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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200820T163000
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SUMMARY:SF Bay Bird Observatory - Sparrows in the Mist: Complex Winter Social Behavior in a Little Brown Bird
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nBirdy Hour Speaker Series\nExpand your knowledge of birds\, birding\, science\, and conservation by joining us for virtual talks and discussions. These events are free and family-friendly! \nSparrows in the Mist: Complex Winter Social Behavior in a Little Brown Bird\nby Dr. Bruce Lyon\nAugust 20\, 2020 at 4:30pm\nRegister here
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/sf-bay-bird-observatory-sparrows-in-the-mist-complex-winter-social-behavior-in-a-little-brown-bird/
CATEGORIES:Birding,Birding Classes,Education
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200716T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200716T210000
DTSTAMP:20260508T091001
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SUMMARY:Webinar:  Farallon Islands USFWS proposed mouse eradication plan
DESCRIPTION:Attend (virtually) a presentation on July 16\, 2020\, 7PM\, hosted by Marin Audubon Society\, to learn about the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Plan to restore the ecosystem of this globally important wildlife refuge by removing the introduced house mice. Attend the webinar to hear how you can help restore this unique ecosystem. \nPlease register here
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/webinar-farallon-islands-usfws-proposed-mouse-eradication-plan/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T143000
DTSTAMP:20260508T091001
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SUMMARY:Free Webinar - Planned Helicopter Drop of 1.5 Tons of Rodent Poison on Farallon Island
DESCRIPTION:This presentation\, by Richard Charter\, representing the Ocean Foundation\, outlines opposition vewpoints to the controversial U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to use anticoagulant rodenticide to eradicate the invasive house mouse from this island ecosystem and restore it to a more natural condition and thereby protect threatened nesting seabirds\, notably Ashy and Leach’s Storm Petrels. \nRegister here for this seminar.   The USFWS webinar is on July 16.  Please see this event on the calendar to register.
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/free-webinar-planned-helicopter-drop-of-1-5-tons-of-rodent-poison-on-farallon-island/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200510T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200510T140000
DTSTAMP:20260508T091001
CREATED:20200426T191602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200426T192955Z
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SUMMARY:Bringing Back the Natives Virtual Garden Tour
DESCRIPTION:Here in the Bay Area\, we have an outstanding resource for people who want to create bird-friendly gardens—the annual Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour. Due to circumstances we have all heard enough of\, we will be hosting a live\, online virtual garden visit.  This program will be hosted on Zoom\, and livestreamed on YouTube. \nPre-registration is required at: Register for Sundays in the Gardens\n(You will need to register for this event\, even if you already registered for the cancelled in-person Tour earlier this year.) \nCheck the Bringing Back the Native Garden Tour Website closer to the dates of the events for the exact schedule of gardens we’ll be visiting.
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/bringing-back-the-natives-virtual-garden-tour-2/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T150000
DTSTAMP:20260508T091001
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SUMMARY:Bringing Back the Natives Virtual Garden Tour
DESCRIPTION:Here in the Bay Area\, we have an outstanding resource for people who want to create bird-friendly gardens—the annual Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour. Due to circumstances we have all heard enough of\, we will be hosting a live\, online virtual garden visit.  This program will be hosted on Zoom\, and livestreamed on YouTube. \nPre-registration is required at: Register for Sundays in the Gardens\n(You will need to register for this event\, even if you already registered for the cancelled in-person Tour earlier this year.) \nCheck the Bringing Back the Native Garden Tour Website closer to the dates of the events for the exact schedule of gardens we’ll be visiting.
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/bringing-back-the-natives-virtual-garden-tour/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T120000
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SUMMARY:A Water-wise\, Habitat-friendly\, California Native Garden - CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled.  In its place\, Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tours are are offering virtual tours of selected gardens on May 3 and May 10.  Please see the calendar for these dates to sign up!
