Education Docents: Engaged in the environment
Wetlands Discovery Program Docent
Do you love nature? Do you have experience with students or a passion for sharing an appreciation for the environment? We're looking for docents to be available on weekday mornings to volunteer in schools and lead field trips for the Wetlands Discovery Program. Volunteers teach students grade 3-5 about local wetlands, adaptations, and migration in the classroom and out in the field in this program, all while sharing their love of local birds. Minimal birding and education experience required. All volunteers must be fingerprinted, submit proof of a negative TB test, and submit a county vaccination record.
Fill out this form with interest. New volunteers will be shadowing experienced docents beginning in March. Training walks will be held in January and February.
FIELD TRIPS: BRINGING PEOPLE TO BIRDS
Self-Guided Field Trip Writers
Do you have a favorite birding place that would make a great self-guided field trip? We are looking for more submissions. This task does not require any technical skills besides email, it only requires a love of your location and basic birding knowledge. We will make the maps for you, collect any bird photos you need, and even take the location photos.
In particular, we are looking for new guides on Agnews Historic Park, Pacheco State Park, Sanborn County Park (main entrance), Rancho Cañada del Oro or any location we haven’t covered yet.
Please contact Eve Meier at fieldtrips@scvas.org for more information.
Required: SCVAS member
Outreach: Share the love (of birds)
SCVAS periodically hosts informational tables at community events and with other conservation organizations. Spend a couple hours of your time to help these SCVAS outreach events and share your love of birds with other people! SCVAS periodically hosts informational tables at community events and with other conservation organizations. Spend a couple hours of your time to help these SCVAS outreach events and share your love of birds with other people! Events include partnerships with Veggielution, Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful, Friends of Rengstorff House, and more!
Join our email group to easily get updates about these tabling and outreach events here
Naturalists Needed: OSCSP
Explore the Coyote Valley with us! The Oak Savanna Community Science Project is a three year project funded by the Open Space Authority to bring the community into nature and introduce high school students to community science at the North Coyote Valley Conservation Area.
Monthly Bird Surveys: Wednesday morning, once a month, 7:30-11am. Birders survey transects in the North Coyote Valley Conservation Area, making special note of migratory, breeding, and nesting birds. This site is closed to the public and has been the location of birds like the Tri-colored Blackbirda, Yellow-breasted Chat, and Ferruginous Hawks! The next survey will be Wednesday, December 21.
Ages 12 & up with parent participation, some birding and eBird experience preferred.
Contact programs@scvas.org with interest/questions.
Nature Shop: Helping feed the birds
SCVAS is looking for reliable volunteers to help run the nature shop on an as-needed basis. Volunteers are responsible for answering basic birding and wildlife related questions for the public over the phone and in person, entering sales in the Nature Shop, filling and cleaning the feeders and bird baths, and helping with the occasional mailing.
Contact April Austin at scvas@scvas.org for further information.