Volunteer Docent Training 2010-2011

Become a Golden Gate Bird Alliance Docent

• Provide Public Education
• Reach out to a new audience
• Build and Strengthen Partnerships and Collaboration

This fall, Golden Gate Bird Alliance volunteer docents will be trained on the natural history of the Bay Trail from the Albany Mudflats to the Richmond Marina. On the trail, docents will set up birding stations to increase the public’s interest in local birds and to promote wildlife stewardship.

Training takes place: Monday Oct. 25 and Tuesday, Oct. 26

For further details, please send email to: ggas@goldengatebirdalliance.org.  (Please mention Birdin the Bay Trail in the subject line.) …

Golden Gate Bird Alliance, one of California’s oldest conservation groups, needs WEEKDAY volunteers this school year to work in our award-winning Eco-Education Programs based in East Oakland and North Richmond.

Come work with 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th graders during their field trip to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline and Pt. Pinole Regional Shoreline, both have important wildlife habitat for many species

Help teach tomorrow’s leaders the importance of protecting the San Francisco Bay as we:

• plant native plants to improve the habitats for the endangered California Clapper Rail
• catch and study plankton and other estuarine invertebrates
• observe wildlife within the wetland habitat

Field trips generally run from 9:30 am – 1:30 pm.
No commitments necessary and every effort helps!
Carpools arranged
Internships also available

One training was held on September 18, 2010 at 10 a.m.

The next Volunteer Training Day is on: October 6, 2010

For more information, or to RSVP for the training, please contact Anthony de Cicco at 510-843.2222, or adecicco@goldengatebirdalliance.org.…

Western Burrowing Owls inhabit parts of Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley. They arrive in the fall and leave in the spring.

As they overwinter at the park, Golden Gate Bird Alliance sends out trained docents to show people the owls, and talk about the plight of this locally endangered bird. If you are looking for a new and rewarding experience in burrowing owl protection and outreach, this is the opportunity for you. Training for a new year of Burrowing Owl Docents will happen on Saturday, September 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you are interested, please contact Frances DuPont at fdupont@sbcglobal.net before September 10.

Burrowing Owl photo taken by Mary Malec, a 2009 docent, at Cesar Chavez Park. …