Dear Friends,
Last fall we started celebrating SFBBO’s 40th Anniversary. As we move through a year of activities to honor this milestone, we are taking time to reflect upon our origins and the original intentions of our founders, and to think about the impact that our legacy has created in avian conservation and research to date. There is much to be proud of, and as SFBBO’s new Executive Director, I am both humbled and inspired by all of our past accomplishments, and excited to build on their foundation moving forward.
Our first newsletter was published in 1982, and in it, our first Executive Director, Mike Rigney, wrote about the “evolution” of the bird observatory when, eight years earlier, students in an adult education course decided to study bird populations in their neighborhoods and pool the information. Mike wrote about those early years: “There were no formal officers, no official headquarters, and no particular goals except the noble pronouncement at the bottom of our stationary: Dedicated to the study, preservation, and enjoyment of our native avifauna.”
Last fall we started celebrating SFBBO’s 40th Anniversary. As we move through a year of activities to honor this milestone, we are taking time to reflect upon our origins and the original intentions of our founders, and to think about the impact that our legacy has created in avian conservation and research to date. There is much to be proud of, and as SFBBO’s new Executive Director, I am both humbled and inspired by all of our past accomplishments, and excited to build on their foundation moving forward.
Our first newsletter was published in 1982, and in it, our first Executive Director, Mike Rigney, wrote about the “evolution” of the bird observatory when, eight years earlier, students in an adult education course decided to study bird populations in their neighborhoods and pool the information. Mike wrote about those early years: “There were no formal officers, no official headquarters, and no particular goals except the noble pronouncement at the bottom of our stationary: Dedicated to the study, preservation, and enjoyment of our native avifauna.”
Please join us in continuing to strive toward our founders’ goals to study, preserve, and enjoy birds and habitats by helping us raise $20,000 with a donation to our Spring Appeal today!
Our founders initiated a number of projects that continue to this day, including salt pond and colonial waterbird surveys, the Coyote Creek Field Station, and community outreach, and we’ve also added new project areas, including our habitats program. SFBBO depends on the generosity of partners and people in our community to meet our mission to conserve birds and their habitats. We thank these and all of our past Board members and everyone in our community for their 40 years of support.
If you would ever like to learn more about our programs or get involved, please visit let me know.
Sincerely,
Chris Oversington
Executive Director
coverington@sfbbo.org
If you would ever like to learn more about our programs or get involved, please visit let me know.
Sincerely,
Chris Oversington
Executive Director
coverington@sfbbo.org