Botany for Birders - Saturday Field Trips

Registration opens on Wednesday May 6 at 1 pm and closes on Tuesday July 21 at 11 pm.  

Instructor: Glenn Phillips, gphillips@goldengatebirds.org

Description: Finding birds means finding a good habitat. This course aims to help you read the landscape better in your quest for birds and to provide tools to help you enable others to see what you are looking at. Through Zoom presentations and immersive field trips across the Bay Area, you  will learn to identify key plant species, interpret habitat structure, and make more accurate predictions about bird presence.

Recordings of the lecture presentations will be available to class participants for a limited amount of time.

Field Trip Locations:

July 25: Oak woodlands: Briones Regional Park, Lafayette ($5 parking per vehicle, cash only)

August 1: Salt marshes: Cogswell Marsh, Hayward Regional Shoreline, Hayward (no fees)

August 8: Coastal scrub: Marin Headlands, Golden Gate National Recreation Area

August 15: Redwood/mixed conifer forest: Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park                      ($5 parking per vehicle, cash only)

For field trips, we’ll be walking 1-2 miles on mostly level, hard-packed or paved trails. There will be benches or picnic tables for rest stops, and all sites have restrooms with flush toilets.

Four Thursday evening presentations by Zoom, July 23, 30; August 6, 13: 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

Four Saturday morning field trips, July 25; August 1, 8 , 15: 8 to 11 am.

Trip Size: Limited to 16 participants.

Price:  $210 ($168 for GGBA members, a 20% discount).

A reduced price is available for active GGBA field trip leaders. Please contact Chris Tarr ctarr@goldengatebirds.org to obtain the discount code to use when registering.