NOVEMBER MONTHLY PROGRAM Climate Change Presented by Don Price Don Price is a professional engineer now retired from the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District. A graduate of Purdue University, he has over 30 years of experience in the control of air pollution. He has been involved in global climate change education since 2007 and...
DECEMBER MONTHLY PROGRAM 3D Birds Project Presented by Russell Campbell The oBird project is an effort by the Moore Lab of Zoology to digitize bird specimens and the morphological data they possess. Using a technique called photogrammetry, hundreds of photos of a specimen are combined to create a 3D digital model. These models improve public...
JANUARY MONTHLY PROGRAM Owl: A Year In The Lives of North American Owls Presented by Paul Bannick Join Paul Bannick for a program featuring video, sound, stories from the field and several dozen new images from his award-winning and best-selling bird book: Owl: A Year in the Lives of North American Owls. Paul uses intimate...
NOTE: This program will be presented via Zoom ONLY. The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology will NOT be open. Join the Zoom meeting at the start time. Jessica A. Oswald Terrill, PhD: Bird diversity through time, and the role of humans in shaping the diversity and distributions of living species Modern bird diversity and distributions...
JANUARY MONTHLY PROGRAM BIRDING IN TAIWAN, COSTA RICA, AND NICARAGUA Presented by Taylor Driggs Taylor will compare and contrast his birding and nature travel experiences in Taiwan, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. In this presentation he’ll share his birding adventures, show his best sightings, and give a little of his general travel advice for both regions....
MAY MONTHLY PROGRAM “Pelagic Birding off Southern California: Searching for Seabirds in the Open Ocean” by David Pereksta Nazca Booby Copyright David Pereksta While 70 percent of the earth is covered by oceans, the lives of the birds that inhabit those waters still hold a number of mysteries that science is only just starting to...
THE CVAS ANNUAL PICNIC Sunday, June 2 at Los Robles Open Space Meet at 8:00 am for the morning bird walk, then at 11:00 for the potluck lunch. It’s been twenty-three years since we first held our CVAS Annual Picnic at the Los Robles Trail area adjacent to the original Janss House in Thousand Oaks,...
Get ready for a dive into South America’s birdiest country! Together we’ll explore Colombia’s unique ecology, breathtaking scenery, and unparalleled avian diversity! Colombia holds the record with nearly 2,000 bird species and an impressive 80 endemics! During our time together, we’ll discuss what has given rise to such incredible diversity. Topics include the country’s five...
We have a last-minute special guest from Belize, Jonathan Urbina, presenting a bonus program about the Yellow-headed Amazon this Monday, June 2nd from 2-3 pm at the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. Born and raised in Belize, Jonathan went to school at Murray State in Kentucky, majoring in environmental sciences. He has gone on to...
Free-Flying Los Angeles Parrot Project Non-native parrots have become a very present and boisterous element of the urban ecosystems throughout Southern California. Now through the Free-Flying Los Angeles Parrot Project (FLAPP) on iNaturalist, we created a dataset focused on two of the more prominent species in Southern California, the Red-crowned and Lilac-crowned Parrots. After being...
Mono Lake is well-known for its breeding population of California Gulls, and for the large numbers of Eared Grebes and phalaropes that use the lake in fall migration. Tucked away in the scattered wetlands, ponds and creeks around the shores of Mono Lake, there is also an established breeding waterfowl population. Deborah House has monitored...
Patch Birding the Colorado Lagoon in Long Beach Patch-birding will lead to better understanding of how our local birds use different parts of the landscape from year to year and season to season, which may be more useful than knowing how often birds stray far off-course. Over the course of 8 years, Robb Hamilton has birded...