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Education Volunteer Opportunities!

9/17/2024

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Please email our Education Chair, Alan Gubanich, if you can help out with any of these events!

Sunday Sep 29, 2024, 7:00 am - 1:00 pm - Riverside Farmer's Market
Contact: Please contact Patty Moen if you can volunteer for this event.
Location:  Idlewild Park, 1735 Shadow Park Dr., Reno
Description:  Tabling booth at the Riverside Farmer's Market to help sell books donated from the John Davis collection. Meet new people, let them know about Lahontan Audubon Society, and have fun browsing the market stalls while you are there! Food trucks on site. Setup is at 7am and take down is at 1 pm. There will be a bird walk around the park at 10 am.


Wednesday Oct 2, 2024, 8:45am - 3:45pm - Donner Trail Elementary
Location:  52755 Donner Pass Road, Soda Springs, CA 95728
Event:  River Day
Description:  Volunteer at a bird station table to show students about the birds that might be found around the Soda Springs area. Bird taxidermy mounts can be checked out for use at the Galena Creek Visitor Center or Rosewood Nature Study Area. Groups of up to 10 students will rotate through the bird station and other stations on this day. Table time with the students lasts about 30 minutes per group.

Sunday Oct 13, 2024, 8:00 - 10:00 am - Swan Lake Nature Study Area
Location:  Off Lear Blvd. (see map)
Event:  Discover Our Parks with Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation
Description:  We are looking for a volunteer to talk about Swan Lake and the birds that are found there and also volunteers to help lead participants on a walk to look for birds along the trail and boardwalk. Taxidermy birds may be used for the talk portion in the outdoor pavilion as an option.

Thursday Oct 24, 9:00am - 3:10pm - Fernley Intermediate School
Location:  320 Falcon Dr, Fernley, NV 89408
Event:  Outdoor Day
Description:  Volunteer at one of two tables.
This is an annual event at the school and LAS has been there every year. The event is held in Fernley, around the school's outdoor track. Several organizations have tables and displays and the kids move from station to station. Each class (usually about 20 to 25 students, plus 1 or 2 teachers) move from one station to the next, spending about 30 or 35 minutes at each station. FREE lunch for volunteers! Table 1 includes bird mounts and skins of birds found around Fernley. Table 2 includes the bird identification activity with binoculars. Multiple volunteers are needed for this event!

Upcoming in October, date not yet set, 1:00 - 3:00 pm M, W, or F - Gardnerville Health and Rehabilitation
Location:  1573 Muller Parkway in Gardnerville
Event: Bird Talk (your subject choice!)
Description:  We are looking for volunteers to give talks about birds to the residents of this skilled nursing facility. Residents have a keen interest in the local birds. Talks would be 45 min. - 1 hour in length. We are hoping to have volunteers give talks once a month or so, pending availability. Alan has a laptop and projector for loan as needed.

Fall School Talk opportunity, date not yet set, sometime during school hours
Location:  Private School in Incline Village (contact Alan for details)
Event: Owls!
Description:  The students will be learning about owls this Fall and we need a volunteer to lead or help Alan with an owl talk for the students.

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Lahontan Audubon Society volunteers - opening the world of birds to our children!
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Thank you Volunteers !!!

11/26/2023

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Thank you to our wonderful volunteers who help our birding community grow!  “If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.”  --Author Unknown
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The Pelican-- Hummingbird and Pollinator Garden Planting at Valley Wood Waterwise Gardens

10/19/2023

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By Diane Wong-Kone and Tom Stille

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Volunteers Needed!  Fall Planting at Valleywood Gardens!

10/4/2023

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Date:  Saturday, October 7, 2023
Place:  Valleywood Park Waterwise Gardens - meet at the Gazebo, click to see map
What to Bring:  Gardening clothes and favorite small garden tools for planting if you have it, but not needed as Tom has supplies handy.

