Speaker Series - Golden Gate Audubon Society

Golden Gate Audubon’s monthly Speaker Series features renowned naturalists, photographers, ornithologists, and other fascinating speakers. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, our Speaker Series events are entirely online through the end of 2021 and will continue on into 2022.

How to View Our Speaker Series: Our online events are hosted through Zoom and are provided on a first-come, first-serve basis of up to 500 participants. We will post the Zoom link for each speaker on the web page for that event.

Past Speakers: Video recordings are available of some of our past speakers. View past speakers at goldengateaudubon.org/education/past-speakers/.

July 21, 2022

(Cancelled) Birding while Disabled

Presented by Bonnie Lewkowicz, Judith Smith and Tiffany Taylor

Speaker Series Update: Tonight's GGAS Speaker Series talk "Birding while Disabled" is canceled due to illness of one of the speakers. We hope to reschedule with Bonnie Lewkowicz, Judy Smith, and Tiffany Taylor in the 2023 Speaker Series.

August 18, 2022

California Hummingbirds and More

Presented by Bob Lewis

Although the focus of this talk is California hummingbirds, we’ll also stop in Arizona and Central and South America as we discuss the origin and taxonomy of these flying jewels, their nesting and migration behaviors, and some of the features that make hummingbirds so unique.

September 22, 2022

Birds and Ohlone’s Past, Present, and Future

Presented by Gregg Castro and Beverly R. Ortiz

Gregg Castro and Beverly R. Ortiz will share with you the significance of birds in the cultural, material, and spiritual lives of Ohlones past, present, and future. They’ll also describe how Ohlone land management practices increased the numbers and health of the birds on which Ohlones relied.

October 20, 2022

In Search of Meadowlarks

Presented by John Marzluff

One of humanity’s grand challenges is to conserve nature while providing for a growing and increasing affluent population. The lessons I’ve learned from agrarians and the scientific literature suggests strategies that we can each employ to help meet this challenge.

November 17, 2022

Why Birds Flock

Presented by Jessica Griffiths

You may have heard the old saying that birds of a feather flock together. But have you ever stopped to wonder why? Join Jessica Griffiths for a fascinating look at bird flocks and flocking behavior.