San Mateo County, California
Meeting Programs
NOTE: There may be "last minute" changes beyond our control. Thanks for understanding. |
April 13, 2023 –Hybrid Meeting.
New Zealand and New Caledonia
Robert Siegel, MD PhD
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New Zealand and New Caledonia
In this talk, Robert Siegel will provide an update on his quest to photograph every order of birds. He will focus on the birds of New Caledonia and the North Island of New Zealand in his pursuit of Eurypygiformes and Apterygiformes.
Robert Siegel, MD PhD is a professor at Stanford University in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. His courses focus on human viral infections, nature photography, and biogeography. He has traveled to seven continents and has taught field seminars in the Pantanal, the Galapagos, Madagascar, Tanzania, Namibia, England, China, Tasmania, and Joshua Tree, as well as full-length courses in Oxford, Santiago, and Cape Town. Dr. Siegel has served in an advisory capacity for a variety of international NGOs, and organizations.
Dr. Siegel has won numerous teaching awards.
May 11, 2023 –Zoom Meeting.
The Chinstrap Penguins of Elephant Island
Noah Strycker
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The Chinstrap Penguins of Elephant Island
Antarctica's windswept Elephant Island may be best known as the bleak refuge of British explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew after they lost their ship Endurance in 1916. Today, the island is a stronghold for thousands of nesting Chinstrap Penguins. To find out how these penguins are faring, Noah Strycker traveled to the island in 2021 with a team of Stony Brook University researchers on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza. Their mission was to count the penguins breeding there—a feat that had been done only once before, 50 years earlier by a British Joint Services expedition. From Endurance to Esperanza, Strycker recounts the adventures of life on the Southern Ocean—and follows the changing fortunes of the Chinstrap Penguins of Elephant Island. This presentation will give you an uncommon view of the most common penguin in the Antarctic.
Noah Strycker is Associate Editor of Birding magazine, the author of six well-regarded books about birds, a penguin scientist, and a regular contributor of photography and articles to all major bird magazines. In 2021, he earned a master's degree with honors from New York's Stony Brook University, focusing his research on Chinstrap Penguins. In 2015, Strycker set a world Big Year record, and his book, Birding Without Borders, relates the experience. He's written numerous books. Strycker has studied birds on six continents with field seasons in Panama, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Australia, Antarctica, the Galapagos Islands, and the Farallon Islands. He also works as a naturalist guide on expeditions to Antarctica and Norway's Svalbard archipelago, literally spreading the inspiration of birds from pole to pole.
June 8, 2023 –Hybrid Meeting.
Share Your Spark Bird Story
Jennifer Rycenga
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Share Your Spark Bird Story
The "spark bird" is that particular bird and moment that lured you into the lifestyle we call birding! Tonight, we will share our stories of spark birds. Get your story ready, no more than 3-5 minutes long, and paint the picture in words of this special moment and special bird! We will have some special guest appearances via video and ZOOM, but this meeting will also be held live at the Garden Center, with refreshments and good times as we bid farewell to our outgoing President and Program Chair.
Reminder: there are no meetings/programs in July and August.
Session Recordings:
Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting March 9, 2022
Creating fire resiliency while supporting biodiversity
Cat Chang and Maru Echeverria
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting February 9, 2022
Scoping Out Tomorrow: A vision for helping young people make birds a permanent part of their lives
Jennie Duberstein
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting January 12, 2022
Kinship: Seabirds and the Human Connection to the Ocean
Sea McKeon
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting November 10, 2022
Longitudinally Yours – A Decade of Grassroots BioBlitzes in the Bay Area
Jennifer Rycenga, Sequoia Audubon President and Merav Vonshak, BioBlitz Club President
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting October 13, 2022
California Central Coast Joint Venture
Connor Jandreau, Conservation Coordinator
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting September 8, 2022
San Mateo County Raptor Palooza
Alvaro Jaramillo
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting June 9, 2022
In Defense of Plants
Sara Scharf
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting May 12, 2022
The Condor Comeback
Kara Fadden, Ventana Wildlife Society
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting April 14, 2022
Birds, Bees and More!
with Madeline Morrow
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Ornitherapy
with Holly Merker
The presenter has requested the program recording be made available only to Sequoia Audubon Society members. Please email office@sequoia-audubon.org for the link to the meeting video.
Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting February 10, 2022
Laura's Best Bird EVER! I went looking for birds and found joy, love, redemption, and more.
with Laura Erickson
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting January 13, 2022
Birds of Protected Lands: The Peninsula Open Space Trust
with Diane and Peter Hart
Meeting Recording
2021
Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting December 9, 2021
Birds & Wildlife of the Western Pacific
with Joe Morlan
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting October 14, 2021
A Message of Hope
Heath Packard, Island Conservation
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting Septermber 9, 2021
Encouraging Birders: Expanding What It Means to Be a Twenty-first Century Birder
A Multi-generational Discussion with Ted, Hannah, and Andrew Floyd
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting June 10, 2021
Hummingbirds: Small Wonders
with Sheri Williamson
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting May 13, 2021
Community Science: Long-Term Lessons:
Perspectives from Three Years of Mushroom Monitoring in the Santa Cruz Mountains
with Christian Schwarz
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting April 8, 2021
Gender Equity and Public Access on the California Coast
Sabrina Brennan, former San Mateo County Harbor Commissioner
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting March 11, 2021
Avian Wonders of Morocco with John Sterling
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting February 11, 2021
The Remarkable Story of Sam McDonald
Katherine Wright, San Mateo County Park Ranger
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting January 14, 2021
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird - Mary Ellen Hannibal
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2020
Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting December 10, 2020
"Skunks & their Role in California Habitats" with Jen Hunter
Meeting Recording
Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting November 12, 2020
Curiosity & Connection Through a Decade of Birding with Ioana Seritan
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Sequoia Audubon Society Presentation October 8, 2020
"Cape to Cape Birding" with Joe Morlan
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Sequoia Audubon Society Monthly Meeting September 10, 2020
Taxonomic Puzzles by Alvaro Jaramillo
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"Audubon's Climate Change Strategies" on May 14, 2020
with Juan Pablo Galván
Unedited recording of meeting. Meeting begins at 1:27; Program begins around 28:30
"The California Center for Natural History"
with Damon Tighe on April 9, 2020
Unedited recording of Damon Tighe's presentation and subsequent Q&A session.
The programs for additional meetings will be posted when available. (Topics subject to change.)