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Thank you for your generous support! Because of donors like you, our outreach and education efforts continue to grow and reach more communities each year.

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None of our donor information will ever be shared. If you prefer, you may mail a check to:

Great Basin Bird Observatory
1755 E. Plumb Lane
Suite 256A
Reno, NV 89502

Your donation will help support:

  • Volunteer training: Here we train volunteers on how to identify birds, survey for, and stay safe while searching for Pinyon Jays and their main food source, pinyon pine nuts. So far, volunteers have already collected over 6,000 records, mostly in places that have never been surveyed!

  •  Educational presentations: We are regularly invited by birding groups, citizen clubs and societies, and colleges to present our findings on bird conservation to raise awareness in our region. These educational events are largely unfunded but critical for continuing broad public support for birds in Nevada.

  •  Banding demonstrations and workshops: Nevada has the lowest number of bird banders in the West, and our goal with banding demonstrations and workshops is to recruit long-term volunteers for ongoing banding programs. A banding station requires help from several skilled volunteers, and Reno’s birding community is growing rapidly. This provides us the opportunity to establish a volunteer circle who can sustain a banding station, which helps us monitor which birds and how many depend on our riparian areas for migration stopover.

  • Guided educational bird walks: Bird walks are fun all by themselves, and our bird walks come with explanations of natural history, conservation issues, and discussion of biogeography of the birds observed during the walk to broaden our birders’ knowledge and perspective on the species they love.

Additional programs to support:

  • Adopt a Survey: Adopting a survey is one of the most direct ways to support GBBO’s bird conservation work. A survey transect is the basic unit of our bird surveys: biologists follow a set route and record birds at predefined points along the way and collect data from a standardized protocol the exact same way each time. Each donor will receive a complete bird list collected on their adopted survey transect in 2026.

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All donations to GBBO are tax-deductible (minus 2.9% + 30 cent processing fee by our e-commerce service).
Unless specified otherwise, donations will go to our funds for bird conservation assistance and public education.
Donors will receive a tax receipt.