The meeting will have the usual business items of the Annual General Meeting. And, not to be missed, the AGM will be followed by an exclusive, for those joining us for the Zoom AGM, keynote presentation by David Bradley on the Long-billed Curlew project in the Prince George area.
We will again be placing items to be reviewed at the AGM (agenda, 2020 AGM minutes, financial report, and other documents) on the website when they are ready for members to review prior to the AGM here.
Similar to 2020, all members will receive an email notice regarding the AGM with the requirement to register for the Zoom meeting. This will be sent one week prior to the AGM.
BCFO is pleased to announce and make available to the public a Special Issue (vol 32) of British Columbia Birds devoted entirely to: The status, ecology and conservation of internationally important bird populations on the Fraser River Delta, British Columbia, Canada.
BCFO members should note that you will shortly receive an email with the new password for the Members area and a link to Volume 31 of British Columbia Birds.
Adam Dhalla, Young Birder Award recipient in 2017, has been working hard to merge his love of birds with his love of gaming. The result of his efforts and those of his co-creator, has just been released on the Apple App Store, and on Google Play.
Find the Birds is a free-to-download, free-to-play educational mobile game for all ages about birds & conservation.
Players travel the globe searching for birds and do conservation quests to help them. The first in-game location available in the release is Arizona, USA, and includes the critically endangered California Condor in its line-up of species. The second in-game location will be British Columbia, to be added this July.
Find the Birds is a great way for all ages to learn about nature & science safely during the pandemic in an environmentally friendly way. Games are of course zero-carbon.
Congratulations to Adam on this significant achievement. And as a footnote, it’s worth recalling that after Adam received the BCFO award in 2017 he went on to become recipient of the 2018 American Birding Association Young Birder of the Year Award.
Creston Valley Bird Festival goes virtual this year with live webinars plus some Covid-safe outdoor events. Registration opens April 1st. http://www.crestonvalleybirds.ca/
The BCFO is pleased to present the next in our series of Featured Photographers. Val hails from Victoria, and is a long-term member of BCFO known to many for his wide interests in natural history beyond birds. Check out Val’s photography here.
Next up in our Zoom presentations by members for members will be Alan Burger’s presentation Birds of the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic. In April Rand Rudland will present Madagascar – Endemism in a Threatened Landscape.
Times, dates, and details of the presentations are found in the Members area.
The March 2021 edition of BC Birding is now available in the Members Only section. (You will be emailed the URL if you’ve forgotten the password.)
Included are:
Complete listing tables for 2020
A great idea for covid birding (see Gone Pishing)
Wise words on leucism and on Salmonella
Fossil bird tracking as an extreme sport
Four Birders’ Briefings
Trip reports from home and abroad
The first ID tune-up
And lots more
Print subscribers ($12 annually allows you to read the magazine in traditional form) will receive their copy through the post in due course.
IMPORTANT NOTE. Details on the planned Smithers conference are included, but the decision to go ahead or cancel have NOT as yet been taken. Updates will be provided on the website and by email.
