Santa Barbara Audubon Society’s 11th Annual
Winter Bird Count 4 Kids!
January 25th, 2025
Come join us for our 11th annual Winter Bird Count for kids.
Let us introduce the young members of your family to the fun of bird watching! All kids ages 8 – 16 are welcome with a responsible adult. Experienced naturalists will teach Birding Basics and a Binocular Boot Camp (bring some binoculars or borrow ours), then guide you on a walk around Lake Los Carneros. Learn how to identify, record, and tally the bird species observed, then take your very own bird list home as a souvenir.
- Registration starts at 9:00 am at the Stow House Parking Lot
- Please register prior to 9:30 am
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We would love to have you volunteer to help
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Introducing Young People to the Fun of Bird Watching
- A free birding basics event for kids 8-16 with a responsible adult
- Guided walk around the lake with an experienced naturalist
- Binocular Boot Camp – bring binoculars or borrow ours
- Free souvenir bird list and t-shirt (for the first 75 kids)
- Record and tally the bird species you see
And please leave your dog at home!
Download the event flyer and give to your friends!
Read about the event in Noozhawk!
For questions contact us HERE
Directions:
Location: Lake Los Carneros Park
From Hwy 101 take Los Carneros exit (Exit 107)
- Head towards the mountains
- Proceed straight through the round-a-bout
- After the round-a-bout the Goleta Rail Road Depot will be on your right
- Park in the parking lot behind the fire station or follow directors to overflow lot
- Registration starts at 9:00 am at the Stow House Parking Lot
- Please register prior to 9:30 am
If you would like to volunteer please enter your name and email below and then select the tasks you would be willing to help with.
Add any additional message you would like at the bottom of this form then press the send button.
Santa Barbara Audubon Society’s Winter Bird Count 4 Kids Committee greatly appreciates and thanks the 39 volunteers and attendees (including the 15 group leaders) whose dedication made this year’s event a success despite the wet weather! We couldn’t do it without their support.
This year’s event was attended by 31 kids and 5 high school helpers from 16 schools who braved the wet weather with dedication and smiles.
We are especially grateful for Andy Lanes, of UCSB’s Cheadle Center, one of the founders of the WBC4K ten years ago, who has compiled our list of birds seen all these years. 2024 birds seen/heard totaled 49 species. Species of note were the Red-breasted Sapsucker, Summer Tanager, Tropical Kingbird and Violet-green Swallow.
Below is the list of birds seen on the 10th annual WBC4K
Acorn Woodpecker
Allen’s Hummingbird
American Coot
American Crow
Anna’s Hummingbird
Black Phoebe
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Bushtit
California Gull
California Scrub-jay
California Thrasher
California Towhee
Cassin’s Kingbird
Cedar Waxwing
Cooper’s Hawk
Dark-eyed Junco
European Starling
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Great Egret
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Mallard
Northern Flicker
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Shoveler
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Oak Titmouse
Orange Crowned Warbler
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-winged Blackbird
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Dove
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ruddy Duck
Short-billed Gull
Snowy Egret
Song Sparrow
Spotted Towhee
Summer Tanager
Tropical Kingbird
Turkey Vulture
Violet-green Swallow
Western Bluebird
Western Gull
White-crowned Sparrow
Yellow-rumped Warbler
We would also like to give a big thank you to Lucy London for her stunning original artwork and design of our 10th anniversary T-shirt.
Sponsored by Santa Barbara Audubon Society, with support from
The City of Goleta
Santa Barbara Audubon Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
