Newsletter - June 2026

San Diego Wild Birds Unlimited Upcoming Events

  •  Presentation “5 Steps to Backyard Bird Feeding Mastery” – June 20 at 11:00 AM
Are you new to feeding birds in your backyard? Maybe you’ve been feeding them for years but want to attract more or different birds? Come to the store on Saturday, 20 June at 11am for a presentation by store owner Dan Payne. He’ll share a step-by-step process you can use to evaluate your yard and make it your birds' “Happy Place.” Bring your questions, photos of your yard and feeders, and your stories and we’ll talk birds!
Dez Brooks is the Operations Director at SoCal Parrot, a wildlife rehabilitation center dedicated to providing care for the naturalized populations of parrots found in Southern California. A wildlife rehabber with almost 8 years of experience, Dez leads SoCal Parrot in rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing more than 125 wild parrots annually. SCP also provides sanctuary to non-releasable wild parrots and parrots saved from smuggling and cruelty cases. They will discuss the ins and outs of wild parrot rehabilitation, why parrots live in Southern California, and the many species that call San Diego home.
 
  • Presentation by the San Diego Bird Alliance “10 birds of San Diego you might not know (but you’ll want to)” – August 15 at 11:00 AM
Are you just starting to notice birds? Do you want to put names to their faces, and learn more about how they live and what they need? This presentation will be a good start. San Diego Bird Alliance will present "10 Birds that you should know in San Diego." You'll find out about 10 species that are common in San Diego, but might have escaped your notice until now.

Quote of the Month:

June is for fledglings, flowers, and early morning birdsong - Anonymous

Spotlight: Project Wildlife - Giving Injured and Orphaned Wild Birds a Second Chance


Every year across San Diego County, thousands of wild birds are injured, orphaned, sick, or displaced. A hummingbird crashes into a window. A young owl falls from its nest during a windstorm. A pelican becomes tangled in fishing line. A baby songbird is orphaned after a tree is trimmed too early in nesting season.

For many people, encountering an injured bird can feel heartbreaking and overwhelming. Fortunately, San Diego is home to one of the nation’s leading wildlife rehabilitation programs: Project Wildlife, a program of the San Diego Humane Society dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing native wildlife back into the wild.

For bird lovers, Project Wildlife represents something deeply inspiring—a combination of science, compassion, education, and conservation that helps thousands of birds every year while teaching the public how to better coexist with wildlife.

A Mission Rooted in Wildlife Rescue
Project Wildlife began in 1972 as a small volunteer effort focused on helping injured wildlife in San Diego County. Over the decades, it has grown into one of the busiest wildlife rehabilitation programs in the United States, caring for more than 10,000–13,000 wild animals annually, many of them birds.

Because San Diego sits along the Pacific Flyway and contains such diverse habitats, the organization treats an incredible variety of species, including:
  • Hummingbirds
  • Doves and finches
  • Owls and hawks
  • Pelicans and gulls
  • Shorebirds and migratory songbirds
Spring and summer are especially busy due to the surge of orphaned nestlings and fledglings.

When birds arrive at Project Wildlife, trained staff and volunteers assess injuries, illness, dehydration, nutritional condition, and stress levels. Treatments may include fluid therapy, wound care, fracture repair, specialized feeding, medication, and flight conditioning. The goal is not simply survival—it is returning birds to full wild functionality so they can once again thrive in their natural habitat.

For larger birds and raptors, specialized flight enclosures allow birds to rebuild strength and flying ability before release.

Human-Related Threats to Birds
A large percentage of birds admitted to Project Wildlife are injured because of human activity.

One of the leading causes is window collisions, especially during migration season when birds strike reflective or transparent glass. Migrating songbirds are particularly vulnerable.

Rodenticide poisoning has become another major issue throughout Southern California. Owls, hawks, and falcons often consume poisoned rodents and suffer deadly secondary poisoning.

Pelicans, gulls, and shorebirds are frequently injured by:
  • Fishing hooks
  • Monofilament line
  • Plastic debris
  • Entanglement
Outdoor cats are also a major threat to birds, and improper tree trimming during nesting season can destroy active nests and orphan young birds.