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/a-water-wise-habitat-friendly-california-native-garden/
CATEGORIES:Education,Field Trips
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ORGANIZER;CN="Education@mtdiabloaudubon.org":MAILTO:education@mtdiabloaudubon.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T190000
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SUMMARY:Monthly Program: March 2020
DESCRIPTION:Main Program: Birds of the American West with Norman Kikuchi \nBirding info: Microplastics: The ‘Almost’ Invisible Threat \nMicroplastics are tiny fragments of plastic that are less than five millimeters (about the size of a grain of rice) or smaller.  These fragments of plastics are everywhere—in table sea salt\, in fish and shellfish\, in detergent\, and personal care products. In her role as an environmental risk assessor\, Jill Hedgecock has been on the leading edge of addressing the emerging environmental concern of microplastics.  Jill will share information of this “almost invisible threat” and ideas on how every person can reduce their “plastic” footprint. Jill Hedgecock is a long-time MDAS member. She has a master’s degree in Environmental Management from USF and a bachelor’s degree in the biological sciences from UC Davis. \nMain Program: Birds of the American West with Norman Kikuchi \nThis program features a glimpse into the lives of iconic birds of the Western United States drawn from a personal selection of photographs from birding hotspots in New Mexico\, Oregon and California. Starting in world famous Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico\, we witness the unforgettable spectacle of immense flocks of snow geese and sandhill cranes. \nNorman Kikuchi’s childhood interest in birds began while stalking Ring Necked Pheasants in the foothills of Mt Diablo\, but his real bird epiphany occurred during his college days when he witnessed the impalement of a Western Fence Lizard by a Loggerhead Shrike on a Joshua tree spine. He was transfixed by the moment! \nNorman graduated from the University of California Davis with a degree in Zoology and a minor in herpetology. He completed medical school and family practice residency at University of California\, Irvine. He currently practices Urgent Care and Occupational Medicine in Redding\, California and is a lifetime member of the Santa Cruz Bird Club and field trip leader for Santa Clara Valley Audubon.
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/monthly-program-march-2020/
LOCATION:The Camellia Room at The Gardens at Heather Farm\, 1540 Marchbanks Drive\, Walnut Creek\, CA\, 94598\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Program
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ariana Rickard":MAILTO:arianajrickard@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T210000
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SUMMARY:Monthly Program: February 2020
DESCRIPTION: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. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMain Program: Audubon Climate Report with Juan Pablo Galván \nAudubon’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. \nJuan 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.
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/monthly-program-february-2020/
LOCATION:The Camellia Room at The Gardens at Heather Farm\, 1540 Marchbanks Drive\, Walnut Creek\, CA\, 94598\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Program
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ariana Rickard":MAILTO:arianajrickard@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200102T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200102T210000
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SUMMARY:Monthly Program: January 2020
DESCRIPTION:Birding info: Mt. Diablo Audubon Society Vice-President Jerry Britten will report highlights of the 2019 Christmas Bird Counts. \nMain Program: Feathers and Flight: A Journey to the New World Tropics \nMasked Trogon. Photo by Benjamin Jacobs-Schwartz \nInternational bird guide\, naturalist and wildlife photographer\, Benny Jacobs-Schwartz will share his dazzling bird photos\, captivating videos\, and animated storytelling to bring a slice of the tropics to California. \nTouching on topics of migration\, speciation\, and biodiversity\, this media rich journey will share some of the fascinating and unique birds that inhabit the new-world tropics. Sure to both educate and entertain\, this presentation will leave you with a deeper understanding of tropical ecology\, and knowledge about where some of our backyard birds spend their winters! \nBenny Isaac Jacobs-Schwartz owns and operates a bird guiding business and lifestyle brand called BIRDS by BIJS (pronounced Bee-jus). Working seasonally as a naturalist guide\, expedition trip leader\, and international bird guide\, Benny works in a variety of locations. Most recently bringing him to such exotic places like coastal Alaska\, Trinidad and Tobago\, and the Ecuadorian cloud forest. \nWhen not trip leading or following birds across the world he is at home growing his business. BIRDS by BIJS\, initially begun in response to many requests for urban birding outings\, the business has now grown to encompass a nature inspired clothing line\, bird photography and wildlife documentaries\, and of course local and international bird watching tours. \nSeasonally Benny or BIJS\, is based in Los Angeles\, where he leads public and private birding adventures to urban hotspots. He is also a passionate photographer\, specializing in birds. He uses his impressive collection of content to leverage his prolific social media presence. Benny hopes his love of the natural world will inspire others to conserve the open spaces around them and look up more often from their phones!
