Birdy Hour: Designing More Equitable Climate Solutions

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Join San Jose State University Professor Dr. Costanza Rampini for a discussion on whose values and voices are prioritized in climate change solutions. Dr. Rampini, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, will inquire into who will benefit, who will lose, and who will be left out as different countries, regions, cities, and communities try to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and implement strategies to cope with the impacts of climate change.

Plover and Tern Mud Stomp 2024

Two young 2022 volunteers on an oyster shell pile. Credit: Laura Cholodenko
Two young 2022 volunteers on an oyster shell pile. Credit: Laura Cholodenko

You can join the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO) and the Restoration Project to help improve nesting habitat for threatened western snowy plovers and endangered California least terns! Staff and volunteers will spread oyster shells donated from area restaurants on a dry pond bottom. 

This event is open to all ages, but please note that there are no restroom facilities at the site. Volunteers will have to drive on a graded dirt road for a short distance. Due to access restrictions, all volunteers will need to stay for the duration of the event.

Bird Walk at Pond SF2

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Join a Refuge biologist for a leisurely morning stroll to view shorebirds that frequent the Pond SF2! This will be an interpretive guided tour to learn about resident bird species, migratory birds and the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project. Many migratory waterfowl are traveling through the Bay Area from October through January along what is known as the Pacific Flyway migratory path. This free event is open to all, but registration is required. Register here.

Self-Guided Volunteer Opportunity: February 2024 King Tides in Alviso

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Interested in a volunteer opportunity you can do for school, work, or just for fun, that you can do on your own or with your household? Calling middle and high school students and scout groups! Come to the Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge and take photos to record the high tides called King Tides. The Refuge has a few spots around Alviso to view the year's highest tides. Participants will snap photos and submit them to the Refuge's Friends organization, the San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society, at [email protected].

Volunteer Habitat Restoration Day at Eden Landing

SFBBO volunteers at Eden Landing. Credit: SFBBO
SFBBO volunteers at Eden Landing. Credit: SFBBO

Join SFBBO ecologists to help restore habitat for birds and other wildlife at Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in Union City! Volunteers will get to tour a restoration site that was just seeded and planted by SFBBO in fall-winter 2022-2023. The restoration site is not normally accessible to the public, so volunteers will get special access to a restricted area while helping SFBBO put in native plants grown in their nursery.

Habitat Restoration at Eden Landing (Hayward)

Save The Bay volunteers at Eden Landing. Credit: Save The Bay
Save The Bay volunteers at Eden Landing. Credit: Save The Bay

Come join Save The Bay at Eden Landing Ecological Reserve to help restore former industrial salt ponds into healthy salt marsh habitat! They will be pulling invasive plants using hand picks and gloves to give the native marsh plants put in over the winter a chance to establish themselves.

See here for registration and more information.

Native Salt Marsh Restoration at Ravenswood R4!

Save The Bay volunteer at Ravenswood. Credit: Save The Bay
Save The Bay volunteer at Ravenswood. Credit: Save The Bay

Come join Save The Bay at Ravenswood and help protect marshes from invasive plants! Invasive species degrade habitat by crowding out the California native species that our landscapes and wildlife have adapted to live with. Save The Bay will be pulling invasive plant species to make way for the native plants that staff and volunteers put in the ground. This will transform the degraded habitat around the pond the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project recently breached into healthy salt marsh habitat, giving wildlife good homes and our communities nature-based sea level rise protection!