As we approach the season of giving, we invite you as a supporter of SCVAS to make a 2024 gift with a Direct Distribution from your traditional IRA.
SCVAS is offering a two-part online class (beginning/intermediate-level) on one of our most confusing groups—the Flycatchers! Class members will gain access to our private discussion group where you can pose questions or photos. Matthew Dodder will be your instructor. Sign up and join the fun!
Monday: March 15 & March 22, 7:00 - 8:30 PM via Zoom. Sign Up Now →
If you missed tonight’s Speaker Series talk, fear not! The entire presentation is now available on our YouTube channel.
Join us July 1 at 7:30pm as SFBBO biologist, Ben Pearl discusses the Western Snowy Plover and the California Least Tern and the efforts to protect them here in the Bay Area and at the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in Alameda County.
Summer doldrums? Hardly! Our executive Director Matthew Dodder describes the exciting possibilities for summer birding.
Pete Dunten reports on the latest rare bird sightings in the county. Also see the Archives.
The Summer 2020 issue of The Avocet newsletter is here!
Also check out the June update, sent as email on June 24th.
Matthew Dodder presents a multi-part “Ask BirdGuy” series walking you through eBird. He’ll start by showing you how to create your own account, explore its many features and explain how to submit your own birding checklists. Great for beginners and experts alike.
Take a virtual field trip with one of our volunteer Field Trip Leaders. Enjoy the sights and sounds of our county’s open spaces through the new videos on our YouTube channel.
Members and volunteers, find out how you can share your videos.
At 10am on Thursday mornings, Carolyn Knight, our Education and Outreach Specialist, has been hosting a livestream about Birding Basics on our Facebook page.
You can catch her archived livestreams on our YouTube Channel.
Our Spring Birdathon kicked off this past weekend and the writeups and photos have started to flow in. Every team has a story to tell, whether it be one person kicking up their feet and birding out their kitchen window or a distributed team of fourteen birders spanning the county. Check our Birdathon Stories page regularly as the Birdathon adventures continue.
Our Audubon Nature Shop has temporarily changed to appointment only. You can still order birdseed, suet, books and other items by calling April Austin, our office manager, at 408-252-3747 or sending email to her at scvas@scvas.org to organize a time for pickup.
We appreciate your patience and understanding during this difficult time.
As our birds ramp up nesting activity, SCVAS is strongly recommending that specific details regarding nest sites or nesting activity be omitted from public posts to South Bay Birds or other list services.
We are joining our conservation partners – who have fought together for years for balanced management of our public lands – to make sure the BLM hears loud and clear from the public that they should honor their 2015 commitment to protect important sage-grouse habitat. You can help by weighing in with the BLM, as they are asking for public comments.
Pete Dunten reports on the latest rare bird sightings in the county. Also see the Archives.
The birds are telling us that spring has arrived! Our executive Director Matthew Dodder describes the exciting possibilities for spring birding.
Full writeups for the Winter 2019-2020 Christmas Bird Count are now available, along with the Table of Results.
Sign ups have begun for the 2020 Spring Birdathon! SCVAS’s annual spring fundraiser is gathering participants and teams for our friendliest birding competition of the year.
Listen to Matthew Dodder, Lisa Myers and Mike Azevedo talk about birds and native plants on KKUP’s morning radio show.
