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SUMMARY:Rainforest in Flight: Birds of the Ecuadorian Amazon
DESCRIPTION:Presenter:  Jim Gain \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the late fall of 2025\, I joined five other adventurers for a descent into the Amazon Basin. This Zoom Program centers on our time at the Sani Bird Lodge. Nestled deep within the Ecuadorian Amazon near the broad\, meandering Napo River\, Sani Bird Lodge sits at the heart of one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth\, surrounded by pristine rainforest that forms a living bridge between Yasuní National Park to the south and the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve to the north. Together\, these protected areas create a vast ecological corridor—an unbroken sweep of forest where life thrives in staggering abundance. The lodge’s grounds are alive with over 550 bird species.\n\nJim Gain is a biologist by training\, an educator for more than 35 years\, and a lifelong naturalist whose curiosity has fueled decades of work in citizen science and conservation. His involvement with the Stanislaus Audubon Society spans over three decades in nearly every leadership role\, including past president\, complemented by service on the Central Valley Bird Club board and years with the Modesto Camera Club. He remains deeply engaged in the birding community as a Webmaster\, eBird Reviewer\, and member of the Stanislaus County and San Joaquin County Bird Records Committee. Blending photography with field observation has become one of his greatest joys\, and his images have been featured on platforms such as Audubon Field Guide\, Birds of the World\, All About Birds\, and the Merlin Bird ID App—reflecting a lifelong commitment to celebrating and sharing the beauty of the natural world.
URL:https://www.sanjoaquinaudubon.org/event/rainforest-in-flight-birds-of-the-ecuadorian-amazon/
LOCATION:Central United Methodist Church\, 3700 Pacific Avenue\, Stockton\, California
CATEGORIES:Chapter Programs
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SUMMARY:Against All Odds...Protecting the West's Largest Wetland
DESCRIPTION:Presenter:  Peter Ottesen\n\nWill discuss my book of the same title\, going from the time of the northern Yokuts\, to Cattle Baron Henry Miller\, to the dewatering of the San Joaquin River\, to fighting for water to sustain and protect the 240\,000-acre Grassland Ecological Area.Legacy: A classic example of private ownership fighting for a public trust resource. \nClick here to see the book review
URL:https://www.sanjoaquinaudubon.org/event/against-all-odds-protecting-the-wests-largest-wetland/
LOCATION:Central United Methodist Church\, 3700 Pacific Avenue\, Stockton\, California
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SUMMARY:The Evolution of the Flamingo’s Smile
DESCRIPTION:Presenter – Christopher Torres Phd\, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Biological Sciences at the University of the Pacific \nChristopher Torres\, PhD\, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Biological Sciences at the University of the Pacific\, will talk about “The Evolution of the Flamingo’s Smile”. Flamingos are among the most iconic birds on the planet – with their ostentatious coloration and perpetually inverted smile\, it’s easy to understand why they are featured in zoos (and front yards) the world over. Flamingos are also among the world’s most highly specialized birds\, employing an approach to filter-feeding utterly unlike anything else. As such\, flamingos provide an ideal model system for studying what drives the evolution of beak shape\, what drives birds to become increasingly specialized at the ever-increasing risk of extinction\, and how those shifts in ecology and morphology correspond to shifts in Earth history. \nBut flamingo evolutionary history remains shrouded in mystery\, being marked by enigmatic origins\, cryptic fossils\, and repeated brushes with extinction. In this talk\, Chris will share current understanding of that history\, and will tell several tales about how he and his colleagues are seeking to dispel many of those mysteries\, including: How\, after two centuries of study\, it was only relatively recently discovered that grebes are the closest living relatives of flamingos. How the understanding of what came before flamingos and grebes remains poor\, despite the existence of a nearly complete fossil documenting that exact moment in evolutionary time. How a lineage of bizarre\, prehistoric ‘straight-beaked flamingos’ managed to achieve a near-global distribution… and then vanished from the fossil record. \nHow the ancestors of modern\, ‘curved-beaked flamingos’ nearly met the same fate… before spreading back out across the globe. How California – along with the rest of North America’s West Coast – was covered in flamingos as recently as a few tens of thousands of years ago. How baby flamingos undergo one of the most unique post-hatching changes in beak morphology known among birds. And how watching those baby flamingos grow up might provide insights to the earliest stages of flamingo life.
URL:https://www.sanjoaquinaudubon.org/event/the-evolution-of-the-flamingos-smile/
LOCATION:Central United Methodist Church\, 3700 Pacific Avenue\, Stockton\, California
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