The San Francisco Naturalist Society is dedicated to the enjoyment, study, and preservation of the natural world.
01/06/2024
A Conversation with Craig Nikitas of Bay Raptor Rescue — growing wild Around 9:00 p.m. during falcon fledging season, Craig Nikitas got a call from the San Francisco Fire Department asking him to come to Fire Station 35 on the pier. When he arrived, firefighters handed him a soaking-wet peregrine falcon fledgling in a box. She had been found grounded along the Embarca
09/21/2022
Craig Nikitas Protects Local Birds of Prey Via His Organization, Bay Raptor Rescue Through Bay Raptor Rescue, Craig Nikitas has dedicated his life to protecting and preserving local birds of prey.
Fellow Naturalists,
Tonight’s talk will be our last!
Thank you for your support over the past 16 years.
Due to some recent career changes, Jill and I are no longer able to continue organizing the club. Jill has been hired as the Animal Care Manager of Primates at the San Diego Zoo. I have accepted a position as the Assistant Curator of Invertebrates and Special Projects at the San Francisco Zoo. We are both very happy in our new jobs, but we simply no longer have time to devote to the club.
If you would like to contact us, feel free to email us at [email protected].
Best wishes!
Patrick and Jill
Thursday, July 10
The Wilds of San Francisco and You
The San Francisco Naturalist Society welcomes Brent Plater, executive director of the Wild Equity Institute, for a photographic exploration of the remaining wild areas in San Francisco. San Francisco has 32 pockets of undeveloped land set aside for the preservation of the natural world. These pockets hold the last remnants of wildness once found across the lands where we now live. Do we have room in our parks and our hearts for nature in this city? Please join us to discuss the threats these natural areas face and learn how you can help these areas thrive.
Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA (map), 7:30 pm.
Free and open to everyone.
06/03/2014
Calif. brown pelican breeding population plunges The survey in Mexico's Gulf of California â" where about 90 percent of the pelicans typically breed and raise their chicks â" found that areas that typically host hundreds or thousands of nesting pairs held far fewer, and a few places were completely empty, the statement said. The bottom dropped o…
Thursday, April 10
iNaturalist.org
Ken-ichi Ueda is an avid naturalist with a background in both biology and software development. He developed iNaturalist while pursuing a Master's degree at the UC Berkeley School of Information in 2008. Come learn about this amazing naturalist tool from the man who invented it!
Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 94114. 7:30-9 pm. For more information, go to www.sfns.org or contact Patrick Schlemmer at [email protected] or (415) 225-3830.
Free and open to everyone.
03/31/2014
31 MARCH 2014
BREAKING NEWS: Whales 1, Whalers 0. The whales win!
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Japan’s so called ‘scientific whaling’ program breaks international law and must stop.
Over the last 25 years, more than 10,000 whales have been killed in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary by Japanese whalers.
That ends today.
The judgments of the ICJ have binding force and are without appeal.
Thank you and congratulations to everyone who stood up for the whales! This is a huge victory.
02/06/2014
Richardson Bay Sets Winter Bird Count Record - At 23,000 birds, the tally in Richardson Bay this December was higher than any year since the surveys began in fall 2006 -- much higher. The...
02/05/2014
Thursday, February 13
My Furry Valentine
Naturalist and Zookeeper Patrick Schlemmer describes some of the more colorful mating strategies in the animal kingdom. Adults only. Guaranteed to shock you or your money back!
Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 94114. 7:30-9 pm. For more information, go to www.sfns.org.
01/30/2014
Snowy plovers a welcome surprise at Alameda beach To the shock of naturalists and bird watchers, a flock of threatened western snowy plovers has taken up residence on one of the Bay Area's busiest beaches. For the past few months, since the East Bay Regional Park District dumped 82,000 cubic yards of new sand on the beach, the fist-size shorebirds…
01/05/2014
TONIGHT: Quadrantid meteor shower! Grab your favorite human and stay up late. Morrison Planetarium assistant director Bing Quock has the details: http://bit.ly/19Ua6s1
12/28/2013
Snow Geese | KQED Wintering birds are flocking to the Delta, but none excites Michael Ellis as much as snow geese.