So what are a bunch of researchers and conservationists from Audubon California doing in Victoria, Canada? Well, they’re attending the first ever World Seabird Conference to promote new research on West Coast marine important bird areas. Working closely with our Audubon colleagues from The National Audubon Society, Audubon Alaska, Nature Canada, and host of top [...]

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The Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary in Tiberon just wrapped up its 2010 summer camps. More than 500 campers ages 4 through 11 had a blast exploring our Sanctuary and all things nature with Audubon Summer Adventures. Campers delved into sharks, bugs, water, birds, trees, dirt, compost, geology, bay science, lichens, sand, decomposers, snakes, [...]

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The seas were rough, the marine layer hung over us, but the wildlife was inspiring Sunday at the Farallon Islands, our local Galapagos, and beyond to the edge of the continental shelf break where predators and prey aggregate in the late spring and summer following strong coastal upwelling.  This feeding hotspot attracts large numbers of [...]

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There is perhaps no better wild place on the earth than the Galápagos Islands. Audubon California Executive Director Graham Chisholm is leading a 10-day Audubon Nature Odyssey tour of the islands December 4-13 aboard the Lindblad National Geographic Islander (holding 48 passengers). The birds and wildlife should be amazing. Click here for more information. (Photo [...]

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The State Wildlife Conservation board yesterday approved the purchase of the Hellman Ranch wetlands, adding its 100 acres to about 62 other acres already set aside for restoration. The wetlands are part of a corridor of important bird habitat along the Long Beach-Orange County shoreline. (photo by Daryl Supernaw)
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One of the largest wetlands restoration projects in U.S. history is entering its last phase in the North San Francisco Bay.
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So just about everyone understands that fire is a normal, usually beneficial force in a nature ecosystem. But that’s only when fire is allowed to come and go naturally. In parts of California, fires have been hitting more frequently than normal, and buring much more intensely. These types of frequent, intense fires can actually change [...]

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The Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary’s Junior Naturalist program is an exciting way for older kids to share what they’ve learned with youngsters while continuing to learn about nature.

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Members of the Bolsa Chica Land Trust are upset that the city of Huntington Beach has approved a new housing development close to prescious wetland habitat, and are suing to stop it. The Bolsa Chica Wetlands are part of the Orange Coast Wetlands Important Bird Area.
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Yesterday we talked about the end of banding season at the Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary, but that’s not the only Audubon California site that wrapped up its season recently. Last Saturday, volunteer banders at the Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary also held their last session of the season. The day’s total included 16 birds [...]

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The Audubon Starr Ranch recently ended its annual bird banding season, and the final day this past week found some very interesting birds in our mist nests. This included Warbling Vireos, as well as hatch year Lesser Goldfinches, Rufous Crowned Sparrows, Common Yellowthroat, and Mourning Doves. The 19 species banded brought the season’s total to [...]

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If you’re in the area, you may want to stop by the Audubon Kern River Preserve’s Hummingbird Celebration this Saturday. Everybody likes hummingbirds, right? (photo by Alison Sheehey)
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Audubon California has joined with The Nature Conservancy and PRBO Conservation Science on a landmark project to help migratory birds in California. While you’ll be hearing a great deal more about this project in the coming months, our website has a good overview of the work we’re doing. (photo by Alison Sheehey)
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The National Audubon Society, with the Environmental Defense Fund and the National Wildlife Federation, has issued a report that outlines the necessary steps to restore and rebuild an ecosystem that even before the recent catastrophic oil spill, has lost more than 2,300 square miles of wetlands—an area larger than the state of Delaware—since the 1930s. Here’s the press [...]

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The Santa Cruz Sentinel today editorializes that budget cuts to California State Parks have left the system in extremely poor shape. Maintenance is down, hours have been cut, and crime and vandalism is on the rise. The paper takes the position that the only way to save this wondrous resource is the California State Parks [...]

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