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Western Bluebird.
PHOTO BY GLEN TEMKE.
Biologist Alvaro Jaramillo is featured in Birding Magazine.
PHOTO BY PATTY MCGANN.
Anna's Hummingbird.
PHOTO BY EDWARD NGUYEN.
Black Pheobe . PHOTO BY GARRETT LAU.
Biologist Alvaro Jaramillo teaching his adult birding class. Sign up today! PHOTO BY CAILTIN ROBINSON-NILSEN
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February 2010: Wingbeat 
Monthly enewsletter of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
Celebrate Valentine's Day! Share your Love of Birds!
You can give a gift membership to San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory! Delight your loved ones and share your passion for birds and habitat conservation with this perfect gift. Your gift recipient will receive a year's worth of our quarterly, Bay Bird Review newsletter, and will be able to enjoy your gift all-year long.
As an Observatory member, your gift recipient will also receive:
When you give a gift membership now, your friend or family member will be welcomed into the Observatory's family of dedicated individuals committed to protecting and enjoying the unique beauty of the San Francisco Bay ecosystem.
It's easy to give with our safe and secure online form. Or, if you prefer, you can make your gift by mail or phone:
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
Attn: Melanie Kimbel, Development Director
524 Valley Way
Milpitas, CA USA
(408) 946-6548
Remember the 2009 California Fall Challenge?
Take our Survey! The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory's 13th Annual California Fall Challenge finished in October 2009. What a fabulous serious of events, trips, and competitions! With your support, we raised $27,000 to support avian science and conservation!
We’ve created a survey to collect your comments. It takes about 10 minutes. Click here to take the survey.
Your feedback is vital to helping us plan another outstanding event for Fall 2010.
THANK YOU!
Bird Observatory in the News!
Senior Biologist, Alvaro Jaramillo, was recently interviewed by Birding Magazine. Read his take on black birds and gulls, and why sharing information with the birding community is important to him. The interview can be found on the ABA website here.
Upcoming Events
WORKSHOPS WITH ALVARO JARAMILLO
These workshops incorporate ecology, evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, and natural history to complement bird identification. We are currently offering two workshops – sign up now as these workshops fill quickly!
RSVP
GULLS (nearly full!)
Tuesday, Feb 23rd & Thursday, Feb 25th (instruction), 6:30–9:00 pm
Sunday, Feb 28th (fieldtrip), TBA
Gulls have a fanatical fan base in the birding world, but for most of us they are trouble and perhaps even strike fear as their identification can be complex. Through this course, we aim to prepare you to understand the general concepts of gull identification and build confidence to go out there and give the local gulls a name (and age). We live in a gull-rich part of the world, and this course will help you to fully appreciate the gull heaven in which we live. Apart from identification, we will touch on topics such as gulls and people (i.e., landfills), gulls and bird conservation, as well as their behavior, distribution, and migration.
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DIURNAL RAPTORS
Monday, March 8th and Wednesday, March 10th (instruction), 6:30–9:00 pm
Sunday, March 14th (fieldtrip), TBA
There is no doubt that if you were to pick the birds with the most intense fans, it is the hawks, eagles, and falcons: the diurnal raptors. You may remember the Gary Larson cartoon with hawks sitting on a tree, wearing shades, which reads “Hawks know they’re cool.” Well, we agree, and we have designed this workshop to both teach you how to identify the raptors, as well as to understand more about their behavior and biology. The close relationship that raptors have to prey, and therefore to habitat will be explored, in addition to their migration and population booms and busts. The Bay Area is rather diverse for raptors, particularly in winter, and this workshop aims to give a richer appreciation for these amazing hunters who share our home with us.
Birding in your Own Backyard
What could be more appealing than taking your morning coffee out to your patio, sitting down and watching the birds in your backyard? If you tend your garden to attract birds, the rewards are priceless. Read this story for great tips: Pruning? Look out for nests – it’s the law.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to the conservation of birds through science and outreach, and to contributing to informed resource management decisions in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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