Madrone Audubon Society
Established in 1967
The Sonoma County Chapter of the National Audubon Society
Madrone News and Events
Our bird walks and field trips are free, open to the public and suitable for all levels of interest. See upcoming walks.
The public is welcome at our monthly meetings with guest speakers. View our schedule.
Form a team of your birding friends and join in our annual fundraising effort. Learn more.
Upcoming Bird Walks
Thursday, August 13, 8:30 AM -10:30 AM
General Meeting and Presentation
Monday, September 21st, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
First United Methodist Church, 1551 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa
As always, the public is invited to these free programs.
Keith Hansen
For the Love of Birds and the Joy of Birding
Join Keith Hansen for a lively dive into what inspired him to take up illustrating birds and eventually to become a bird book author. He has recently finished his 13th and 14th books entitled Hansen’s Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada and The Birds of Point Reyes.
Keith, who comes from an artistic family, has been looking at birds from the age of 10 and illustrating them since the 12th grade. Growing up, he and his older brother Rob birded every spare moment they could, first in the woods of Maryland, before moving to Fresno, California in 1970. He did work at Point Reyes Bird Observatory’s Palomarin Field Station and then spent 9 years on the SE Farallon Island, where he banded, photographed and studied hundreds of birds up close. He has traveled extensively through the New World Tropics including Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, the Amazon, and the Galapagos, where he filmed 100s of species for his artwork. His current project is illustrating all the birds of N. America for an app called FLOCK.
Talk begins at 7pm. Come and join us!
The California Breeding Bird Atlas is Live!
Did you know that 44 states have completed Breeding Bird Atlases? And now California is joining that group. The 5-year California Bird Atlas (CBA) launched January 1.
Learn more at: www.californiabirdatlas.org/
Breeding bird atlases get us out in nature, hone our observation skills, teach us about the birds we love, and enable us to contribute to a landmark effort for California and its birds.
It’s easy to participate. For previous Sonoma County BBA volunteers, this Atlas uses the same grid and similar evidence codes to document breeding status. For eBirders, the website has simple instructions for linking CBA to your eBird mobile app. You’ll be part of a valuable and timely citizen science project. Check it out and join the fun!