Project Wildlife not only rehabilitates injured wildlife but also works extensively to educate the public about how many of these injuries can be prevented.

Nesting Season: What Many People Don’t Realize
Every spring, Project Wildlife receives thousands of calls about baby birds. One of the organization’s most important educational messages is that not every young bird needs rescuing.

Many fledglings naturally spend time on the ground while learning to fly, with parents often nearby continuing to feed and protect them. Well-meaning people sometimes remove healthy fledglings from the wild unnecessarily.

Project Wildlife helps residents learn how to recognize fledglings, when intervention is truly needed and how to safely reunite nestlings with parents when possible.

This public education helps keep healthy young birds where they belong—in the wild.

Specialized Care for Hummingbirds and Raptors
San Diego’s hummingbirds are among the smallest and most delicate patients treated at Project Wildlife. Baby hummingbirds require extremely frequent feeding, precise nutrition, and careful temperature control. Successfully rehabilitating and releasing even a single hummingbird requires extraordinary expertise and patience.

Raptors such as owls, hawks, and falcons are also especially important patients because they often reflect broader environmental problems. Rodenticide poisoning, habitat loss, vehicle strikes, and power-line injuries are increasingly common throughout Southern California.

By treating these birds, Project Wildlife also helps scientists and conservationists better understand the threats facing local wildlife populations.

The Challenges of Wildlife Rehabilitation
Wildlife rehabilitation is inspiring work—but it is also incredibly demanding.

Over the years, some members of the public have expressed frustration when calls were not immediately returned or when rescuers could not quickly pick up injured animals. In most cases, these concerns come from compassionate people desperately trying to help wildlife in distress.

The reality is that organizations like Project Wildlife operate under enormous pressure. During spring and summer nesting season, calls and admissions surge dramatically, often stretching staff and volunteers to their limits. Wildlife rehabilitation requires specialized facilities, trained personnel, veterinary care, species-specific diets, and sometimes around-the-clock attention.

Before merging with the San Diego Humane Society, former Project Wildlife Executive Director Beth Ugoretz explained the challenge clearly:  “We don’t have a contract and don’t get supported by the government. We do it because it’s our mission.”

Even with expanded facilities and support from the San Diego Humane Society, the organization still faces:
  • Funding limitations
  • Staffing shortages
  • Rising veterinary costs
  • Increasing wildlife emergencies in urban areas
In many ways, the growing demand for wildlife rescue reflects the increasing pressures wildlife face in modern environments.

The Important Role of Volunteers
Project Wildlife depends heavily on volunteers. Hundreds of trained volunteers help:
  • Feed animals
  • Clean enclosures
  • Transport injured wildlife
  • Assist with rehabilitation
  • Educate the public
  • Support rescue operations
Volunteers become especially critical during spring and summer when patient numbers surge dramatically.

For many bird lovers, volunteering offers a unique opportunity to directly support wildlife conservation and care in San Diego County.

How You Can Help Birds at Home
Project Wildlife encourages simple actions that can make a major difference for birds:
  • Make windows safer with decals or screens
  • Avoid rodenticides whenever possible
  • Keep cats indoors
  • Avoid trimming trees during nesting season
  • Provide fresh water and native plants for birds
  • Support wildlife rehabilitation organizations through donations or volunteering
Every rescued and released bird represents an enormous investment of time, expertise, and compassion.

A Shared Responsibility
The story of Project Wildlife reminds us that wildlife is all around us—even in urban neighborhoods. The birds visiting our feeders, nesting in nearby trees, or migrating overhead face growing challenges, but they also benefit enormously from people who care.

Through rescue, rehabilitation, education, and conservation, Project Wildlife gives thousands of birds a second chance every year while helping build a community that better understands and protects the wildlife around us.  For bird lovers in San Diego, that’s a mission worth supporting.

