As we approach the season of giving, we invite you as a supporter of SCVAS to make a 2024 gift with a Direct Distribution from your traditional IRA.
SCVAS is offering a two-part online class (beginning/intermediate-level) on one of our most confusing groups—the Flycatchers! Class members will gain access to our private discussion group where you can pose questions or photos. Matthew Dodder will be your instructor. Sign up and join the fun!
Monday: March 15 & March 22, 7:00 - 8:30 PM via Zoom. Sign Up Now →
The California Bird Atlas Project kicked off January 1, has already collected over 19,000 checklists from over 1,400 birders, and you can help make this project a success! All you need to get started is an eBird account.
The Bay Area Bird Photographers is proud to present Alan Adler who will present this Wednesday evening, February 4, via Zoom at 7:30PM.
After decades of development pressure, Juristac has finally turned a corner. A major land acquisition has permanently protected more than 6,100 acres of this iconic South County landscape—safeguarding wildlife habitat, a sacred cultural site, and rare geological features for generations to come.
Birdathon begins March 25 with a pizza social at McClellan Ranch! Join or make a team of your own, and join us in birding for a cause!
Join us for a speaker series celebrating birders on February 18 at 7pm! We’re joined by Scott Harris, a wildlife photographer, podcaster, and author, who will be sharing stories from his book, Why We Love Birds: 52 Birders on Birding.
Field trip registration opens Jan 21 at 8 pm. Preview trips now. To be informed of last-minute open spots on our field trips, sign-up for South Bay Bird Events.
Join the Bay Area Bird Photographers for an evening of color! Tune in Wednesday, January 7 at 7:30pm for an evening with Corey Rafel as he shares his work featuring the Psittacidae family.
Join SCVBA on January 21 as we learn about Burrowing Owls and the conservation challenges surrounding them from local expert, Philip Higgins!
CBC, books for young bird-lovers, amazing volunteers, and more! Check out the Winter 2025 edition of The Avocet.
The 2025 San Francisco Bay State of the Birds report has been released, and is showing some interesting population trends amongst our wetland-loving birds. We recommend any birder, nature-lover, or conservation-minded individual take a look at this report.
We made amazing memories with all of you during our Centennial Celebration! Take a look back on some of the fun we had together.
Retirement comes for all of us, and we would like to take a moment to acknowledge and celebrate the accomplishments of long-time volunteer, Lee Pauser, as he reflects on his lengthy career supporting and caring for our native cavity-nesters.
Join BABP December 3rd for a virtual tour of India’s birds with Jeet Aman! Program begins at 7:30PM.
As the year draws to a close we want to remind you there is more than one way to give.
What we do can’t be done without you. As the year draws to a close, we ask that you renew your support for our mission — bringing the joy of birds to every part of our community.
100 years is a lot to celebrate, and while we couldn’t cover even a fraction of what we’ve done in a century, we hope you’ll take a look at some of our favorite moments of birding, captured from around our county.
We’re learning all about H5N1 with Jack Aronian, a student birder and filmmaker from New York, just in time for the seasonal flu spike! Join us Wednesday, November 19th at 7pm for this month’s Speaker Series!
We were joined by some journalists from Palo Alto Online for a few of our centennial field trips last month. Take a look at what they discovered with us!
Check out the Mountain View Voice’s coverage of our latest vagrant superstar in the county - the Dark-sided Flycatcher.
Join the BABP on November 5th, 7pm, for a journey through the varied habitats of India with Vinayak Hebbagil and Shweta Shirdore!
