Support Education with our Year-End Fundraiser!

Our outreach and education continues to expand and we now seek support of the following activities. All donations before the end of 2025 will be matched dollar-for-dollar by a generous anonymous donation, thereby doubling your impact on bird conservation!

• Adopt a Survey for Giving Tuesday: 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.

• 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.

• The 2026 Pinyon Jay Bioblitz in Reno: A bioblitz is an exciting day for a large group of volunteers to spend in a designated area and identify each and every critter and plant they can. We focus this bioblitz on a Pinyon Jay hotspot, so we can get a snapshot of all the other animals and plants that live in their ecosystem. It’s not just a fun way to spend a day, it’s actually a monitoring tool that allows us to see what changes over time when it gets repeated.

•  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.

Again, your donation before the end of 2025 will be matched 1 : 1, therefore doubling your impact on our work!

Check out the type of work you will be supporting!

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.