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Fresno Rainbow Pride Celebration 11:00 am
Fresno Rainbow Pride Celebration @ Fresno City College
Jun 3 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Fresno Rainbow Pride Celebration @ Fresno City College
Fresno Audubon will have a booth at the Fresno Rainbow Pride celebration on the Fresno City College campus from 11 AM to 3 PM.   We will be distributing native plant seeds you can plant to attract birds to your yard.   Be sure to...
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Shaver Lake/Swanson Meadow: Saturday, June 10, 2023 6:45 am
Shaver Lake/Swanson Meadow: Saturday, June 10, 2023 @ Shaver Lake/Swanson Meadow
Jun 10 @ 6:45 am – 3:45 pm
  Shaver Lake/Swanson Meadow Bird Walk June 10, 2023 Register here   We’ll be heading up into the Sierra Nevada on June 10 for a day of mid-elevation birding. It’s not yet clear whether there will still be weather-related limitations for access in this area,...
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No General Meeting – June 2023 Meetings resume in September 7:00 pm
No General Meeting – June 2023 Meetings resume in September @ Zoom
Jun 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
No Virtual General Meeting Meetings resume in September New to Zoom? Check out all you need to know here before the meeting.   Description:  Fresno Audubon Society PO Box 3315 Pinedale, CA 93650-3315 Thank you for your continued involvement in and support of Fresno Audubon...
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Wednesday Walk – Fish Camp and Goat Meadow 8:00 am
Wednesday Walk – Fish Camp and Goat Meadow @ Fish Camp and Goat Meadow
Jun 14 @ 8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Registration Required. Link to Registration.   Fresno Audubon’s Wednesday Walk to Fish Camp and Goat Meadow will be on June 14, 2023. We will leave from the Walmart parking lot at Ashlan and Blackstone at 8am and head north on Highway 41.   Our first...
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FAS Board Meeting 11:00 am
FAS Board Meeting @ Zoom meeting
Jun 25 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
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No General Meeting – July 2023 Meetings resume in September @ Zoom
Jul 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

No Virtual General Meeting

Meetings resume in September


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Jul
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FAS Board Meeting @ Zoom meeting
Jul 30 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

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No General Meeting – August 2023 Meetings resume in September @ Zoom
Aug 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

No Virtual General Meeting

Meetings resume in September


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Aug
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2023
FAS Board Meeting @ Zoom meeting
Aug 27 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

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Sep
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Fresno/Clovis Wastewater Treatment Plant Field Trip @ Fresno/Clovis Wastewater Treatment Plant
Sep 9 @ 7:30 am – 12:45 pm

Pectoral Sandpiper by Gary Woods

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with your name as it appears on your driver’s license or ID card.

 

On Saturday September 9th we will be birding the Fresno WTP with co-leaders George Folsom and Gary Woods. The trip is limited to the first 30 people who sign up by Sept. 6th at 6pm. We will be under strict security rules limiting how many cars we can use on the grounds and registrants will not be able to leave early from the group due to multiple electronic gates that we’ll be passing through.

 

We will be meeting at 7:30 at the Walmart parking lot at the SE corner of Blackstone and Ashlan for preliminary carpooling and departing from there at 7:45 sharp. Alternatively, participants may go directly to the guard building at the entrance at 5607 W. Jensen Ave and tell the guard you are with the Audubon field trip. You will then be allowed to drive through the gate and will park in the first lot immediately on the right to wait for the main group. We will be leaving for the ponds by 8:15 sharp after everyone has signed the liability waiver for the city that will be passed around on a clip board. We will do a final carpooling round to get the number of cars down to 10 maximum.

 

We will be leaving the ponds and going back to the cars at 11:45 and proceeding to Kearney Park for lunch for those who want to continue with the group. If you carpool from Fresno be sure to bring your lunch and expect to stay with the group until mid-afternoon.

 

There will be one porta-potty on the ponding complex for our use. Be sure to bring sun protection, binoculars, water, lunch and an ID. We will have a couple of scopes set up for you and we’ll be looking for some of the rarer shorebirds that might be migrating through like Baird’s and Pectoral Sandpipers, Semipalmated Sandpipers and Short-billed Dowitchers.

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Leaders: George Folsom 351-7192 and Gary Woods 567-6005
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September 2023 General Meeting @ Zoom
Sep 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

September 2023 General Meeting

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Sept 12, 2023

Speaker: Rob Furrow
Title: Flight Calls to Monitor Nocturnal Migration in the Central Valley

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Most songbird migration happens while we’re sleeping, with warblers, sparrows, and other birds passing overhead during their nocturnal flights. These migrating birds are not entirely silent during the night; many species repeatedly make short calls as they fly, referred to as nocturnal flight calls. In this presentation Rob will outline the basics of how bird migration can be monitored using audio recordings of nocturnal flight calls. Then he will describe initial results from a pilot study of nocturnal flight calls in the Central Valley, conducted with UC Davis undergraduate Cameron Tescher, as well as more recent work recording sight-verified flight calls of western migrants at ridge migration sites. Throughout, the audience will learn about when and where they might be able to hear these flight calls, and how to identify a few of the most common calls.

