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NEWSLETTER OF THE ALTACAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Chapter of the National Audubon Society serving Butte, Glenn, and Tehama Counties of Northern California
APRIL/ MAY 2014
ALTACAL Programs
Programs for the general community are normally held on the third Monday of each month
at 6:30 p.m., at the Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. 8th St.- Chico.
In December the program is held on the second Monday and in July and August there are no programs.
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Monday, April 21, 2014 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 19, 2014 6:30 p.m.
Chico Creek Nature Center Chico Creek Nature Center
NATIVE TREES & PLANTS TASMANIA: Really Down Under
for Bird Habitat A Birder's Travelogue
Presented by JOSEPH O'NEIL & KAREN VELAS Presented by MAC MCCORMICK
oseph will review slides of some of the native trees that will
be seen on his Birds & Trees Walk at Butte Creek Ecological
Preserve on April 27. He will go over the many resources that trees
provide for our feathered friends, explaining how tree identification
is a useful tool to understanding and locating birds better. Karen
will discuss the benefits of California native plant hedgerows to
birds in the agricultural landscape of the Central Valley. She will
provide an overview of plant species that attract birds and talk
about her ongoing study which looks at overwintering and breed-
ing songbirds in hedgerows along farm field margins. She will be
leading a trip to Bobcat Ranch on May 17. (Continued on page 2.)