October Program: 47 Years of Bald Eagle Recovery on the California Channel Islands
October 5 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Bald eagles were historically present on all eight California Channel Islands, but by 1960, exposure to the pesticide DDT led to their decline and disappearance. In 1980, a team of wildlife biologists with the Institute for Wildlife Studies initiated the Bald Eagle Restoration Project, an intensive reintroduction and management effort that has spanned 45 years and counting. Thanks to these efforts, bald eagles can once again be seen soaring along island coastlines and nesting on cliffs and in treetops across the archipelago.
Today, the Bald Eagle Restoration Project monitors breeding bald eagles on the Channel Islands to detect and remedy any future population declines. Nest monitoring helps us to understand the reasons behind individual nest successes and contributes to invaluable long-term studies. Challenges remain, with some pairs continuing to have failed nests. Ongoing monitoring, livestreams, social media outreach, and educational programming increase public awareness and support of programs that protect bald eagles' ongoing recovery.
Guest Speaker Erin Weiner is a wildlife ecologist and the Eagle Project Lead for the Institute for Wildlife Studies.
She will be joining this month’s program via Zoom.
Join us at the Western Foundation!
We have the privilege of holding our meetings at the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology (also known as the Bird Museum), 439 Calle San Pablo in Camarillo. If you arrive when the doors open at 6:30, you’ll have the rare opportunity to look around the museum’s collections for a half hour before the meeting starts at 7:00 pm. (Also check out wfvz.org)
CVAS’s meetings will be hybrid, simultaneously live at WFVZ (recommended) and on Zoom. The link to join on Zoom is https://zoom.us/j/6155249106.
If you’re interested in joining us for dinner before the meeting, text Chrystal at (805) 261-9885 and meet us at WoodRanch Camarillo at Daily and Lantana by 5:00 pm.