Come and join us at our community gardens at Valleywood Park this Saturday!  We will be planting California Fuschias for hummingbirds!  This bright red flower grows well in our neighborhood.  Lahontan Audubon Society's Vice President and owner of River School Farm, Tom Stille, is leading this effort and knows all when it comes to landscaping and gardening in our area.  This planting effort is the first step to adding flowers to our hummingbird garden and there will be more opportunities to help out.  This day, we will build a raised bed out of tree limbs, add live worm compost, plant, add drip irrigation, and mulch for the flowers.  Learn techniques you can use in your own yard and help our wild birds thrive!  Help us plant and then watch our gardens grow!
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Do you love birds and feel LAS provides an important service to Northern Nevada? If so, LAS has an opportunity for you!

4/3/2023

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Lahontan Audubon is looking for Board Members who want to help spread the joy of birding, and to support education and conservation efforts concerning birds and the environment. 

Board members or Trustees serve a three year term. The terms are staggered so that each year three of the nine trustee positions are up for reelection. Trustees are term limited to serving only three consecutive terms or nine years. Two of our wonderful Trustees, Mike Goddard and Bill Fletcher, have reached their term limit. The third trustee, Linda St-Cyr, is not term-limited and has agreed to be a candidate for the upcoming election. 

Ordinarily the qualifications for a Trustee is membership in LAS and the willingness to faithfully serve. However, this year we have a specific need for one candidate to be willing and able to serve as the treasurer. This position does not require a degree in accounting or a CPA but does require attention to detail and the willingness to learn the Neon CRM computer program as well as QuickBooks. If you are interested in this position but have questions about what it entails, please contact Bill Fletcher at [email protected] 

If you are interested in one of the two general trustee positions or have questions about serving on the Board please contact [email protected]. 

Join the Board and help steer LAS into the future!
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Welcome to Our New Field Trip Committee Chair

10/7/2022

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Welcome to our new Field Trip Committee Chair, Lauren Whitenack! Lauren is a PhD student at the University of Nevada, Reno studying Mountain Chickadee breeding ecology, and one of our newest Trustees. She has been interested in birds from the young age of 13 when she began volunteering at the Intermountain Bird Observatory near Boise, ID. Before moving to Reno in August 2021, she worked as a bird bander in both Idaho and Western North Carolina and conducted bird research as an undergraduate. She is currently a graduate teaching assistant for a Field Ornithology course at UNR, and enjoys sharing her passion for birds with others. Lauren is bringing a fresh energy to the field trip committee and wants to know how we can best serve you. Please fill out this short survey on what you would like to see from our field trip programs in the future. You can also join Lauren on her upcoming field trip to Rancho San Rafael or Hunter Creek Trail and thank her for coordinating our birding field trips!
Also a huge thank you to our outgoing committee chair, Jasmine Kleiber, for all the great work she has done over the past few years!
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Join our Board of Trustees

10/7/2022

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We have a vacant seat on our Board of Trustees and we are looking for someone with a passion for our mission to step up. Trustees attend monthly board meetings, support strategic planning for our organization, and provide guidance to our programs. If you are interested in learning more, please contact our president, Suzie Reynolds and she will be happy to give you more information.
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Support our Membership Meetings by Hosting the Hospitality Table

10/7/2022

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We are so excited to be back to our in-person monthly membership meetings and a huge thank you to Bob Goodman for kicking off the season last month. We are looking for volunteers to help host the snacks and beverages that we provide at each meeting. This would entail purchasing light snacks, and setting up the hospitality table before the start of the meeting. LAS will reimburse volunteers for the snacks they purchase and we are hoping to have different volunteers sign up for each meeting. If you are interested in helping or if you have any additional questions, please send us a message and we hope to see you at our October meeting.

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Pinyon Jay Community Science Training and Get Together

9/24/2022

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Our Pinyon Jay friends are returning to their flocks and it's time for us to get back to our surveys. This month we are hosting a gathering at Rosewood Nature Study Area to train new volunteers, answer questions for existing volunteers, and get together as a community of interested birders. Please RSVP so we can plan accordingly. If you are new to the project, we will send you some information in advance to help you with the on-boarding process.
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Pinyon Jays by Jeff Bleam
RSVP to the PIJA Project Gathering Here
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Recruiting Field Trip Guides

8/27/2022

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Fall migration is almost upon us! We are looking for volunteers who are interested in coordinating some birding walks so we can share fall migration with more people in our community. You don’t have to be an expert birder to lead a walk, just someone who is familiar with a local birding spot and interested in learning. If you want to find out more about leading or co-leading a birding walk, please send a message to our Field Trip Committee.
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New Leadership At LAS

