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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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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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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ariana Rickard":MAILTO:arianajrickard@gmail.com
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ariana Rickard":MAILTO:arianajrickard@gmail.com
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Maren Smith":MAILTO:marensmithbkk@yahoo.com
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