 

 

Speaker Bio: 

Rob Furrow is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology at UC Davis. He has been birding since his youth and revels in early mornings with migrating songbirds. Nocturnal flight calls have long been an interest of his, so he was thrilled to take on these projects working alongside curious and dedicated UC Davis undergraduates.



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Wednesday Walk – Balsam Meadows Snow-Park and Forebay
Sep 20 @ 7:45 am – 2:00 pm

Registration is required. Register here for the event here.

George Folsom will lead this trip to Balsam Meadows Snow-Park and Forebay on Southern California Edison Company property, just off Highway168, nine miles above Shaver Lake.  The elevation is 6,500 feet.  We will be walking a loop trail of about 2 miles with very little elevation change.  Parts of this area were burned in the Creek Fire leaving a mixture of burned and unburned habitats.

 

There are restrooms at the parking lot and at the Forebay, about halfway through our walk.  Parking is available at the Snow-Park just off Highway168 on the left as you pass the sign.

 

We can expect woodpeckers, raptors, finches, warblers, swifts, sparrows among may others.

 

Participants should bring snacks, lunch (if desired), water, hat, sunscreen, and binoculars, and should dress in layers.  We will meet at Walmart, Ashlan and Blackstone, at 7:45 for an 8:00 AM departure.  For those driving directly to Balsam Meadows we should be there by 9:30.

Checklist: binoculars, scope, field guide, snacks, lunch, water, sunscreen, hat.

Trip Leader: George Folsom georgefolsom@icloud.com (559)351-7192

Map to Fresno meeting location, 7:45 AM

Map to Balsam Meadows Sno-Park, 9:30 AM

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Grant Grove, Sept. 23, 2023 @ Grant Grove
Sep 23 @ 7:00 am – 4:00 pm

 

Grant Grove Bird Walk

September 23, 2023

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Join Fresno Audubon on Saturday, September 23, as we journey up Highway 180 to the Grant Grove area of Kings Canyon National Park and beyond. Registration for this trip is required. Register here

 

We will meet at 7:00 AM in the parking lot between Javier’s Mexican Restaurant (5680 E. Kings Canyon Rd.) and the Educational Employees Credit Union to arrange carpooling. See Map Below.

 

The group will depart by 7:15 AM. Our first stop will be Grant Grove Village, where we will bird around the meadow. We will then drive about 6.5 miles farther on Highway 180 to the Indian Basin Grove Interpretive Trail/Princess Campground. Depending on time, we may also stop at the Big Stump Grove on the way back. We will head back down by about 4 pm. Participants can certainly leave earlier if they’d prefer.

 

Participants should bring snacks, lunch, water, hat, sunscreen, sunglasses, and binoculars. Registration is required and there is a limit of 25 participants.

 

Please reach out to trip leader Kevin Enns-Rempel (559-313-4546 or kevin.enns.rempel@gmail.com) with any questions. 

 

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FAS Board Meeting @ Zoom meeting
Sep 24 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

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CANCELED General Meeting – Oct. 2023 Bruce Lyon, The Breeding Biology of Coots @ Zoom
Oct 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

 Virtual General Meeting

Bruce Lyon

The Breeding Biology of Coots:

The meeting for tonight is canceled.

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Bruce Lyon, The Breeding Biology of Coots

Description:

Reconsider the coot: the crazy reproductive antics of a common marsh denizen.

Coots are often overlooked by birders because they are so common. I have been studying the reproductive antics of American coots for the past two decades and have discovered that there is far more to this bird than meets the eye. In the talk I highlight some of our discoveries about the parental and reproductive strategies of coots, from both a natural history and scientific perspective. We all are familiar with the story of the cuckoo female that lays eggs in the nests of other species rather than raising chicks herself.  Some coot females do this sort of thing, but they lay their eggs in the nests of other coot females. Why would they do this — why lay eggs elsewhere when you have your own nest? What do the birds that receive these unwanted foster eggs do? Coots are just as bizarre when it comes to raising their own kids, and there are many puzzling features of coot parental care behavior. For example, why do coots lay far more eggs than they can normally raise and why do they beat up their kids so much? And, finally, why are baby coots born with such a ridiculously fluorescent orange plumage? I will answer these questions in my talk. In addition, because our coot research was done in a wild part of central British Columbia, I will also briefly highlight a few of the special birds we encounter at our study site. Finally, the research program is expanding to ask similar questions in a mysterious coot in the High Andes of Argentina.

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Bruce Lyon is a professor of Evolutionary Ecology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on the evolution of reproductive strategies and mating behavior of birds. His long-term research on the adaptive basis of brood parasitism in American coots has sought to understand why parasitism within species evolves and how the behavior influences other aspects of social behavior. Dr. Lyon has also investigated the evolution of ornamental plumage signals in a variety of species, including lark buntings, lazuli buntings and the evolution of ornamental offspring plumage in the newly hatched chicks of American coots. Most recently, he has conducted a decade-long investigation into the winter social lives of migrant golden-crowned sparrows that spent their winters on the Arboretum of the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has also begun work on the horned coot, a rare and giant South American coot species with boring drab chicks.



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