Audubon California Executive Director Graham Chisholm and Nell Newman, founder of Newman’s Own Organics and a noted raptor advocate, have an opinion piece in tomorrow’s San Francisco Chronicle demanding that the County of Alameda get serious about addressing the problem of bird kills at the Altamont Pass wind energy farm. It is estimated that somewhere [...]

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Representatives of Audubon California today expressed deep disappointment at this afternoon’s decision by the California Fish & Game Commission to continue allowing hunting for Greater Sage-Grouse, despite a recent finding by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service that its recent declines make it worthy of protection under the Endangered Species Act. In response to a [...]

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Audubon California’s 2010 Yellow-billed Magpie tracked twice as many of the birds as did our first effort last year. Nearly twice as many people participated as last year, as well. Read the whole report for more information on where the birds were found and in what numbers. Our thanks go out to everyone that took [...]

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Now that the new Marine Protected Areas have been established for California’s North Central Coast, Samantha Murray and Josh Churchman are driving up and down the region letting people know how important it is for us to make this new designation work. Audubon California is very much in support of the new Marine Protected Areas, [...]

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Short video from Audubon about our efforts to save birds in the Gulf:

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Great TV news piece about the San Diego Audubon Society’s program that uses children’s are to raise awareness about the Western Snowy Plover on the beach. We’re proud to have helped secure funding for this great project from Audubon’s Pennies for the Planet Program and the Morrisse Family Foundation.
 
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As the San Benito County Board of Supervisors begins to consider approval for a massive solar energy plant on the floor of Panoche Valley, representatives of Audubon California today expressed serious concerns about the potential such a project could have on sensitive birds and habitat. Audubon California has listed Panoche Valley as an Important Bird [...]

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While researchers are pleased that California Condors breeding in the Big Sur area have begun feeding on seal carcasses, an increased incidence of thin eggs shells has them concerned that the birds might be getting DDT from this food source. Many of the seals in Big Sur breed in Southern California, where industrial DDT contamination is [...]

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Thermalito Afterbay is a funny name for anything, needless to say an artificial lake about 90 minutes north of Sacramento. But this artificial lake is special because it is one of the four main breeding grounds for Western Grebes and Clark’s Grebes in California. Yesterday, some of us from Audubon California went up there to [...]

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For the next six months, beginning in early July, tens of millions of shorebirds, waterfowl and other migratory birds will land on oiled beaches, in sullied coastal wetlands and on tainted ocean waters. For some, the Gulf marks a rest stop, an opportunity to take a break and feed en route to more southern destinations; [...]

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The Center for Biological Diversity today notified the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service of its intent to sue the agency to compel it to list the Ashy Storm-Petrel under the Endangered Species Act. You might recall that last year the agency decided not to list the species, even though it is in great danger of [...]

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Fascinating blog post by Audubon Magazine’s Kim Hubbard, who is in Louisiana documenting the impact of oil on birds. These are heartbreaking images, but we probably should look at them, as we need to be reminded what oil can do to a shoreline.
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Scientists doing research into the feeding habits of Bald Eagles on the Channel Islands have found that diets shifted according to resources on the islands. This has some fearing that the eagles might turn on the thousand or so endangered island foxes or threatened seabirds. Los Angeles Times and New York Times.
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Great story about the San Diego Audubon Society’s program that enlists kids to help save the Western Snowy Plover. Audubon California helped line up funding.
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In a new effort to involve local communities in conserving one of California’s most endangered birds, four local Audubon chapters (Los Angeles Audubon, San Diego Audubon, Ventura Audubon and Redwood Region Audubon in Humboldt County) are using children’s art to build awareness about the need to safeguard beach nesting sites for the Western Snowy Plover. [...]

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