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 →
The Silent Auction has officially ended. Winners of the auctioned items will be notified by Wednesday October 7.
Check out our Silent Auction! From now until Sunday, October 4 at 11:59pm, you have a chance to bid on dozens of awesome items and support SCVAS at the same time.
The Founder of Saved By Nature showed us how the lives of youth and adults of all backgrounds and abilities can be improved by experiences outdoors. Talk was Wednesday, September 23 at 7pm . The video is now available on our YouTube channel.
We have published our first Annual Report — full of information about our programs, goals, history, volunteers and, of course, financial information.
We had a lovely time at last night’s Annual Meeting. For those who missed it, you can watch the event on our YouTube Channel.
Artist and author John Muir Laws lead us in a lively discussion of using journaling to improve your birding skills. This Speaker Series talk, which happened on September 16 at 7pm, is now available on our YouTube channel.
SCVAS member Vayun Tiwari was recently chosen as winner of the National Audubon Society’s youth photography award.
Confused by fall warblers? Matthew Dodder will help you figure out which field marks will most help you narrow down your warbler choices this season.
Pete Dunten reports on the latest rare bird sightings in the county. Also see the Archive.
The Fall 2020 issue of The Avocet newsletter is here!
Read the Latest Issue Now or explore our new Avocet Archives going back to 1929!
Also check out the September update, sent as email on August 26th.
Our open spaces and local birds need your help! Your contributions to the SCVAS Environmental Action campaign enable us to remain deeply involved with the welfare of our wildlife and work with local city councils and volunteers to make our voices heard.
Update: Mike’s Speaker Series presentation is now available to watch on our YouTube channel!
Local naturalist and SCVAS member Michael Hawk launches an amazing new conservation-focused Podcast today called Nature’s Archive. Matthew Dodder is featured as one of his first interviewees!
Read our statement on the ongoing racial division in our nation and SCVAS’s commitment to be inclusive of all people.
With more than 100 members voting, we are pleased to announce that all candidates for Board positions have been unanimously elected. Barry Langdon-Lassagne assumes his new role as Board President, with Bill Walker as the new Vice President. Joan Leighton continues as Secretary and Bob Hirt continues as Treasurer. Board positions for Mike Armer and John Richardson have been renewed.
Check out “Who We Are” for updated biographies of all the board members.
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.