Birds of the Month: Wrentit

Wrentits, Scripps Ranch (our backyard)
 

Fun Facts about the Wrentit
The tiny bird with the giant voice - and California’s ultimate brush-country secret

The Wrentit (Chamaea fasciata) is one of Southern California’s most beloved hidden birds. Small, brown, and usually tucked deep inside dense shrubs, it can be surprisingly difficult to see—but once you learn its distinctive “ping-pong ball” song, you’ll start hearing Wrentits throughout San Diego’s canyons, chaparral, and coastal sage scrub.

Appearance & Identification
  • Wrentits are small, round-bodied birds about 6 inches long with short rounded wings and a long tail often held slightly upright.
  • Their plumage is mostly soft brown and gray, allowing them to blend almost perfectly into dry brush and tangled shrubs.
  • One of their most noticeable features is their pale eye, which stands out sharply against their warm brown face.
  • Wrentits are far more often heard than seen. They typically move quietly through dense vegetation, hopping from branch to branch rather than flying into the open.
  • Their long tail and secretive behavior can resemble a wren, which helped inspire their unusual name.
Range, Habitat & San Diego Presence
  • Wrentits are found almost entirely along the Pacific Coast from Oregon through California and into Baja California.
  • They are especially associated with chaparral, coastal sage scrub, poison oak thickets, and dense brushy habitat.
  • In San Diego County, Wrentits are common in native shrublands and canyon habitats, including:
    • Mission Trails Regional Park
    • Tecolote Canyon
    • Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve
    • Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve
    • Marian Bear Memorial Park
  • Unlike migratory birds, Wrentits stay in the same area year-round and may rarely travel far from where they hatched. Some individuals spend their entire lives within only a few acres.
What Wrentits Eat
  • Wrentits feed heavily on insects and spiders, especially during spring and summer. Their prey includes caterpillars, ants, beetles, leafhoppers, scale insects, and small wasps.
  • During fall and winter, berries become an important part of their diet. They are especially fond of berries from native plants such as poison oak, coffeeberry, blackberry, and toyon.
  • They forage low in shrubs and brush, carefully gleaning insects from leaves and twigs. They may briefly hover or even hang upside down while searching foliage for food.
  • Dan and I have seen Wrentits at our suet feeder, live mealworm bowl, fountain and our “Bug Nut & Berry” cylinder, but these are all in an area tucked back in the shade, mostly surrounded by plants and very close to thick bushes.  We have never seen them at any feeder that is out in the open.
Nesting & Reproduction
  • Wrentits build compact cup-shaped nests hidden deep inside dense shrubs, usually just a few feet above the ground.
  • Both males and females help build the nest using bark strips, spiderwebs, grasses, and plant fibers. The outside may even be decorated with lichen for camouflage.
  • Pairs often mate for life and defend their territory year-round. Some birds may pair as early as 30–40 days after fledging.
  • Females typically lay 3–5 pale greenish-blue eggs, and both parents share incubation duties during the day.
  • After hatching, both parents feed the nestlings, and young birds may remain with the family group for several weeks after leaving the nest.
Songs & Sounds
  • The Wrentit’s song is one of the signature sounds of California chaparral.
  • Birders often describe it as sounding like a ping-pong ball bouncing faster and faster.
  • The song begins with evenly spaced notes that gradually accelerate into a rapid trill. Male songs usually speed up dramatically at the end, while female songs tend to slow and taper off more gently.
  • Unlike many songbirds, both males and females sing, and they may sing throughout the entire year.
  • Wrentits also give harsh scolding calls when alarmed or defending territory.
Behavior & Personality
  • Wrentits are often called one of the most sedentary birds in North America because they rarely move far from their birthplace.
  • They are highly territorial and remain closely tied to dense shrub cover throughout their lives.
  • When disturbed, Wrentits usually retreat deeper into vegetation rather than flying long distances. Their short wings are adapted more for maneuvering through shrubs than for sustained flight.
  • Though secretive, they can become surprisingly bold while scolding predators such as scrub-jays or snakes near their nests.
Interesting & Unexpected Facts
  • Despite their name, Wrentits are not related to wrens or tits. Scientists now place them in the parrotbill family, whose other members are found mainly in Asia, which makes them the only member of their family found in the Americas.
  • Coastal birds tend to be darker in color than individuals living in drier inland habitats.
  • The oldest known Wrentit was over 13 years old, an impressive age for such a small bird.
  • Because they depend heavily on chaparral and coastal scrub habitat, Wrentits are considered important indicators of healthy native ecosystems.
How to Attract Wrentits to Your Yard
  • Wrentits are most likely to visit yards that resemble natural chaparral habitat.
  • Native plants such as:
    • Coyote bush
    • California lilac (Ceanothus)
    • Manzanita
    • Toyon
    • Coffeeberry
    • California sagebrush
      provide both shelter and food.
  • Dense shrubs and layered vegetation are especially important because Wrentits prefer to stay hidden while foraging.
  • Avoiding pesticides helps maintain the insect populations they rely on for food.
  • Birdbaths and shallow water sources may also encourage visits, especially during dry weather.
Why We Love Wrentits
Wrentits are the quiet spirit of California’s native shrublands—subtle, secretive, and deeply connected to our local landscapes. Their bouncing song drifts through San Diego’s canyons and hillsides year-round, adding life and character to chaparral habitats that many people overlook.

