The Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary in Tiberon just wrapped up its 2010 summer camps. More than 500 campers ages 4 through 11 had a blast exploring our Sanctuary and all things nature with Audubon Summer Adventures. Campers delved into sharks, bugs, water, birds, trees, dirt, compost, geology, bay science, lichens, sand, decomposers, snakes, [...]

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Audubon California and local chapters in California have long felt that nature education is conservation. What this means is that if we want to protect the state’s magnificent natural treasures into the future, we need to ensure that the next generation of Californians appreciates the great outdoors as much as we do. In an effort [...]

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The Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary’s Junior Naturalist program is an exciting way for older kids to share what they’ve learned with youngsters while continuing to learn about nature.

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Yesterday we talked about the end of banding season at the Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary, but that’s not the only Audubon California site that wrapped up its season recently. Last Saturday, volunteer banders at the Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary also held their last session of the season. The day’s total included 16 birds [...]

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The Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary’s director, Brooke Langston, get a nice profile in the local Marin Independent Journal. Great quote:
Q: What do people misunderstand about what you do?
A: That this is hard work, and it was hard work just to be in this career path. Lots of people say, “Oh, you are so [...]

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We’ve talked a lot about today’s Kids’ Ocean Day event at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, which was organized by the Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary. Here’s the big shot from the event, the overhead photo of the kids forming the picture of an albatross, with the words “Sustain Life.” Awesome. Photo by Kevin [...]

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The Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary in Tiburon today helped organize a terrific beach clean-up and public art project for 500 elementary school students from San Francisco and Marin to recognize Kids’ Ocean Day. Working in partnership with the California Coastal Commission, the Center gave in-school presentations at the school during the day’s leading [...]

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Five hundred elementary school students from San Francisco and Marin County on the morning of May 27 will form a giant albatross design on the sand at Ocean Beach to publicize the need to protect marine environments. The group art project, viewable from the air, will take place after a beach clean up, part of [...]

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Hey, California has oil platforms, too. And oil tankers moving up and down the coast, and in our major harbors. So with the Gulf oil spill in the background, and the 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill in everyone’s memory, experts from government agencies and concerned nonprofits gathered in Oakland yesterday to talk about response plans [...]

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As you may know, our own Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary was heavily involved in the Cosco Busan oil spill in the San Francisco Bay. Brooke Langston, the Center’s Director, is sharing a lot of what she learned with her counterparts in Louisiana and Mississippi. She discusses that in this interview with Audubon Magazine.
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Author and illustrator John Muir Laws recently stopped by the Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary to talk about his new Laws Guides to the San Francisco Bay Area and to demonstrate how they can be used. Enjoy:

To learn more about the Guides, visit our website.
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Every once in a while, we like to let you know what kinds of birds we’re seeing at Audubon California’s various sites around the state. Highlights this time around include Bald Eagle, Black-bellied Plover (pictured, USFWS file photo), Grasshopper Sparrow and Gray Flycatcher. Here’s the breakdown from a few places:
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The folks from Audubon Guides recently came out to the Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary and donated an iPod Touch loaded with their Audubon Birds application to the Center. In the video below, Charlie Rattigan from Green Mountain Digital, maker of the application, talks about the application’s possible use as an education tool:

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Got an interesting note from our colleagues at the Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary this week. On Wednesday, Sanctuary Manager Kerry Wilcox spotted what appeared to be a hybrid Bufflehead/Common Goldeneye during a survey.  Volunteers confirmed it later.  The next day, Len Blumin spotted the bird in the same area and got a few pictures from more [...]

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Apparently, the waterbirds are booming at the Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary. A winter survey of birds completed this week counted more birds than we’ve had since starting these surveys back in 2006. The folks at Richardson Bay conduct these surveys twice monthly between October and March. The unofficial count for the Sanctuary was [...]

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