of viable habitats that will provide vital corridors connecting the few natural areas that remain. This approach to conservation empowers everyone to play a significant role in the future of the natural world. details...

Thursday January 12, 2023 - 7:00 PM

John will share highlights from his tours’ adventures in Morocco. With its high mountains, high desert, low Sahara desert, agricultural plains, coastal lagoons, cork oak woodland, and coniferous forest, Morocco has much to offer to birds and birders. details...

Saturday January 21, 2023 - 7:30 AM

Our January Monthly Field Trip will be to Clear Lake on Saturday, January 21st. Our Leader, Dr. Floyd Hayes has been a Professor of Biology at Pacific Union College and has studied the biology of the Clear Lake Eared and Clark's Grebes extensively. He presented in April 2021 at our Monthly Speaker Series and we are excited to have him lead this trip. We will bird the lake and nearby woodland areas. details...

Sunday January 22, 2023 - 9:00 AM

Are you dipping a toe into birding, or dusting off a pair of binoculars for the first time in a while? If you want company as you learn about birding, we’d be delighted to have you join us for our first Beginners' Bird Walk of the year on Sunday, January 22 at the American Canyon Wetlands Edge Park. details...

Sunday February 5, 2023 - 9:00 AM

Are you dipping a toe into birding, or dusting off a pair of binoculars for the first time in a while? If you want company as you learn about birding, we’d be delighted to have you join us for our Beginners' Bird Walk Sunday, February 5 at the American Canyon Wetlands Edge Park. details...

Thursday February 9, 2023 - 7:00 PM

Tiffany Kersten didn't set out to do a big year, but after a series of unanticipated and serendipitous events, she suddenly found herself amidst one. As a sexual assault survivor, she spent 2021 traveling to all corners of the Lower 48 States, tallying birds and gifting personal safety alarms to women she met along the way. Her goal was to see 700 species, and to raise awareness of women's safety in the outdoors. Tiffany ended up surpassing her goal and setting a new Lower 48 Big Year record of 726. In her presentation, Tiffany will lead us through the fear,  empowerment, struggles and healing that all played vital roles in the personal growth she experienced on this wild adventure. 

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Friday February 10, 2023

Birds and people will flock to Mare Island in Vallejo, California, to celebrate what has become a special annual ritual each winter: the San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival. The three-day event celebrates the return of over one million shorebirds and hundreds of thousands of ducks, geese, hawks, and songbirds that migrate through or winter in the San Francisco Bay Area. details...

Thursday February 16, 2023 - 6:00 PM

Scientists continue to make astounding discoveries about the navigational and physiological feats that enable migratory birds to cross immense oceans or fly above the highest mountains, go weeks without sleep or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch. Scott Weidensaul, author of A World on the Wing(2021), takes us around the globe — with researchers in the lab probing the limits of what migrating birds can do, to the shores of the Yellow Sea in China, the remote mountains of northeastern India where tribal villages saved the greatest gathering of falcons on the planet, and the Mediterranean, where activists and police are battling bird poachers — to learn how people are fighting to understand and save the world’s great bird migrations. details...

Sunday February 26, 2023 - 8:00 AM

Our February Monthly Field Trip will be to Morro Bay with leaders from the Morro Coast Audubon Society guiding our trip! details...

Wednesday March 1, 2023 - 6:00 PM

Join Tammy Saunders, Napa Solano Audubon Education Coordinator, for a Moonlight Owl Prowl at Alston Park details...