Once you learn the sound of a Wrentit, every walk through coastal scrub becomes a treasure hunt—and California’s wild places suddenly feel much more alive.

What’s happening in San Diego:


Please note: This information is compiled by hand (not AI) and mistakes or changes are possible. Please be sure to confirm dates/times/locations on the pages linked before leaving for an event.

SoCal Bird Nerds

  • Bird Outing
    • Date: June 21, 2026
    • Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
    • Location: WorldBeat Center, 2100 Park Blvd, San Diego
    • Information here:  Event Link   and here:  Event Link

 San Diego Bird Alliance (formerly San Diego Audubon Society)

  • River Mouth Restoration
    • Date: June 5, 2026
    • Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
    • Location: Ocean Beach – Dog Beach, 5156 W Point Loma Blvd, San Diego  
    • Event Link
  • California Bird Atlas Big Weekend – Breeding Bird Survey at Silverwood
    • Date: June 6, 2026
    • Time: 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    • Location: Silverwood Wildlife Sanctuary, 13003 Wildcat Canyon Rd., Lakeside
    • Event Link
  • Anstine Preserve Projects
    • Date: June 6, 2026
    • Time: 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM
    • Location: Anstine Nature Preserve, 2437 Hutchison St., Vista
    • Event Link
  • Birdathon Closing Celebration
    • Date: June 7, 2026
    • Time: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
    • Location: Little Bird Brewing, 3176 Thorn St., San Diego
    • Event Link
  • Wonder the Wetlands: Bird Watching
    • Date: June 13, 2026
    • Time: 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
    • Location: Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve, 2055 Pacific Beach Drive, San Diego
    • Event Link
  • Snapshot Cal Coast - Bilingual
    • Date: June 13, 2026
    • Time: 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
    • Location: Tijuana Slough (exact location – see link)
    • Event Link                
  • Imperial Beach BARK Ranger Training
    • Date: June 16, 2026
    • Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
    • Location: Zoom 
    • Event Link                
  • Birding by Trolley:  San Diego River (Wheelchair accessible!)
    • Date: June 17, 2026
    • Time: 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
    • Location: Fashion Valley Transit Station, San Diego
    • Event Link
  • Stewardship Thursday at Anstine
    • Dates: June 18, 2026
    • Time: 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    • Location: Anstine Nature Preserve, 2437 Hutchison St., Vista 
    • Event Link                
  • Bird Photography Club: Photo Stroll at San Elijo Lagoon
    • Date: June 20, 2026
    • Time: 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
    • Location: San Elijo Lagoon, Cardiff by the Sea
    • Event Link
  • Birding Outing: Famosa Slough
    • Date: June 20, 2026
    • Time: 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
    • Location: 4285 W. Pt. Loma Blvd, San Diego
    • Event Link
  • Birding Outing: Tecolote Canyon with Anitra Kaye
    • Date: June 27, 2026
    • Time: 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
    • Location: Tecolote Canyon, San Diego
    • Event Link
  • Queer Hike: & Pride Celebration at Rohr Park
    • Date: June 27, 2026
    • Time: 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM
    • Location: Rohr Park, 4548 Sweetwater Rd., Bonita
    • Event Link
  • Wonder the Wetlands: Work Party
    • Date: June 27, 2026
    • Time: 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
    • Location: Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve, 2055 Pacific Beach Drive, San Diego
    • Event Link

