Social Media Interns: Birds are real
SCVAS is recruiting students with a passion for the environment and an interest in social media to assist in content creation across SCVAS’s social media platforms. We are looking for content on local conservation and environmental issues, informative accounts of local species and habitat. Interns will attend a biweekly zoom meeting (1-2 hours every other Thursday afternoon), attend at least one Young Birders Club event a month, and will be responsible for creating four social media posts and at least one video (two to three minutes) suitable for Instagram, Youtube, and Tiktok a month. SCVAS will sign off on eight to twelve community service hours per month.
Interested students can apply by sending a social media portfolio and a two-minute video on a local environmental issue, or local species of wildlife they are passionate about, to Carolyn Knight at programs@scvas.org.
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.
NEST BOX MONITORING: MAINTAINING SAFE SPACES
Do you want to get outside and help your local cavity nesting birds? SCVAS is currently looking for volunteers to assist with nest box monitoring responsibilities on established trails throughout Santa Clara County. Get a close up look at the most secretive part of a bird's life, and get involved in a state-wide community science project! Open locations include areas of Almaden Quicksilver, and Ridge Winery. Students interested in monitoring can inquire about schoolyard boxes.
Volunteers must provide their own transportation to trails and be able lift weights of up to 10 pounds overhead (for the purposes of nest box retrieval).
Contact Carolyn Knight at programs@scvas.org for more information and to get connected!
Field Trips: Bringing people to birds
Self-guided Field Trip Reviewers: We like to keep the self-guided field trips up-to-date as possible, but sometimes trail conditions change. You’ll read through the guide of your choice, take the trip, and then report back with any updates. Bonus points for also doing a SBB/Facebook post on your outing.
Contact Carolyn Knight at programs@scvas.org for more information.