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Classes offered at other facilities that count toward Wildlife Rehabilitation Continuing Education credit. If you are aware of any classes outside the Lindsay that you believe may qualify for wildlife rehabilitation continuing education credit, please forward the info to the Hospital Volunteer Manager.
Golden Gate Audubon Society
Classes
The Golden Gate Audubon Society offers many classes throughout the year that can give Wildlife Rehabilitation Continuing Education credit. Check with the Hospital Volunteer Manager to see if a specific class is approved. Here is a link to their class schedule page:
Monthly Speakers
Golden Gate Audubon’s monthly Speaker Series in San Francisco and Berkeley features renowned naturalists, photographers, ornithologists, authors, international travelers, and other fascinating speakers. To cover event costs, they ask non-members for a voluntary donation of $5. Non-members may attend for free if they join that evening. As always, GGAS members are welcome to attend free of charge. Speaker Series venues are:
San Francisco: S.F. State University Downtown Campus, 835 Market Street (Westfield Shopping Center, at Powell Street BART station), 6th floor.
Berkeley: Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda (between Solano and Marin)
Doors open for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. and the speaker will start promptly at 7 p.m.
Check with the Wildlife Rehabilitation Volunteer Manager to see if a specific class will count toward the Continuing Education requirement.
Information on the current speaker can be found at:
February:
Rodenticides: The New DDT?
Lisa Owens Viani
Berkeley: Thursday, February 20, 2020
6:30 p.m. refreshments, 7 p.m. program
Are anticoagulant rat poisons the new DDT? Lisa Owens Viani will describe the epidemic of wildlife mortality caused by these poisons. She’ll explain their impacts on birds of prey such as hawks and owls, among many other animals. She’ll summarize proposed legislation to reduce the use of dangerous rodenticides, and what we can do to help beneficial predators thrive and provide us with their free, natural pest control services.
Environmental writer Lisa Owens Viani co-founded Raptors Are The Solution, which educates people about the ecological role of raptors and the danger to wildlife from widespread use of anticoagulant rat poisons.
March:
Cancelled-Creating Urban Bird Habitat
Amber Hasselbring
San Francisco:
Thursday, March 12, 20206:30 p.m. refreshments, 7 p.m. program
Birds need native plants and the insects that feed on them, but how to provide native habitat in our urban backyards and public open spaces? Nature in the City’s Backyard Natives Nursery enlists volunteers to grow native plants in their own yards. Learn how these volunteers engage with each other to harvest seed, clone plants from cuttings, and coordinate large-scale habitat restoration… and how your own backyard birds can benefit from this collaborative effort.
Amber Hasselbring is Executive Director of Nature in the City, whose mission to connect everyone in San Francisco to nature by cultivating and conserving local habitats.
Our monthly programs include guest speakers, unusual bird sightings, refreshments, and conversation. Visitors are always welcome! Meetings are held:
7 pm on the first Thursday of every month (except July and August when we take a summer break)
Camellia Room at The Gardens at Heather Farm, 1540 Marchbanks Drive, Walnut Creek
Usual Meeting Schedule:
6:30 pm Doors open
7:00 pm Birding Info
7:25 pm News
7:40 pm Snacks & Raffle
8:00 pm Main Program
2020 Main Program Schedule at a Glance:
February 6 – Audubon Climate Report with Juan Pablo Galvan
March 5 – Birds of the American West with Norman Kikuchi
Cancelled-April 2- Peregrine Falcons at UC Berkeley with Allen FishMay 7 – Adelie penguins of Antarctica with Annie Schmidt
June 4 – Members’ photo contest (Not eligible for Continuing Education)
July and August – no meetings
September 3 – TBD
October 1 – Birds and Agriculture with Daniel Karp
November 5 – Kestrels with Holly Jessop
December 3 – Woodpeckers with Stephen Shunk
Unless otherwise indicated, these presentations can count toward Continuing Education for Wildlife Rehabilitation Volunteers, check with the Hospital Volunteer Manager.
February Program:
February 6 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Birding Info: The Peregrine Team in Pine Canyon, an all-volunteer natural history education team, has just begun its sixth season helping to monitor this beautiful apex predator nesting on the western edge of Mount Diablo State Park. You’ll hear an update of last season from a core team member, Wally De Young, and see his brief, inspiring film about the falcons.
Main Program: Audubon Climate Report with Juan Pablo Galván
Audubon’s new science shows that two-thirds (64%) (389 out of 604) of North American bird species are at risk of extinction from climate change. The good news is that our science also shows that if we take action now we can help improve the chances for 76% of species at risk. MDAS Young Birders Club Coordinator Juan Pablo Galván will present Audubon’s new report on the impacts of climate change on birds. He’ll also show the drastic impacts that climate change is already having on the Bay Area and other parts of the world, attempt to explain why it’s been so difficult to make progress against a drastically warmer climate caused by humans, and make a provocative case for who is responsible for this tragedy. Most importantly, every person in the audience and everywhere on the planet must ACT NOW to prevent catastrophic climate change.
Juan Pablo runs the MDAS young Birders Club. He grew up in Benicia, but since high school has lived and worked in Costa Rica, Mexico, Washington D.C. and different parts of California. Juan Pablo has always loved animals and been interested in learning about and protecting them and the habitats they live in – even since kindergarten when he brought an octopus in for show and tell. Juan Pablo graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a B.S. in Ecology, Behavior and Evolution and a minor in Political Science. Then after working in Mexico for a year, he pursued an M.S. in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He’s been back and forth between Mexico, Sacramento, and other places, but has lived in the Bay Area the past six years hiking the mountains and checking out the beaches.
This is the monthly meeting of the Mt. Diablo Audubon Society. Visitors are welcome, but please consider joining if you find their programs interesting.
This presentation can count toward Continuing Education for Wildlife Rehabilitation Volunteers.