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/monthly-program-january-2020/
LOCATION:The Camellia Room at The Gardens at Heather Farm\, 1540 Marchbanks Drive\, Walnut Creek\, CA\, 94598\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Program
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ariana Rickard":MAILTO:arianajrickard@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260508T091001
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SUMMARY:Monthly Program: December 2019
DESCRIPTION:Birding info: Gorillas on the Mountain \nJill Hedgecock with gorilla \nDid you know that gorillas share over 99% of their DNA with humans? Learn about these knuckle-walking great apes as Jill Hedgecock shares her amazing experiences while visiting with the mountain gorillas in Rwanda. \nMain Program: Kenya – A Birding and Wildlife Frontier with Jill Hedgecock \n \nWhat is it like to touch extinction? Admire nature’s ingenuity in a parrot’s coloration? Marvel at the oddest-looking raptor on the planet? Watch vultures swoop in on the remains of a lion kill? \nThe fact that Kenya is home to the last two Northern white rhino and one of the largest populations of black rhino is what initially drew Jill Hedgecock to visit Kenya. But its wealth of birdlife was a big attraction too. Kenya is home to 1\,100 species of birds—nearly half of the 2\,341 bird species found in Africa. \nIt supports the second largest variety of birdlife in Africa\, second only to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kenya’s natural resources provided National Geographic moment after National Geographic moment. Jill’s breath caught while watching a lion pick up its cub in the manner of a housecat moving its kitten.  Her heart melted as she observed two cheetah siblings grooming each other. Then there was the laugh-out-loud moment of a juvenile giraffe kicking up his heels. Another highlight was witnessing hundreds of wildebeest cross a crocodile-infested river.  But perhaps her best memory was when her thrill turned to fear as a leopard walked underneath Jill’s safari vehicle – an incident captured on video that will be shared during her talk. \nJill Hedgecock’s long-standing roots run deep with the Mount Diablo Audubon Society\, serving as the International Conservation Coordinator in the early 1990s\, as a leader of the Black Diamond Mine Christmas count circle for many years\, and as a reporter covering the Christmas Bird Count for the last two years. She has a master’s degree in Environmental Management from the University of San Francisco. Her novel about a seventeen-year-old girl on safari who finds herself at odds with rhino poachers will be available for purchase at the meeting.  To learn more about Jill’s books visit www.jillhedgecock.com.
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/monthly-program-december-2019/
LOCATION:The Camellia Room at The Gardens at Heather Farm\, 1540 Marchbanks Drive\, Walnut Creek\, CA\, 94598\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Program
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ariana Rickard":MAILTO:arianajrickard@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T210000
DTSTAMP:20260508T091001
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SUMMARY:Monthly Program: November 2019
DESCRIPTION:Birding info: Kendall Oei will introduce you to the iNaturalist app and website\, with a brief overview of what iNaturalist can do for you and a demonstration of how to create an entry. \nMain Program: Hummingbirds with Kristiina Hurme and Alejandro Rico-Guevara \n“To Feed or To Fight: Energetics and Weapons” Energetically constrained animals have evolved adaptations to enhance caloric intake. On the other hand\, animal competition sometimes turns into physical combat\, and particular weaponry evolves. In this talk\, Kristiina and Alejandro will present theoretical and empirical findings on each of these fronts\, along with a case study of their intersection\, namely\, hummingbird bill weapons. These discoveries revive questions dating back to Darwin and Wallace about how these birds budget energy gain and expenditure to enable hovering\, the most expensive form of locomotion\, establishing coevolutionary relationships with flowers. These novel perspectives of a data-rich mutualistic system\, open the door to quantitative and comparative assessments of trade-offs between energy optimality and fighting proficiency.\n\nKristiina Hurme and Alejandro Rico-Guevara are two bird lovers and biologists\, from Princeton and Universidad Nacional de Colombia\, respectively. They earned their doctoral degrees at the University of Connecticut\, are affiliated with the Flight Lab at the Biology Department\, UC Berkeley\, and will start as faculty at the University of Washington\, Seattle\, next year. They study hummingbird feeding\, fighting\, communication\, learning\, vision and other behaviors by slowly habituating them to new feeders\, cameras\, etc. Their research was recently featured in the NY Times. Our subjects participate voluntarily\, they are not camera shy!
