Connecting People with Birds
Our mission is to share the fun of birding, promote conservation and scientific understanding of wild birds and their habitats, and offer engaging, science-based education emphasizing the communities of Napa and Solano counties.
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Napa-Solano Birds is predominantly a volunteer organization. To make our programs successful we need membership involvement in all of our activities. Donating even a few hours of time can help a lot. There are all sorts of fun ways to get involved – from helping out with a classroom visit, bird walk or special event, to monitoring your own area for breeding birds. If you have time to lend a hand, click the Volunteer Button and let us know your interests!
Bird Family Galleries
Welcome to Napa Solano Audubon Society!
Bird of the Week – Elegant Tern – Photo by Larry Seamer
There have been an unusually large number of Elegant Terns in the Bay Area and along the coast at Point Reyes and Bodega Bay this Summer!
NSAS Presents: Finding More Birds with Heather Wolf
Thursday, September 10th at 7:00 p.m.
Napa Valley Lutheran Church
About the Program: Want to see more birds wherever you go? Join author Heather Wolf for an engaging presentation based on her newest book, Find More Birds: 111 Surprising Ways to Spot Birds Wherever You Are. Through photographs, stories, and practical tips, Heather will reveal how birds leave clues through their behavior, habitat, movement, sounds, and more—helping both beginners and experienced birders find species they may have overlooked. You’ll leave with a fresh perspective on the rich natural world unfolding around you every day.
About the Presenter: Heather Wolf is the author of Find More Birds and Birding at the Bridge. A Brooklyn-based birder, photographer, and educator, she works with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, teaches birding classes at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and shares her passion for birds through walks, talks, writing, and photography.
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Our Fall NSAS Newsletter is now Available
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Don’t Miss out on all of our Featured articles including: Cliff Swallows Return in the Spring, How a Bird’s Habits Can Change its Song, NSAS’s Amazing Field Trip to Mono Lake and the Eastern Sierras, and Conservation Woes Threaten Bird Habitats. It also features descriptions of our upcoming Fall Speaker Programs including: Finding More Birds with Heather Wolf, The Magic & Mystery of Migration with Bruce Mast and Birding Mono Lake and the Eastern Sierras with Mark Stephenson as well as our many activities and events in our Calendar Pages.
NSAS will be Starting Year 2 in the CA Breeding Bird Atlas Project
Before You Know It!
Join us for another breeding season of surprises as we discover new breeding birds in Napa & Solano! We are searching for Volunteers to help us cover our Survey Areas. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Mark Stephenson at . What is a Breeding Bird Atlas (BBA)? And why is it so important? A Breeding Bird Atlas (BBA) is a large-scale, multi-year project that documents the breeding distribution and activity of bird species within a specific geographic area, such as a state or county. It provides crucial data for understanding changes in bird populations and their habitats, informing conservation and management efforts. This current State-wide project, being coordinated by the California Bird Atlas organization, with well- known birder, Van Pierszalowski serving as the Executive Director, is especially important, as California is one of only 6 states that has never engaged in a state-wide atlas. In fact, only 16 of our 58 counties have ever published a BBA. We are proud of the work by our many volunteers who completed 2 of the 16 state-wide atlases in both Napa and Solano Counties in years past. However, it has been 32 years since NSAS completed the field work for the first Napa Breeding Bird Atlas in 1993. The information was published 10 years later in 2003. The field work for the first Solano County BBA was held from 2005-2010 more than 15 years ago and was published in 2014. Many changes have occurred in our area during the past 15–30 year span as a result of housing and urban development that are sure to have impacted birds and their habitats since our last BBAs were completed. A new BBA would be of huge value to document the changes to birds, our landscape, and consequential conservation needs and priorities.
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In order to support this endeavor, we are attempting to raise $10,000 to contribute to the success of this project. We are hoping that our members will value this project as much as our Board of Directors and support us during the coming months both as volunteer birders, and in or efforts to raise these funds. We would like to thank our members in advance for their incredible support over the years. We are hopeful this BBA Project will continue our important work of supporting birds and protecting critical habitats throughout our region and across our state. To help us with the costs of this project, please select the Donate Button at the top of this page. To read more about the BBA CLICK HERE!
NSAS September Field Trip to Humboldt County
Monday, September 21st – Wednesday, September 23rd with Mark Stephenson & Bruce Thomsen
Black-capped Chickadee
Trip Overview: This trip will be centered in Humboldt County and will explore the incredible habitats of the Northern California Coast. We will visit a number of locations based on recent sightings that may include Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, Arcata Bottoms, North Spit Jetty, Samoa Dunes, Mad River Estuary, Trinidad Harbor and Elk Head, Clam River State Beach, Humboldt Bay NWR, Ferndale Bottoms, Cannibal Island & Crab Park & Russ Ranch.
Target birds: A variety of waterfowl and shorebirds with Fall possibilities including Short-billed Dowitcher, Baird’s and Pectoral Sandpipers, Black Turnstone, Red Knot, Surf Bird, Wandering Tattler, Snowy Plover, Red-necked Phalarope, Elegant Tern, Common Tern, and other migrants. This is also peak passerine migration and other potential species include Violet-green and Bank Swallows; Willow Flycatcher, Varied Thrush, Yellow-breasted Chat, Black-capped Chickadee, Canada Jay, Red Crossbill, Townsend’s, Black-throated Gray and American Redstart Warblers as well as other Fall migrants and vagrants.
