AltaCal Bird Alliance’s Snow Goose Festival of the Pacific Flyway
See you next year at the
26th Snow Goose Festival of the Pacific Flyway, January, 2026
Meetings & Events
Meetings are held the third Monday of each month at
6:30 p.m.
All meetings are open to the community via a HYBRID meeting: either in-person at the Chico Creek Nature Center (1968 E 8th St, Chico, CA 95928) or via Zoom.
See descriptions below.
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Field Trips
Liability Waiver
AltaCal Bird Alliance requires that the Liability Waiver be completed and signed before participating in any field trip. Each participant only needs to complete one per year for AltaCal (although this does NOT cover the liability waiver for the Snow Goose Festival). The Field Trip Coordinator will keep the Master File of all completed forms and send the information to the Field Trip Leaders before their trips.
Pre-registration required
- Signing an AltaCal Bird Alliance Liability Waiver is a requirement to attend all field trips. AltaCal's scheduled field trips are a great way to experience a variety of birding areas, with an experienced trip leader. Occasionally “Pop-up” Birding Field Trips, that aren’t listed here, will be posted on the AltaCal Facebook Page.
Monthly Program Presentations
Monthly Programs and Presentations for the general community are held on the 3rd Monday of each month at 6:30 pm. In December the meeting is held on the 2nd Monday.
In June, July, and August there are no meetings.
All presentations are held at
Chico Creek Nature Center
1968 E 8th St, Chico
and on Zoom
Rescuing Raptors and Protecting Watersheds
Monday, October 20, 2025 at 6:30 p.m.
Presented by Marily Woodhouse
Marily Woodhouse will give us a presentation about her work rescuing and rehabilitating raptors, and the threats to our local forests, in particular the Battle Creek watershed, due to cumulative impacts from the over-logging of industrial timberlands.
Marily Woodhouse is the director and founder of Battle Creek Alliance in Manton, California, and has been working to protect the watersheds, forests, and wildlife of the Battle Creek Watershed and California through research and data collection, field work, and individual plan commentary on logging and other detrimental plans since 2007.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9227958804?pwd=Fiz5B4XvMuU7gppWBjAW1iGDbOeTbO.1&omn=86222917149
Meeting ID 922 795 8804
Passcode 468753
Board Meetings
Board of Directors Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Contact AltaCal President Ken Sobon for time and location.
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7:30am First Saturday - Big Chico Creek Day Use and Washout
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6:30pm September Program: Northeast India: Mishmi Hills & Assam
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9am Kayaking Among the Birds: It's Magical
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Point Reyes National Seashore Camping & Birding
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Point Reyes National Seashore Camping & Birding