Palomar Audubon Society

  • Palomar Mountain
    • Date: June 6, 2026
    • Time: 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM
    • Location: Palomar Mountain – Doane Pond, 19952 State Park Road, Palomar Mountain
    • Event Link
 Buena Vista Audubon Society
  • Whelan Lake Bird Sanctuary Walk
    • Date: June 6, 2026
    • Time: 7:45 AM – 9:00 AM
    • Location: Whelan Lake, 3850 North River Road, Oceanside
    • Event Link
  • El Corazon Garrison Creek
    • Date: June 10, 2026
    • Time: 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
    • Location: El Corazon Garrison Creek, Oceanside
    • Event Link
  • Kids’ Nature Clubhouse: All Aflutter about Butterflies!
    • Date: June 14, 2026
    • Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
    • Location: Buena Vista Audubon Nature Center, 2202 South Coast Hwy., Oceanside
    • Event Link
  • Nature Journaling
    • Date: June 14, 2026
    • Time: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
    • Location: Jacks Pond Park, 986 La Moree Rd., San Marcos
    • Event Link
  • The Power of Plants and People in Wildlife Restoration
    • Date: June 17, 2026
    • Time: 6:45 PM – 9:00 PM
    • Location: Zoom
    • Event Link
  • Birding with Barbara
    • Date: June 20, 2026
    • Time: 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
    • Location: Stagecoach Park, 3420 Camino De Los Coches, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Preschool Nature Storytime at the Nature Center
    • Date: June 22, 2026
    • Time: 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
    • Location:  Buena Vista Nature Center,2202 South Coast Hwy., Oceanside
    • Event Link

San Diego Botanical Gardens

  • Bird Walk
    • Date: June 10, 2026
    • Time: 8:00 AM
    • Location: San Diego Botanical Gardens, 300 Quail Gardens Dr., Encinitas
    • Event Link

San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy

  • SDRVC Slow Flow Outdoor Yoga with Anna at the Birdwing
    • Date: June 13, 2026
    • Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    • Location: San Dieguito Lagoon Staging Area, 15648 San Andres Drive, Del Mar
    • Event Link
  • SDRVC Outdoor Yoga with Susan at the Birdwing
    • Dates: June 21, 2026
    • Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    • Location: San Dieguito Lagoon Staging Area, 15648 San Andres Drive, Del Mar
    • Event Link
  • Gonzales Canyon Habitat Restoration
    • Dates: June 27, 2026
    • Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    • Location: 13655 Sword Way, San Diego
    • Event Link
 San Elijo Lagoon Nature Collective
  • Discovery Tour
    • Date: June 6, 2026
    • Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
    • Location: San Elijo Lagoon, Nature Center Loop Trail, 2710 Manchester Ave., Cardiff-by-the-Sea
    • Event Link
  • Coffee + Connections Open House
    • Date: June 12, 2026
    • Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
    • Location: San Elijo Lagoon, Nature Center Loop Trail, 2710 Manchester Ave., Cardiff-by-the-Sea
    • Event Link
  • Wildlife Tour
    • Date: June 13, 2026
    • Time: 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
    • Location: San Elijo Lagoon (location will be emailed)
    • Event Link
  • Volunteer Restoration Event
    • Date: June 20, 2026
    • Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    • Location: Will be shared before the event
    • Event Link
 Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation
  • Avian Adventure Day
    • Date: June 21, 2026
    • Time: TBA
    • Location: The Discovery Campus, 1580 Cannon Road, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Bird Walk
    • Date: June 21, 2026
    • Time: 8:00 AM
    • Location: The Discovery Campus, 1580 Cannon Road, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Carlsbad Wine & Food Festival
    • Date: June 25, 2026
    • Time: 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
    • Location: Viasat East Campus – 2456 Town Garden Rd, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Trail Event – Cove Drive Trail
    • Date: June 26, 2026
    • Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
    • Location: Cove Drive, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Trail Event – Cove Drive Trail
    • Date: June 27, 2026
    • Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
    • Location: Cove Drive, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Mammal Mornings
    • Date: Every Monday
    • Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
    • Location: The Discovery Campus, 1580 Cannon Road, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Marine Monday
    • Date: Every Monday
    • Time: 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
    • Location: The Discovery Campus, 1580 Cannon Road, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Terrif Bug Tuesday
    • Date: Every Tuesday
    • Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
    • Location: The Discovery Campus, 1580 Cannon Road, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Succulent Session
    • Date: Every Tuesday
    • Time: 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
    • Location: The Discovery Campus, 1580 Cannon Road, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Microscope Mornings
    • Date: Every Wednesday
    • Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
    • Location: The Discovery Campus, 1580 Cannon Road, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Chicken Check-In
    • Date: Every Wednesday
    • Time: 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
    • Location: The Discovery Campus, 1580 Cannon Road, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Tortoise Treks
    • Date: Every Thursday
    • Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
    • Location: The Discovery Campus, 1580 Cannon Road, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Little Owl Thursday
    • Date: Every Thursday
    • Time: 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
    • Location: The Discovery Campus, 1580 Cannon Road, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Friday Fairy Fables
    • Date: Every Friday
    • Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
    • Location: The Discovery Campus, 1580 Cannon Road, Carlsbad
    • Event Link
  • Falcon Feeding Friday
    • Date: Every Friday
    • Time: 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
    • Location: The Discovery Campus, 1580 Cannon Road, Carlsbad
    • Event Link