8/14/2022

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We have new officers on our Board of Trustees. Huge thank you to our outgoing president, David Jickling, and outgoing secretary, Suzie Reynolds. Though neither of them will be going far! Suzie was elected as the new president of our organization and David was elected to fill the Vice President seat that has been vacant for the past year. Mike Goddard was elected to serve as secretary and Bill Fletcher has agreed to stay on as our treasurer. The rest of our board is filled out by Brendan Bucy, Rose Strickland, Bri Usdrowski, and our newest board members, Sally Bates, and Lauren Whitenack. Please join us in thanking this dedicated group of volunteers for their service. We do have some committee chair roles that we are looking to fill. If you are interested in leading any of our committees please fill out a volunteer interest form.
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InterMountain West Shorebird Survey - Volunteers Needed

7/2/2022

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A group of Long-billed Dowitchers taking flight over water tall reeds or grasses in the background.
Long-billed Dowitchers by Ed Oakes
What is the Intermountain West Shorebird Survey?
Shorebirds represent a unique aspect of biodiversity that links isolated sites, often hundreds or thousands of miles apart, and thus, shorebirds are excellent indicators of environmental health across large and small landscapes.
 
Inland sites in the Intermountain West are oases for our migratory shorebirds. Our collective efforts will document changes to freshwater wetlands and saline lakes over the past 30 years by recreating the last comprehensive shorebird survey of the region in 1989-1995. By combining the efforts of professional and volunteer scientists, we will collect critical information to help sustain shorebird populations into the future, which is the purpose of the Intermountain West Shorebird Survey.
 
The project objectives are:
  • Describe the distribution and abundance of shorebirds during migration by count all shorebirds at 189 sites during the spring and fall migrations for 3-5 years.
  • Compare the current distribution and abundance of shorebirds with distributions from 1989-1995.
  • Inform future management decisions by identifying local and regional factors that influenced the abundance and distribution of shorebirds.
Ideal shorebird volunteers:
  • Have a passion for birds and time outdoors,
  • Can commit to one survey day in the spring and one survey day in the fall, and allow some flexibility for scheduling around bad weather,
  • Will be safety conscience and cooperate with field partners,
  • Can collect high quality data in the field,
  • Can count shorebirds and identify to species in breeding and non-breeding plumage, OR can assist an observer by recording data and/or providing transportation.
How can you help?
We need help collecting baseline site information (access points, observation locations, and potential hazards), designing routes and surveying sites. We will be providing more details on what information we need and how to collect it during our upcoming webinar sessions. Please fill out the online form below if you are interested in visiting a familiar or new shorebird site to help design surveys and count shorebirds during our migration windows (August 9th – 22nd and April 24th – 30th), any effort helps shorebirds count! Mileage reimbursement is available on a case-by-case basis.

Save the dates!
  • July 20th, 2022 – Shorebird Site Reconnaissance Webinar
  • August 2nd, 2022 – Survey Protocol and Training Webinar
  • August 9th-22nd, 2022: Fall 2022 Peak Shorebird Survey Window – get out and count shorebirds!

Ready to get involved?
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Seeking Social Media Volunteers...

5/17/2022

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Volunteer Opportunity: Mark Wellman Adventure Day - 6/5/22

5/7/2022

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We are honored to be participating as a guest at Mark Wellman Adventure Day. Mark Wellman Adventure Day is a free event for people with disabilities to try physical activities such as kayaking, cycling and now birding! The event will happen on Sunday, June 5th at Sparks Marina from 9am to 2:30pm. We are seeking volunteers for this event. These volunteers would help us with tabling, as well as showing guests how to use binoculars and spotting scopes, and taking guests on small walks where they can see the birds at the Marina, like Mallards, Cormorants and Coots. If you are interested in volunteering at this event, please send an email to [email protected]. ​
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Shorebird Surveys- March 12th 2022

3/15/2022

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PO Box 2304
Reno, NV 89505-2304
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Lahontan Audubon Society Mission Statement:
To preserve and improve the remaining habitat of birds and other wildlife, restore historical habitat, and educate people, especially children, ​about birds in our unique Nevada environments.
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