{"id":95,"date":"2018-07-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weebly-import-post-86"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:43:24","slug":"local-students-experience-bird-banding-at-ccfs","status":"publish","type":"wingbeat","link":"https:\/\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wingbeat\/local-students-experience-bird-banding-at-ccfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Students Experience Bird Banding at CCFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\"><strong><span>By Education Specialist Tonya Anderson<\/span><\/strong><\/div> <div><div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Picture\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wp-content\/uploads\/weebly-migration\/img-0457_orig.jpg?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>\u201cI\u2019m officially a bird now!\u201d a 6th grader said, pointing to the new \u201cbird band\u201d made of pipe cleaner and numbered beads on her ankle.<\/span><br\/><span>\u00a0<\/span><br\/><span>Another middle schooler laughed, \u201cI\u2019m trying to measure him, but he won\u2019t stop dabbing!\u201d<\/span><br\/><span>\u00a0<\/span><br\/><span>They and around 60 of their classmates were\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PPj5mhJRNLU?t=31s\" target=\"_blank\">visiting SFBBO\u2019s Coyote Creek Field Station in May<\/a>. They\u2019d arrived in a yellow bus at 8:00 a.m., early enough to see bird species they had learned about in class. The kids were separated\u00a0into three groups. I led the station where &#8230;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n  <div class=\"paragraph\">students, including the girl who dubbed herself \u201cOfficial Bird,\u201d collected data on each other as if their partners were banded birds.<br\/>\u00a0<br\/>Later, my first group of newly \u201cbanded\u201d students watched Landbird Biologist Dan Wenny extract passerines from mist nets, and observed Landbird Program Director Josh Scullen band and collect data on the birds.<br\/>\u00a0<br\/>Sixty students can be rambunctious, but handling birds is quiet work and the kids became hushed as they got to see 13 tiny birds face-to-face. As each bird emerged from a net or a bird bag, the students jostled to take pictures with their smartphones\u2014capturing the rarity of seeing such delicate wildlife up close.<br\/>\u00a0<br\/>The unique experience was possible thanks to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openspaceauthority.org\/community\/urban-grant-programs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Measure Q Urban Open Space Grant<\/a> SFBBO received from the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority, which aims to advance environmental literacy for children through science-based programs.<\/div> <div> <figure class=\"wp-block-gallery wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wp-content\/uploads\/weebly-migration\/dsc-0038-preview.jpeg?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wp-content\/uploads\/weebly-migration\/dsc-0010-preview.jpeg?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><\/figure>\n<\/div> <div class=\"paragraph\"><span>Around 500 6th\u00a0and 7th\u00a0grade students from two Santa Clara County schools, Windmill Springs Elementary School and Sheppard Middle School, involved in the project visited CCFS in May. The fieldtrips were the final component of a two-part education curriculum module developed by SFBBO with the grant funding.<\/span><br\/><span>\u00a0<\/span><br\/><span>In the first module, students learned about migratory bird patterns in class. I think what was most special about this module was that youth got access to real, meaningful bird data lovingly collected by\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/coyote-creek-field-station.html\" target=\"_blank\">CCFS<\/a><span>\u00a0volunteers and staff over more than 35 years.\u00a0<\/span><span>What was most meaningful to me about the second module was getting to see the data I helped collect as a volunteer bird bander come alive in the eyes of young scientists.<\/span><br\/><span>\u00a0<\/span><br\/><span>May\u2019s activities were a pilot, and feedback indicates that the kids enjoyed their morning immersed in nature, got to apply scientific ideas where real-world science happens, and successfully recalled the IDs of several bird species in the field.\u00a0<\/span><span>SFBBO is making updates to the curriculum and it will soon be available online for free.<\/span><br\/><br\/><strong><em>You can reach Tonya at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:landbird_intern_1@sfbbo.org\">landbird_intern_1@sfbbo.org<\/a>. You can learn more about our outreach program on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/environmental-education1.html\">website<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Education Specialist Tonya Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1230,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":""},"class_list":["post-95","wingbeat","type-wingbeat","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Local Students Experience Bird Banding at CCFS - San Fransisco Bay Bird Observatory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wingbeat\/local-students-experience-bird-banding-at-ccfs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Local Students Experience Bird Banding at CCFS - 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