Our Volunteers...
                                         Dr. Hall & Volunteer Peg Stevens at the Int'l Migratory Bird Day Fair.

Volunteers are an important part of the Western Foundation. Their efforts help us grow and help us serve researchers and others in the community. They also have an opportunity to experience things that many people don’t, like fieldwork, museum work, and getting up close to bird study skins from around the world! Recently, our volunteers were busy pricing and organizing natural history & duplicate bird books from our library for our fundraising sale. They worked for over 2 months pricing and cataloging over 600 books!

Past and current projects include:                         

*Checking the bird study skins for bugs

*Preparing study skins

*Entering study skin/teaching collection data

*Reorganizing the broken egg collection

*Cataloging and shelving library books

*Computerizing the library book collection        Eddie & René Corado prepare study skins.

*Entering and shelving library journals

*Assisting with tours

*Photocopying requested journal articles

*Assisting at outreach events such as fairs and expos

*Reorganizing and computerizing the fieldnotes collection

*Entering reprint articles into the database

*Reorganizing the map collection

Current volunteers at the Western Foundation are:

Bill Anderson
Dixie Anderson
Chris Bumbar
Eddie Corado
Peggy Ellis
Jean Hulberg
Bill Hulberg
Chrystal Klabunde
Bill Langford
Nobuko McClure
Linda Reynolds
Peg Stevens

                                             

Peggy Ellis & Karl Letsch preparing for the Book Sale.


To say thanks for all their hard work, Dr. Linnea Hall hosted a songbird identification workshop for the WFVZ volunteers on Oct 2nd. The session focused specifically on local and vagrant warblers, vireos, and some flycatchers. These species can be particularly difficult to I.D. because of their similarity in appearance and quick movements. Male, female, & juvenile specimens from the main collection were used so the volunteers could study the morphological differences closely and become more familiar with plumage variations within and between species. Thirteen volunteers attended and René Corado showed up to lend a hand. Everyone had a great time and learned a lot about these tricky birds. The WFVZ will host more I.D. workshops as well as other events for our volunteers in the future. Thanks again volunteers for all your hard work & dedication!

If you are interested in becoming a WFVZ volunteer, please call or email us! Right now we especially need someone with website experience who could help with the updates to our site, but anyone who likes birds and wants to contribute their time and energy is welcome!

Jean Hulberg, Nobuko McClure, & Bill Hulberg man the booth at the CSUCI Earth Day Fair.

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