This beginner-focused outing is great for birders of all levels. The Gardens host various habitats including cultivated gardens, pine forests, lawns, coastal prairie, and ocean views.

Oz Farm Field Trip

This talk highlights the global dispersal of approximately 10,000 preserved Hawaiian bird specimens across dozens of institutions, tracing how historic expeditions and private collectors contributed to their distribution.

We will start birding from the Philo Greenwood Road bridge over the Navarro river, then go into Hendy Woods State Park.

This “regulars” outing welcomes locals and visitors of all levels for an opportunity to get out there early and catch the birds who are catching those worms! The Gardens host various habitats including cultivated gardens, pine forests, lawns, coastal prairie, and ocean views.

This beginner-focused outing is great for birders of all levels. The Gardens host various habitats including cultivated gardens, pine forests, lawns, coastal prairie, and ocean views.

This “regulars” outing welcomes locals and visitors of all levels for an opportunity to get out there early and catch the birds who are catching those worms! The Gardens host various habitats including cultivated gardens, pine forests, lawns, coastal prairie, and ocean views.

Learn about the beautiful, colorful, and useful dragonflies in our area, their unique biology, and their role in our environment. Kathy and Sandra will introduce the most common of the 61 species that breed here.

This event will be held both via Zoom and in-person at the Noyo Marine Field Station in Noyo Harbor. Please note the new start time.

For this year’s owl safari, we will carpool and head up Greenwood ridge, returning around 10:00 pm. The variety of habitats along Philo-Greenwood Road hold several species of owls, and in March they can be quite vocal.

This beginner-focused outing is great for birders of all levels. The Gardens host various habitats including cultivated gardens, pine forests, lawns, coastal prairie, and ocean views.

This “regulars” outing welcomes locals and visitors of all levels for an opportunity to get out there early and catch the birds who are catching those worms! The Gardens host various habitats including cultivated gardens, pine forests, lawns, coastal prairie, and ocean views.

Nest-box building workshop

Join us for a semi-traditional February field trip to MacKerricher State Park. While it’s typically a slow month for birding on the coast, we can hope to see a variety of shorebirds off the rocks during the morning high tide, and then we will move to Lake Cleone to look for ducks and marsh residents.

Join cartoonist and author Rosemary Mosco to learn why humor, science, and art are natural allies. Discover how this combination can help us enjoy the birds around us—especially the common, overlooked species. Plus, take some time to laugh when Rosemary shares excerpts and insights from her latest humor book The Birding Dictionary.

This beginner-focused outing is great for birders of all levels. The Gardens host various habitats including cultivated gardens, pine forests, lawns, coastal prairie, and ocean views.

This “regulars” outing welcomes locals and visitors of all levels for an opportunity to get out there early and catch the birds who are catching those worms! The Gardens host various habitats including cultivated gardens, pine forests, lawns, coastal prairie, and ocean views.

Uncovering the Evolutionary Origins and Developmental Foundations of Beak Shape in Theropods Using a Universal Rule of Growth by Kathleen L.S. Garland

29th Annual Bird Count at Sea Ranch on Saturday, January 10th

The circle runs down the south coast from Cuffy’s Cove in Elk to the Point Arena lighthouse. This year’s post-count dinner will again be held in Trinity Hall of Saint Aloysius Catholic Church on Highway One in upper Point Arena.

The Fort Bragg Count will be held on Sunday December 28, 2025. The circle extends from the south bank of Big River north to Little Valley Road. If you live anywhere within that region, you can participate simply by counting birds in your yard. Or you can join a team birding in the field – walking, driving, bicycling, kayaking, and possibly taking the Kraken out to sea. At the end of the day, we will meet in Caspar for a Count Dinner and tally up the finds.

This “regulars” outing welcomes locals and visitors of all levels for an opportunity to get out there early and catch the birds who are catching those worms! The Gardens host various habitats including cultivated gardens, pine forests, lawns, coastal prairie, and ocean views.

Rose Memorial Cemetery & Beyond

“Winter Birds of the Mendocino Coast”

Slide show, Quiz, and Drinking Game

by Matt Franks and Tim Bray

This beginner-focused outing is great for birders of all levels. The Gardens host various habitats including cultivated gardens, pine forests, lawns, coastal prairie, and ocean views.

Join us for a presentation by Tiana Williams-Claussen about the Yurok Tribe Restoration of the California Condor to the Pacific Northwest

Raptor Run

Mendocino Coast Audubon Society presents: “Status and Conservation of the Purple Martin”

by Dan Airola

This “regulars” outing welcomes locals and visitors of all levels for an opportunity to get out there early and catch the birds who are catching those worms! The Gardens host various habitats including cultivated gardens, pine forests, lawns, coastal prairie, and ocean views.

This beginner-focused outing is great for birders of all levels. The Gardens host various habitats including cultivated gardens, pine forests, lawns, coastal prairie, and ocean views.