Bird Conservation at the Backyard Level

Many issues in bird conservation impact birds at regional, national, or even global scales. But there are also many opportunities to safeguard and foster local bird populations around your own home. Birders often aim to directly help backyard birds with feeders, nest boxes, bird baths, and plantings: how can the benefits of these tools be maximized, while avoiding potentially negative side effects? At the same time, humans often unintentionally harm birds when we are unaware of both our detrimental impacts and viable alternatives: how can we ameliorate the harm caused by window strikes, pesticide and rodenticide use, and cat predation? In this presentation, Jack Gedney will touch on a variety of ways in which your own actions can support local birds and give you the knowledge to spread better practices among your neighborhood and community.

This talk at the Richardson Bay Audubon Center in Tiburon is part of Marin Audubon Society’s ongoing Speaker Series and will take place at 7:30 PM on Thursday, March 14. The talk will last about one hour, with time for questions afterwards. These monthly presentations are free and open to the public with no advance registration required. Details on other upcoming speaker events can be found on Marin Audubon’s website.

Location: The Speaker Series meetings are held in the Blue Classroom on the grounds of the Richardson Bay Audubon Center and Sanctuary in Tiburon. The address is 376 Greenwood Beach Road, Tiburon. The Blue Classroom is connected to the sanctuary’s office building, and you enter through a gate that opens to a wooden staircase leading down to the office building complex. You can also get there by walking down the steep concrete driveway into an open gate that leads directly to the office building complex. Please note that the Lyford House (the large yellow Victorian house near the waterfront) is not the location for these meetings and the gate that leads to that house is locked up at night.