Classes

Click the Class title  when underlined for a class description, hours, itinerary; click here for registration information. 

Upcoming (Spring)

Class title Start & end date Location Instructor
Beginning Birding May 8 - June 1 GGAS Office Hoff
Birdsong TBA Albany Adult School Wight

Current (Winter)

Class title Start & end date Location Instructor
Birds of the Bay Area Jan 9 - Feb 17 Ed Roberts Campus, Adeline St, Berkeley - register at the GGAS office Scalf & Lewis
Birdsong January Albany Adult School Wight
Owls of NA Feb 5 - March TBD GGAS Office Quady
Raptors in Winter  Jan 20  Feb 20 Golden Gate Raptor Observatory - register through GGAS Office Bartley
Master Birding Feb 6 - Dec 7 California Academy of Sciences - register through CAS Dumbacher, Bartley, Lewis
       
       

Past

Class title Interesting Sightings Details Quarter1
Romance is in the Air Black Skimmers, Red-necked Phalaropes Bird List Spring 12
Bay Area Birds Chukar, Roadrunner, Blue Ross's Goose, Mountain Bluebirds, Ferruginous Hawk, Barn Owl list Winter 12
Birds of the Sierra I and II Breeding shorebirds, lots of water in the valley, Short-eared Owls, Swainson's Hawks... list (1) list (2) and story Summer 11
Cornell Bird Biology Next class pending new edition of textbook   Yearlong
Bay Area Birds Roadrunner, both eagles, Lawrence's Goldfinch, Mountain Bluebird list Winter 10
Birds of the Sierra 1 Swainson's Hawk nest, 7 warblers, Red Crossbills list Summer 09
Birds of the Sierra 2 Wonderful Calliope Hummingbird, Williamson's SS and Dusky FC nests list Summer 09
Shorebird Migration 16 species of shorebirds including Wandering Tattler and Surfbird list Spring 09
Easter Weekend Getaway Snowy Plover, Common Loon - alternate plumage, tons of Caspian Terns, cormorants - breeding outfits, Barn Owl - early for Brandt's nesting display list Spring 09
Birds of the Bay Area Cranes, Geese, Swans, Snowy Plover, Ruddy Turnstone list Fall 2008
Shorebird Migration Surfbirds, Wandering Tattler, Snowy Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, Black Oystercatchers list Fall 2008
Bay Area Birds Yellow Rail!! Eagles, Cassin's Kingbird, Ferruginous Hawk, Geese, Cranes, Ibis list story Winter 2008 AAS
Cranes & Geese & Stuff 2 Thousands of geese, cranes, swans list story Fall 2007 AAS

Notes

1 OM is Oakland Museum; AAS is Albany Adult School; GGAS is Golden Gate Audubon Society