Oiled Bird Feather Demo
Sunday, 11am, Building 34, Mare Island
Speech by Cheryl Reynolds
International Bird Rescue
www.birdrescue.org
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Speaker will talk about the effects of oil spills on birds and demo best practices for cleaning feathers for rescued species.
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Yellowbilled Tours
Sunday, 12pm, Building 34, Mare Island
Speech by Rich Cimino
www.yellowbilledtours.com
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Rich will share his expertise about the birds of the Sierra Nevada and the Great Basin and will include a slide show and information including habitat discussion and will last about 45 min and includes Q&A.
The Pacific Flyway Center
Sunday, 1pm, Building 34, Mare Island
Speech by Veronica Cornett
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We are excited to share the amazing progress we have made on the new Pacific Flyway Center.
Live Bat Program
Sunday, 2pm, Building 34, Mare Island
Speech by Corky Quirk, Founder
www.norcalbats.org​​
Mary Jean (Corky) Quirk is the founder of NorCal Bats, an organization that provides care for injured bats and educational programs for libraries, school, nature programs, fairs and other events throughout the region. Corky has been working intensely with native bats since 2004 and has educated thousands of people. She works with injured and orphaned bats, returning them to the wild and keeps a captive colony of non-releasable bats for use in education.
She is also an experienced environmental educator who got her start with Camp Fire Boys and Girls. She has an undergraduate degree in natural resource planning and interpretation from Humboldt State University. She teaches three days a week at Yolo Basin Foundation, a wetland education program in the Sacramento Valley, in addition to her work with bats.
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KIDS
CRAFT!
Hummingbird Feeder
Activity For Kids
Saturday, 10–4, Napa Solano Audubon table,
Building 34, Mare Island
Instructed by: Carol Boykin,
Napa Solano Audubon Society
www.napasolanobirds.org
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Kids can make hummingbird feeders with provided materials.
KIDS
CRAFT!
Life History of Birds &
Pine Cone Bird Feeder Craft
Sunday, 1:30pm speech, 2pm Craft Activity
Building 34, Mare Island
Speech by Kathleen S. Farros-Hoeppner, Artist
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Kathleen will speak about birds and their life histories and follow up with a bird feeder art activity for participants. You can see her peach tree decorated cow that is part of the Vacaville cows on parade at this link. Don't miss this kids activity!
Farros works in ceramic sculpture, assemblage, and bronze, with attention to the painted surfaces. She combines social concepts, idioms, and fertility with Mother Nature subject matter in a narrative approach. Fertile valleys and nature originate from growing up in the San Joaquin Valley surrounded by agriculture, farming, and open spaces. Her subject matter often contains flora and fauna, utilizing juxtapositions of the plant and animal worlds.
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Birds of the Sacramento Valley: California’s Serengeti of the Skies
Sunday, 3pm, Building 34, Mare Island
Speech by: Andrew Engilis, Jr, Curator, Museum of Wildlife and Fisheries Biology, UC Davis
Napa Solano Audubon Society
mwfb.ucdavis.edu
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Speech will be all about Sacramento Valley birds.