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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Important Bird Areas'
We’re at the first World Seabird Conference in Victoria, Canada
September 7th, 2010 · by gfrost
Tags: Audubon California · Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Federal Policy · Graham Chisholm · Important Bird Areas · seabirds
Summer nature camps wrap up at Richardson Bay
September 1st, 2010 · by gfrost
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, [...]
Tags: Important Bird Areas · Nature education and activities · Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary · S.F. Bay
Murres and more – late summer wildlife outside the Golden Gate
August 31st, 2010 · by aweinstein
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 [...]
Tags: Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Important Bird Areas · seabirds
Ten days in the Galápagos
August 31st, 2010 · by gfrost
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 [...]
Tags: Birding · Graham Chisholm · Important Bird Areas
Important wetlands protected in So. California
August 27th, 2010 · by gfrost
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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Tags: Audubon Chapters · Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Graham Chisholm · Important Bird Areas · urban conservation
Napa-Sonoma marsh restoration’s last phase begins
August 26th, 2010 · by gfrost
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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Tags: Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Important Bird Areas · S.F. Bay
Fire Watch training in Orange County
August 23rd, 2010 · by gfrost
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 [...]
Tags: Bird Habitat · Important Bird Areas · Starr Ranch Sanctuary
Junior naturalists at Richardson Bay
August 16th, 2010 · by gfrost
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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Tags: Audubon California · Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Important Bird Areas · Nature education and activities · Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary
Bolsa Chica supporters sue city over development
August 14th, 2010 · by gfrost
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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Tags: Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Important Bird Areas · Local Policy
Banding season wraps at Richardson Bay
August 11th, 2010 · by gfrost
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 [...]
Tags: Audubon California · Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Conservation research · Important Bird Areas · Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary · Starr Ranch Sanctuary
Final day of bird banding at Audubon Starr Ranch nets some great birds
August 10th, 2010 · by gfrost
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 [...]
Tags: Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Birding · Conservation research · Important Bird Areas · Starr Ranch Sanctuary · Wildlife photos and video
Audubon Kern River Preserve Hummingbird Festival this Saturday
August 5th, 2010 · by gfrost
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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Tags: Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Birding · Important Bird Areas · Kern River Preserve · Nature education and activities
Audubon California part of innovative partnership aimed at helping state’s migratory birds
July 28th, 2010 · by gfrost
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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Tags: Audubon California · Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Conservation research · Important Bird Areas · Landowner Stewardship
Audubon joins other environmental groups in laying out strategy for Gulf cleanup
July 28th, 2010 · by gfrost
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 [...]
Tags: Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · Federal Policy · Important Bird Areas · National Audubon Society · Pollution
Editorial: Prop 21 is only solution for California State Parks
July 28th, 2010 · by gfrost
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 [...]
Tags: Bird Habitat · Bird conservation · California State Parks · Important Bird Areas · Nature education and activities