The September 2022 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 among the usual features are:
An extended fond farewell to Wayne Weber
The inaugural For Your Ears Only Column
A report on the Smithers conference – see what you missed!
A wonderful tale of eagle de-tangling
A Greater Sage-Grouse sighting of a lifetime
A double helping for bird photographers
Nine pages of BCFO and BC birding news
Four briefings on ornithological studies
Another update on BC paleo-ornithology
A Marbled Murrelet study report
And plenty more, plus some great photographs
PLUS an unexpected technique for attracting puffins and terns to your window feeder.
Print subscribers ($12 annually allows you to linger over the magazine in paper form) will receive their copy through the post in due course – and for the first time, it will be in full colour.
BCFO is again pleased to present another of our ‘Featured Photographers’, #24 in this stimulating series. Bob Steventon hails from Prince George. See his story and images here.
Reminder for BCFO members: The next in our very popular series of birding travel presentations takes place next Wednesday, April 20th. This time we’re off to Papua New Guinea with Peter Candido.
With three directors reaching the end of their term limits in 2022, BCFO is seeking potential nominees to its Board of Directors from both within, and from outside its current membership.
Although BCFO membership is required for board members, we anticipate that non-members may have an interest in being active in the provincial ornithological community through engagement in BCFO at the director level.
Our organization not only manages the BC Bird Records program, but also publishes the refereed ornithological journal, British Columbia Birds. In addition it engages young birders through its annual Young Birder Awards.
Most members are keen birders, including both amateur birders and professional ornithologists. Annual listing reports are published in our quarterly news magazine BC Birding, and members participate in many citizen science projects such as the Breeding Bird Survey, Coastal Waterbird Survey, Nocturnal Owl Survey, and Christmas Bird Counts.
Our annual conference is held at a different location each year, focusing on bird-rich areas of the Province. Elections of Board members will take place this year at our conference in Smithers, BC, June 25, 2022.
BCFO strives to maintain representation of the entire provincial birding community by selecting members from varied regions of the province and of varied backgrounds. To ensure that the Board is inclusive of the diversity within the provincial birding community, women, Indigenous Peoples, Black and people of colour, persons with disabilities, persons of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (LGBTQIA2S+), and others are strongly encouraged to apply.
To express your interest in being nominated, or to seek additional information, please contact Gary Davidson, BCFO president.
