WFVZ Bird Museum and Research Center

09/01/2026

The WFVZ Bird Museum’s 70th Anniversary Party this past weekend was wonderful! It was a beautiful evening at Camarillo Grove Park filled with laughter, good food, a silent auction, and fellow bird-lovers! Thank you to Famous Taco Bar🌮 for their delicious tacos and Doris Bakery Panaderia for their amazing cake, and thank you to everyone who donated items for our silent auction! We would also like to give a big thank you as well to everyone who came to support the Bird Museum. We truly appreciate your support and are so glad we could spend the museum’s 70th anniversary with you all!

08/29/2026

08/26/2026

Here’s a quick look as WFVZ Bird Museum staff prepare for the museum’s 70th Anniversary Party on Saturday! We’re making some fun signs and getting decorations ready. You can also get a sneak peek at where part of the celebration will be held - a cute nature center with some awesome taxidermy animals! We can't wait to celebrate with you! 🥳🐦

08/25/2026

This Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) nested inside of an office building, in a mission-themed diorama! Unfortunately, the eggs did not hatch, and the nest, along with the eggs, were donated to the museum. Starting this week, you can visit the museum and view this incredibly unique nest! Click the link in our bio or see our website to book a visit to the museum to see this nest as well as our thousands of other displays of eggs, nests, and taxidermy birds!

And don’t forget that the Bird Museum’s 70th Anniversary Party is THIS SATURDAY, from 5pm to 7pm in Camarillo. Visit our bio or website for more information and to get your tickets!

Video credit: Mike Cohn

08/24/2026

Don't forget that the WFVZ Bird Museum's 70th Anniversary Party is THIS SATURDAY, August 29th from 5pm to 7pm. We will have a free dinner, a silent auction, a guest speaker, and more, so don't miss this egg-citing event! For more information and to reserve your spot, please visit the events calendar in our bio or our website!

08/21/2026

The WFVZ Bird Museum’s 70th Anniversary Party is NEXT SATURDAY, August 29th from 5pm to 7pm!

Here is a behind the scenes look at the party, including our silent auction items and the beautiful location where the party will be held! Silent auction items were donated by the Moore Lab of Zoology, Ojai Raptor Center, American Birding Association, Island Packers, the Santa Barbara Museum, Friends of the California Condor, the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, and Mike Banducci, a Los Angeles-based watercolorist.

The party will be held at the Nature Center at Camarillo Oak Grove Park in Camarillo, a beautiful park with lots of shady oak trees, hiking trails, gardens, and a play structure for kids!

Parking is free with your event ticket, and you will also receive a free authentic Mexican dinner! We will have a guest speaker, and we will have museum board and staff members to talk about all things bird! Tickets are $40 for adults, $20 for kids ages 6-15, kids 5 and under get in free. Visit our events calendar in our bio or visit our website to reserve your spot. Don’t miss out on a great time!

08/19/2026

PhD student, Chia-Ying, from Purdue University, is visiting the WFVZ Bird Museum for her studies. She is collecting samples of fungi from a large diversity of the museum’s bird nest collections to identify the species of fungi and to understand why certain bird species use the fungi in the lining and structure of their nests.

08/17/2026

The WFVZ Bird Museum’s 70th Anniversary Party is coming up! Don’t miss out!

🐦💬 This event will be held on Saturday, August 29th from 5pm to 7pm at Camarillo Grove Park Nature Center in Camarillo. Each guest will receive free parking for one vehicle, an authentic Mexican Taco dinner with beverages, an update about Bird Museum news and events and a talk by a special guest speaker, and an opportunity to visit with our staff of ecologists, biologists, and science communicators!

🐦‍⬛💬 We also will have fun bird-related raffles for kids and adults at the event, and a silent auction including items donated by the American Birding Association, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Ojai Raptor Center, and the Moore Lab of Ornithology!

🦜💬 Tickets are $40 per adult and $20 per child, ages 6 to 15. Children 5 and under enter free. Visit our events page on our website (wfvz.org) or visit our 70th Anniversary Party link in our bio to reserve your spot! You won’t want to miss this event; it’s bound to be a hoot!🦉

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