Hatched! Baby bald eagle attracts shutterbugs at Milpitas school.
Eagerly awaited eaglet has hatched at a busy Milpitas school.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/21/baby-bald-eagle-hatches-at-milpitas-school/
Eagerly awaited eaglet has hatched at a busy Milpitas school.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/21/baby-bald-eagle-hatches-at-milpitas-school/
A California man had been arrested last month at Los Angeles International Airport for attempting to smuggle 93 songbirds into the country.
The Audubon Society puts the number of bird species in Big Bear Lake at about 250. There are year-round feathered residents as well as temporary guests such as the bald eagle and white pelican. Some of those temporary guests have decided they like it in Big Bear and have decided to stick around a little longer than usual.
Over the last few months, a stack of new books has accumulated on my desk. Here are a few of the titles I recommend.
As part of Audubon California's fourth annual Bird LA Day, a group counts bird species during a 24-hour period in the city of Los Angeles, starting in Griffith Park.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-la-bird-day-20170505-story.html
The Yurok Tribe, along with Redwood National Park and the US Fish and Wildlife Service have been working on a plan to reintroduce the condor on the Tribe’s traditional lands since 2003. The project is going through the final planning stages with an estimated time of first release being Fall of 2019.
http://kymkemp.com/2017/05/09/california-condor-may-fly-over-the-northcoast-again/
Wildlife rescuers have their hands full this spring as hundreds of seabirds are coming to shore possibly suffering from domoic acid poisoning.
Birds are the only wild animals we typically encounter on a daily basis. Sometimes it’s easy to ignore geese migrating overhead, or seagulls and pigeons eating scraps on restaurant patios. Observing them more closely reveals a parallel world of immense beauty and wonder.
California’s largest lake, the Salton Sea, is an accident. It was created in 1905 when a levee broke on an irrigation canal, flooding a giant desert playa. Today it has become a sticking point in negotiations between three states over the future of the Colorado River.
Last month local birders joined in a statewide survey of tri-colored blackbirds. These birds look much like their more common and widespread relatives, the red-winged blackbirds, and they are even found in similar marshy habitats. But the two speak different languages and have markedly different lifestyles.