Living Coast Discovery Center

  • Bug Hike at Sweetwater Park
    • Date: June 6, 2026
    • Time: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    • Location: Sweetwater Park Trail, 3041-47 Bonita Rd, Chula Vista
    • Event Link
  • Sweetwater Safari Hike

Tijuana Estuary

  • Nature Walk:  An Eye-Opening Experience Without Sight
    • Date: June 6, 2026
    • Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    • Location: Tijuana Estuary Visitor Center, 301 Caspian Wy, Imperial Beach
    • Event Link
  • Bird Walk
    • Dates: June 6, 13, 20, and 27, 2026
    • Time: 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
    • Location: Tijuana Estuary Visitor Center, 301 Caspian Wy, Imperial Beach
    • Event Link
  • Bird Walk
    • Dates: June 6, 13, 20, and 27, 2026
    • Time: 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
    • Location: Tijuana Estuary Visitor Center, 301 Caspian Wy, Imperial Beach
    • Event Link
  • Nature Walk
    • Date: June 13, 2026
    • Time:  11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
    • Location: 5th Street & Iris Avenue, 5th St & Iris Ave, Imperial Beach
    • Event Link
  • NOAA Turtle Talk
    • Date: June 20, 2026
    • Time:  10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    • Location: Tijuana Estuary Visitor Center, 301 Caspian Wy, Imperial Beach
    • Event Link
  • Nature Book Club
    • Date: June 27, 2026
    • Time:  10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
    • Location: Tijuana Estuary Visitor Center, 301 Caspian Wy, Imperial Beach
    • Event Link
  • Nature Walk
    • Dates: June 27, 2026
    • Time:  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    • Location: Tijuana Estuary Visitor Center, 301 Caspian Wy, Imperial Beach
    • Event Link
 Additional Resources:
San Diego Bird Alliance
Buena Vista Audubon Society
Palomar Audubon Society
San Diego Natural History Museum Canyoneers Hikes
San Diego Natural History Museum Nat Talks
San Diego Natural History Museum Community Science
San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy
San Dieguito Lagoon
San Elijo Lagoon
Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation
Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve
Living Coast Discovery Center
California State Parks Foundation
San Diego County Parks and Recreation
California Native Plant Society San Diego Chapter
San Diego Canyonlands
Wildlife Research Organization
Ramona Barn Owls
Project Wildlife

Organizations we support:

San Diego Bird Alliance
Wildlife Research Organization
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Ramona Barn Owls
Project Wildlife