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10/20/2026

Join our SYRCL - The South Yuba River Citizens League partners for a combined restoration tour and volunteer opportunity at Haskell Peak Meadows this Saturday, 10/24! Learn more: https://shorturl.at/uxAfM

Curious about life on the Farallon Islands? Petaluma Porches spoke with Point Blue’s Principal Scientist and Farallon Pr...
10/20/2026

Curious about life on the Farallon Islands? Petaluma Porches spoke with Point Blue’s Principal Scientist and Farallon Program Leader, Pete Warzybok, about day-to-day life on the island, decades of research and monitoring, and the effects of this year’s El Niño. Read the full story: https://shorturl.at/o2EI0

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🌍🌱🤝 It's the first official day of , the 2026 United Nations Biodiversity conference taking place in Yerevan, Armenia!C...
10/19/2026

🌍🌱🤝 It's the first official day of , the 2026 United Nations Biodiversity conference taking place in Yerevan, Armenia!

COP17 unites governments, scientists, and organizations worldwide to address biodiversity loss and take action for nature. We’re thrilled to participate in this historic conference both as an accredited Observer organization to the Convention on Biological Diversity and as a member of the California Global Biodiversity Alliance steering committee.

Stay tuned for conference updates! We look forward to connecting with global partners, sharing our expertise, and working together to take collective action to protect our planet.

🎉👀🐦 That’s a wrap on the 48th Annual Rich Stallcup Bird-A-Thon! Teams of new and experienced birders headed to parks, tr...
10/16/2026

🎉👀🐦 That’s a wrap on the 48th Annual Rich Stallcup Bird-A-Thon!

Teams of new and experienced birders headed to parks, trails, and backyards to identify as many bird species as possible within a 24-hour period. Thanks to your efforts, $140,000 and counting has been raised to support Point Blue’s mission to conserve birds, wildlife, and ecosystems through science, partnerships, and outreach!

Whether you counted birds, supported a team, cheered from afar, or helped spread the word, your participation makes a real difference for birds and the habitats they rely on. Thank you. 💙

See the results and read the highlights 👉 www.pointblue.org/birdathon

📸: 1 + 2: CASA Wrens Bird-A-Thon Walk (PC Anne Chadwick), 3: American Kestrel at Bilingual Bird-A-Thon Walk with Los Pajaritos Alegres de Novato Baylands (PC Matt Keller), 4: Downtown Dabblers Bird-A-Thon Walk (PC Lishka Arata), 5: Virginia Rail at Bilingual Bird-A-Thon Walk with Los Pajaritos Alegres de Novato Baylands (PC Matt Keller)

You’ve heard of Bird-A-Thon, but what about the Farallonathon? 🦈Since 1992, our Farallon crew has put their own spin on ...
10/15/2026

You’ve heard of Bird-A-Thon, but what about the Farallonathon? 🦈

Since 1992, our Farallon crew has put their own spin on Point Blue’s annual fundraiser, hosting an annual week-long bioblitz celebrating the islands’ incredible biodiversity. Points are awarded for each unique species spotted, including birds, mammals, dragonflies, butterflies, sharks, and even the island’s endemic salamanders and crickets. Rare species, new island records, and shark attack sightings score extra points!
Some highlights from the 34th annual Farallonathon:

🐦 A rare Cocos B***y sighting on Day 1
🐦 2 Great White Shark attacks
🐦 The sighting of a lone Varied Thrush on the West End
🐦 Migrant birds like Bobolink, Lawrence's Goldfinch, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, and Lapland Longspur
🐦 3 Black-vented Shearwaters (likely getting pushed north by the Super El Niño!)

We ended the week with 124 points! Check out some of our favorite moments!

📸: 1: Bobolink, 2: Lapland Longspur, 3: Lawrence's Goldfinch, 4: Varied Thrush (Photos by Jim Tietz/Point Blue)

Happy World Migratory Bird Day!Today, we celebrate the awe-inspiring journeys of migratory birds. At Point Blue, we prot...
10/10/2026

Happy World Migratory Bird Day!

Today, we celebrate the awe-inspiring journeys of migratory birds. At Point Blue, we protect these incredible travelers by restoring critical habitat, conducting long-term research and monitoring, and collaborating with partners and landowners to implement conservation solutions that support birds throughout their migration. Through projects like BirdReturns, the Migratory Shorebird Project, the Pacific Flyway Shorebird Survey, and the Intermountain West Shorebird Survey, we help ensure migratory birds have safe stopovers, healthy habitats, and the resources they need to thrive.

But you don’t need to be a scientist to contribute to conservation! All of these projects rely on community-powered data! Volunteer to count birds for science with Point Blue www.pointblue.org/engage-with-us/volunteer/ or get started by downloading eBird or iNaturalist. Your observations help scientists track changes in bird populations and inform conservation action.

update: After tagging 75 California sea lion pups on Southeast Farallon Island, the Farallon crew moved its tagging op...
10/09/2026

update: After tagging 75 California sea lion pups on Southeast Farallon Island, the Farallon crew moved its tagging operation to West End Island, where we tagged 200 northern fur seal pups in just 4 days!

The two islands are about 30 meters apart, and we used a zip line to cross the channel separating the islands. When entering West End, we were greeted by a new cacophony of sounds – the haunting clicks of the fur seal adults, the deep rumbling growls of the bulls, and the goat-like bleating of the pups. Although sea lion pups are nearly twice as heavy as fur seal pups, fur seal pups are much feistier and more similar in attitude to gremlins than sea lions. Our fur seal tagging adventures on West End are one of the highlights of the fall season.

🎉👀🐦 We’re in the final week of the 48th Annual Rich Stallcup Bird‑A‑Thon!Together, we’ve raised an incredible $121,000 t...
10/08/2026

🎉👀🐦 We’re in the final week of the 48th Annual Rich Stallcup Bird‑A‑Thon!

Together, we’ve raised an incredible $121,000 toward our $125,000 goal. Thank you to everyone who has already participated. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to join in on the fun! The Bird-A-Thon runs through October 15th, so pick a day, head outside, and see how many bird species you can identify by sight or sound. Please help us keep the momentum going and reach our $125,000 goal! 💙

Learn more, sign up, and donate: www.pointblue.org/birdathon

📓🐦 Just posted! Check out the Palomarin summer banding summary!This season at the Palomarin Field Station and other West...
10/06/2026

📓🐦 Just posted! Check out the Palomarin summer banding summary!

This season at the Palomarin Field Station and other West Marin banding sites, we captured a total of 1,284 birds! Some highlights:

🐤 The first Hermit Warbler capture of the season on June 13th
🦅 A juvenile Cooper’s Hawk at Palo Grid Uppers
🔎 A tricky-to-identify Marsh Wren that kept banders guessing!
🐦 A rare capture of a Band-tailed Pigeon (because these birds are so strong and large, they are more likely to tear through a mist net than get caught in one!)

Check out the full blog post for details on this season’s most exciting captures, observations, and stats: https://shorturl.at/rsimH

📸: 1: Female Hermit Warbler (PC Yuna Chitea) 2: Juvenile Cooper’s Hawk (PC Yuna Chitea), 3: Two Black-headed Grosbeaks (PC Sarah Needles), 4: MacGillivray’s Warbler (PC: June Yost) 5: Wing of a female Tree Swallow (PC: June Yost).

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