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/monthly-program-november-2019/
LOCATION:The Camellia Room at The Gardens at Heather Farm\, 1540 Marchbanks Drive\, Walnut Creek\, CA\, 94598\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Program
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ORGANIZER;CN="Maren Smith":MAILTO:marensmithbkk@yahoo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T160000
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SUMMARY:Back to Nature Event\, Wild Birds Unlimited
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 5\, 2019\, 10 AM-4 PM\n692 Contra Costa Blvd\, Pleasant Hill\, CA 94523 \nThis is Wild Birds Unlimited’s 28th year sponsoring a Nature Event\, giving you the chance to meet and learn about organizations working to protect our local wildlife and environment. This will be a family event even the kids will love\, with a live bald eagle\, birds\, bugs\, snakes\, and spiders. Nature artists and authors will show their creations. Mt. Diablo Audubon will have a table along with many area conservation groups. To volunteer\, please contact Susana de Trapaga at outreach@mtdiabloaudubon.org
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/back-to-nature-event-wild-birds-unlimited/
LOCATION:Wild Birds Unlimited\, Pleasant Hill\, 692 Contra Costa Blvd\, Pleasant Hill\, CA\, 94523\, United States
CATEGORIES:Outreach
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T210000
DTSTAMP:20260508T091001
CREATED:20190701T164431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190927T145628Z
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SUMMARY:Monthly Program: October 2019
DESCRIPTION:Birding Info: Cassie Tzur\, active MDAS member\, has put together a slide show of nature/wildlife through the seasons in nearby Rossmoor.  It is based on her photo book\, “The Nature of Rossmoor”.  She will have the book available for sale after her presentation. \nMain Program: Double-crested Cormorants with Meredith Elliott and Mark Rauzon \n \nDouble-crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) are seabirds known to use urban structures as nesting habitat. The old east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the eastern portion of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge have hosted the two largest colonies of this species in the region. Come learn what our research for the past three decades tell us about the population dynamics of this resilient species and learn about our efforts to study the Bay Area population of this adaptable\, yet maligned\, bird. \nMark Rauzon was with the US Fish and Wildlife Service\, where he studied sea birds and endangered marine mammals in Hawai’i\, Alaska\, and California. Mr. Rauzon is also a research associate with Point Blue Conservation Science and a Geography professor at Laney College in Oakland. \nMeredith Elliott is a Senior Scientist at Point Blue Conservation Science and has worked on a variety of seabird monitoring and diet projects\, as well as researching zooplankton communities in Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries.
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/monthly-program-october-2019/
LOCATION:The Camellia Room at The Gardens at Heather Farm\, 1540 Marchbanks Drive\, Walnut Creek\, CA\, 94598\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190905T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190905T210000
DTSTAMP:20260508T091001
CREATED:20190611T172710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190902T021351Z
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SUMMARY:Monthly Program: Albatrosses
DESCRIPTION:Birding Information: Live Birds with Native Bird Connections \nJoin Jenny Papka to meet a mystery pair of Native Bird Connections’ new birds. You do not want to miss this! \nMain Program: Home to the world’s largest albatross nesting colony\, Midway Atoll also hosts a team of volunteer “bird counters” each winter who determine just how many birds are nesting. This past winter\, JD Bergeron joined the census team. \nBergeron\, the executive director of International Bird Rescue\, will sharehis experiences on the remote site\, more than 1\,300 miles northwest of\nHonolulu. He will explain how he spent his holidays helping to methodically cover the island\, which is also known for its population of endangered Hawaiian monk seals\, Laysan ducks and Wisdom\, the oldest known wild bird in the Bird Banding Lab’s database. Scientists and volunteers have been conducting the annual albatross census on Midway since 1991\, providing an unusually thorough record of this distinctive seabird colony. \nDoors open at 6:30 pm\, Birding Info program takes place at 7 pm\, and the main program at 8 pm. The program will take place in the Camellia Room at The Gardens at Heather Farm\, 1540 Marchbanks Drive\, Walnut Creek.
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/monthly-program-albatrosses/
LOCATION:The Camellia Room at The Gardens at Heather Farm\, 1540 Marchbanks Drive\, Walnut Creek\, CA\, 94598\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190629T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190629T160000
DTSTAMP:20260508T091002
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190620T230552Z
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SUMMARY:Beaver Festival
DESCRIPTION:MDAS will be exhibiting at the 12th annual Beaver Festival\, which will be held on Saturday\, June 29\, from 11 am-4 pm in Susana Park\, located at Estudillo and Susana Street in Martinez. There will be live music\, wildlife booths\, beaver tours and children’s activities. Why should a birder make time for a beaver festival? Beavers help birds – increasing fish and insects and creating wetland habitat. The tools of curiosity\, community engagement\, and public outcry that saved the Martinez beavers can help Audubon as well.
URL:https://mtdiablobirds.org/event/beaver-festival/
CATEGORIES:Education
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