2024 CFC Birdy Hour with Stephanie Ellis
Osprey - Egg Incubation, Chick Rearing and Wild Fostering
In 2023, Wild Care's Executive Director Stephanie Ellis was tasked with incubating two sets of Osprey eggs, raising the chicks and finding them suitable wild foster nests. This year, she has been placing Osprey eggs (from USDA) into active nests, and working with a local utility company to get chicks into foster nests when they have been displaced by storms and nest fires. In this special CFC Birdy Hour, Stephanie will discuss this intensive process along with two years of successes and challenges. She will also touch upon the history of Osprey on Cape Cod - a true conservation success story, coexisting with Osprey, and the legalities involved in working with Osprey nests, eggs and chicks. Stephanie is the Executive Director Wild Care, a wildlife rehabilitation hospital located in Eastham, MA (Cape Cod) She has a special affinity for birds and mice and has worked extensively in the fields of wildlife rehabilitation and avian conservation on both U.S. coasts. She loves dancing, and enjoying Cape Cod's natural beauty.
This free event is part of SFBBO's California Fall Challenge (CFC), a fundraiser to support our work to carry out our Strategic Plan to Inform, Inspire, and Involve more diverse communities in our mission.
Please consider making a generous donation to SFBBO! Donations of $80 or more are eligible to receive a 2024 SFBBO t-shirt. The estimated value of the t-shirt ($15) is not tax deductible. Please visit our website to view the Shirt Size Charts.
The artwork (at right) was designed by Anastasia Nguyen, is on a Vintage Navy shirt, and depicts Wilson's Phalaropes. In March this year, SFBBO Director of Waterbird Science Dr. Nathan Van Schmidt traveled to Argentina to attend the International Phalarope Working Group Meeting and then co-authored a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asking the agency to list Wilson's Phalaropes as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. This work is a culmination of two decades of waterbird surveys SFBBO biologists conducted in San Francisco Bay, including five years of focused summer phalarope surveys by staff and community science volunteers, which documented a 98% decline in the species locally. We hope people will wear their shirts to help us raise awareness about these beautiful birds and all of the birds we study and protect. You can read more about our phalarope program on our blog, Wingbeat.
We have the following shirt styles and sizes available: Women's Relaxed Fit Small, Medium, Large, and XL, and Unisex Small, Medium, Large, XL, 2XL, and 3XL (please see our website for size charts). We are taking pre-orders in September and October and will be orderig the shirts from the printers in early November and mailing them out when they are done (late November or early December) 2024. If you are interested in a shirt, after you make a donation please write to [email protected] and let us know what style and size you would like. These shirts will not be available after October 31st, 2024, so please order yours today!
More fun California Fall Challenge events are scheduled for September and October including great speakers, our Band-a-Thon, Bird Photo Big Day, and an Online Silent Auction. Check them out. Thank you!
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