CBS Covers SFBBO's "Game-Changing" Work

By Outreach and Communications Director Kristin Butler

For more than 40 years, SFBBO biologists and community science volunteers have studied passerines and other landbirds through bird banding research at our Coyote Creek Field Station (CCFS), which sits in the middle of an old restoration site in the South Bay.

​On March 2nd, Producer Molly McCrea from KPIX, a local affiliate of CBS News, visited our banding station to see our scientists and volunteers in action, talk about climate change, learn about our new Motus wildlife tracking technology, and capture video of the beautiful avian species we aim to protect. ​

The story, Bay Area Scientists Use Game-Changing Technology to Help Birds Amid Climate Change, ran on April 25th in honor of Earth Day week as part of CBS's recurring segment, Project Earth, which focuses on efforts made by local communities to help curb the impacts of climate change. 

Thanks to SFBBO's Director of Landbird Science, Dr. Katie LaBarbera, and volunteers Anqi Chen, Julian Tattoni, and Jennifer Litteral, for hosting Molly's visit, as well as our bird banding and Motus technology partners, our volunteers who've contributed time at the banding station, and our donors who make this, and all of our work, possible by supporting our new Strategic Plan.