Last week California State Parks released its new General Plan and Environmental Impact Report for Big Basin State Park in Santa Cruz County. The Park has the largest stand of old growth redwood south of San Francisco, and harbors the vast majority of remaining  central coast marbled murrelet. It is literally the key to the future for [...]

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We were strolling on the Belmont Pier in Long Beach a few weeks ago and snapped this photo of a container for used fishing line. Given the harm that monofilament line can cause birds, it’s great to see people stepping up to get this danger out of the environment. Monofilament fishing line is amazingly strong [...]

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It has been fun watching the Purple Martin make its way north up the Pacific Flyway from its South American winter grounds. The bird is now solidly throughout California. This deeply-hued bird is an easy one to attract to backyards and open lands during its breeding season. This bird is desirable to attract, not only [...]

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Reports of Grasshopper Sparrows have been constant this Pacific Migration. This small sparrow does indeed eat grasshoppers, as well as other insects, seeds, and other vegetation they forage for on the ground. The Sparrow can be hard to spot because it spends so much time on the ground, but males will perch on top of [...]

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  An article published in Science (Fields, Helen. “Clues to Species Decline Buried in Pile of Bird Excrement.” Science. 17 April 2012) suggests that the secret to helping threatened bird species may in fact live in their poop. Poop? You may ask, yes, or so say’s Queen’s University research technician Chris Grooms. Grooms volunteers for an environmental group in Ontario, Canada, [...]

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Congressman John Porter (R-IL) read a resolution into the Congressional Record on February 23, 1994 proclaiming February as National Bird-Feeding Month: Share on Facebook

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As told to our Facebook fan Sharon D. by her friend in Montana: This has to be the weirdest thing that ever floated by me on the Snake River.  A Falcon and a snake were stuck together in death lock, each wanting to kill the other first.  My guess is that the Falcon snatched up [...]

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At Audubon California, we are often asked about preventing bird collisions. It is estimated that around 3.5 million birds die each year from strikes in the U.S. alone. Share on Facebook

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Audubon California staff last year pulled down a 20-foot-tall ventilation pipe from an abandoned irrigation system on one of our properties and discovered a seven-foot-long black mass composed entirely of decomposed carcasses of hundreds of dead birds and animals including kestrels, flickers, bluebirds, and fence lizards. The date etched into the concrete at the base of the pipe showed [...]

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