Part 1 (Marin and Sonoma Counties): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Part 2 (San Francisco, the Peninsula and East Bay): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Bird Behavior: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Rich Stallcup of PRBO Conservation Science recommends some great places to view birds during spring migration (March through June). Part 1 covers places in Marin and Sonoma Counties; part 2 covers places in San Francisco, the Peninsula and East Bay. We have also included a conversation we had with Rich about bird behavior.(Photo courtesy of Bob Battagin)

Learn more:

• PRBO Member Only Walks with Rich Stallcup

 

 Measuring Conservation in an Evolving Landscape [5:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

How do you measure the quality and effectiveness of environmental restoration? That’s the subject of this edition of Your Wetlands with San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Science Coordinator Christina Sloop.

Learn more:

Here is the link to the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Monitoring and Evaluation Plan

A lot is going on in the world of wetlands that surround San Francisco Bay during fall. In this program series, we hear from key Joint Venture partners – Beth Huning, Marc Holmes, and Diane Ross-Leach – on the following topics:

Funding Restoration Efforts (Marc Holmes-Part 2): Marc Holmes gives an update on the current state of funding for restoration efforts.

SFBJV’s 15-Year Anniversary: Diane Ross-Leach, San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Management Board Chair, talks about the Joint Venture’s accomplishments during its first 15 years.

Scale of Wetlands Restoration (Marc Holmes-Part 1): Marc Holmes is the director of The Bay Institute’s Restoration Program as well as a member of the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture (SFBJV) Management Board. Marc has an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of efforts to restore wetlands around the San Francisco Bay. On this report, he talks about how the scale of restoration has changed since the inception of the SFBJV.

Fall Birding with Beth Huning: Beth Huning, Coordinator of the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture and an avid birder herself, provides suggestions for places to catch the fall migration of a variety of birds (links to bird watching hotspots are below!)

 

 Funding Restoration Efforts (Marc Holmes-Part 2): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 SFBJV's 15-Year Anniversary: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Scale of Wetlands Restoration (Marc Holmes-Part 1): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Fall Birding with Beth Huning: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Learn more:

Book Link: The San Francisco Bay Joint Venture – Celebrating 15 years of partnerships protecting wetlands and wildlife [5.3 MB PDF]

Bird Watching: For those of you following Beth’s Bay Area hotspots for bird watching during fall migration, here are some links to the places she mentions where you can find more information and directions to these locations!

South Bay:
• Eden Landing
• Hayward Interpretive Center
• Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge
• Dumbarton Bridge (pond SF2)

North Bay:

• Napa Sonoma Marshes
• Highway 37 Audio Tour
• Tubbs Island
• Audubon Center and Sanctuary
• Blackie’s Pasture/Bike Path

A lot is going on in the world of wetlands that surround San Francisco Bay. In this August program series, we hear from three key Joint Venture partners about local birding hotspots, current wetlands restoration projects and the release of the first regional State of the Birds Report.

Birding Around the Bay With Beth Huning: The first program in the series features San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Coordinator Beth Huning who shares a plethora of Bay Area birding spots, with some birding identification tips, what you are likely to see and when, as well as other natural history events happening here in the coming months.

What is Going On? With SFBJV Conservation Delivery Chair Marc Holmes: On the second program in this series, Marc talks about some of the Joint Venture’s more current wetland restoration projects that are turning the tide on a history of wetland destruction and bringing back wildlife habitat around the Bay.

The SF Bay State of the Birds Report with SFBJV Outreach Chair Melissa Pitkin: In 2009 the first State of the Birds Report was distributed nationally. This September, PRBO Conservation Science and the SFBJV, along with over 20 contributing bird conservation scientists, are releasing the first regional State of the Birds Report for the Bay Area. (This is the final report in the Summer on the Wetlands series.)

 

 Birding Around the Bay With Beth Huning: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 What is Going On? With SFBJV Conservation Delivery Chair Marc Holmes: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 The SF Bay State of the Birds Report with SFBJV Outreach Chair Melissa Pitkin: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Learn more:

• San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Events Page
• San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Partners
• Bay Nature Events
• State of the Birds Report (link will be available soon)