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SFBBO's 2021 California Fall Challenge T-Shirt Design Celebrates 40 Birds for 40 Years!

9/3/2021

By Environmental Education and Outreach Specialist Sirena Lao

Each year for SFBBO’s California Fall Challenge (CFC) fundraiser, we unveil new CFC T-Shirt design as part of our efforts to raise money to support our science and outreach work.

With this year being SFBBO’s 40th anniversary, we knew we had to do a special shirt to celebrate 40 years of conserving birds and their habitats and educating the community.

What better way to do that than by featuring 40 bird species? Science illustrator and graphic designer Julie Ho Sung was up for the challenge.

With so many Bay Area bird species to choose from, we ultimately decided to include these 40, read below to learn about these birds and their connection to our work!

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Plover Rescue Kicks Off SFBBO’s 40th Anniversary - "Forty from the Field"

9/2/2021

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By Outreach and Communications Director Kristin Butler

The birds were 40 days old.

It was August 20th and I was at Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in Hayward, a haven for many bird species, including the three Western Snowy Plover juveniles patiently waiting in a plastic pet carrier that was their temporary home.

My colleague Ben Pearl, a biologist, held the carrier in one hand, a spotting scope slung over his other shoulder. He walked slowly across the moonscape ground, eyes peeled for movement that would let us know where the older plovers were hiding among white algae and shells. I followed a half step behind, our boots crunching softly on the dried earth.

SFBBO’s 40th Anniversary

The symbolism of their age was not lost on us. This fall the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory ...

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SFBBO's 2021 California Fall Challenge T-Shirt Design Celebrates 40 Birds for 40 Years!

Plover Rescue Kicks Off SFBBO’s 40th Anniversary - "Forty from the Field"

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