The endangered California Least Tern is making its annual trip up the coast to breed on our beaches. The bird is particularly sensitive to habitat loss and disturbance during this period, so if you see any on the beach, keep your distance. While we know this bird is coming from Mexico, exactly where it winters [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Audubon Chapters'
California Least Tern moving up
April 25th, 2013 · by gfrost
Tags: Audubon California · Audubon Chapters · Bird L.A. · Birding · Pacific Flyway · spring migration
Volunteer with Audubon on Earth Day
April 17th, 2013 · by dogden
Spread your wings (hehe, see what we did there?) this Earth Day and discover your local Audubon chapter. Here is a list of volunteer opportunities, but please add any we missed in the comments, and if you want to find an event in your neck of the woods search our directory: Eastern Sierra Audubon Society [...]
Tags: Audubon Chapters
A brief history of Audubon in California
March 2nd, 2013 · by gfrost
Audubon was making an impact long before the establishment of Audubon California in 1996. Check out the slideshow below for a quick overview (click on the arrows to advance the slides): Share on Facebook
Tags: Audubon California · Audubon Chapters
Great story about the value of nature to urban kids
March 1st, 2013 · by gfrost
Terrific story out of Los Angeles about how a native garden at a public school downtown is doing the kids a world of good. Share on Facebook
Tags: Audubon California · Audubon Chapters · Bird L.A. · Nature education and activities
Pacific Flyway Audubon chapters did amazing things in 2012
February 25th, 2013 · by gfrost
Audubon chapters in the Pacific Flyway did amazing things in 2012. After receiving reports from 91 chapters, we created the infographic below: Share on Facebook
Tags: Audubon Alaska · Audubon California · Audubon Chapters · Bird conservation · Birding · Pacific Flyway
Moving forward at the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Preserve
February 20th, 2013 · by gfrost
Remember that controversy over the holidays where the Army Corps tore up habitat at the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Preserve over the holidays? Well, thanks to our friends at the San Fernando Valley Audubon Society, things are better now. Share on Facebook
Tags: Audubon California · Audubon Chapters · Bird L.A.
Progress following Sepulveda Basin disaster?
February 12th, 2013 · by gfrost
KCET is reporting that significant progress has been made between the Army Corps of Engineers and the San Fernando Valley Audubon Society following the Corps’ surprising destruction of natural habitat at the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve. Share on Facebook
Tags: Audubon Chapters · Bird Habitat · Bird L.A.
Meet legendary raptor field expert Pete Bloom at Debs Park, Feb. 13.
February 8th, 2013 · by gfrost
Decades ago, Pete Bloom helped capture the last wild California Condor for captive breeding — and thus helped save this marvelous species from extinction. He went on to become of our country’s best raptor field experts. You can meet Bloom at Los Angeles Audubon’s monthly program at the Audubon Center at Debs Park. He’ll be [...]
Tags: Audubon California · Audubon Center at Debs Park · Audubon Chapters · Bird L.A. · Birding · Conservation research
Bird deaths on the decline at Altamont
January 30th, 2013 · by gfrost
If you’ve been following this issue, you know that the Altamont Pass wind energy farm has long been a black eye on the alternative energy industry because of the massive numbers of birds that are killed in the turbines. The fight against this outrage has been led by Golden Gate Audubon and a coalition of [...]
Tags: Alternative energy · Audubon California · Audubon Chapters · Bird conservation · S.F. Bay · Wind power
L.A. Audubon’s ‘Kill Your Lawn’ comic book
January 17th, 2013 · by gfrost
If you haven’t seen it, the Los Angeles Audubon Society has the coolest comic book on its website touting the idea of killing your lawn and installing native plants for birds and other wildlife. It was written and illustrated by the students in the chapter’s Baldwin Hills Greenhouse Program. Super cool. Share on Facebook
Tags: Audubon at Home · Audubon Chapters · Bird L.A.
More sad news out of the Sepulveda Basin
January 17th, 2013 · by gfrost
The Los Angeles Times is reporting today that the Army Corps of Engineers didn’t even the proper permits when it went in and wrecked a ton of natural habitat at the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Refuge over the holidays. Share on Facebook
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Keeping the heat on the Army Corps over Sepulveda Basin
January 4th, 2013 · by gfrost
The uproar over the recent Army Corps of Engineers’ actions at the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve is continuing. And our friends at the San Fernando Valley Audubon Society tell us that they aren’t going to let up until things are made right again. San Fernando Audubon has a lot more about this on its website, [...]
Tags: Audubon California · Audubon Chapters · Bird Habitat · Bird L.A.
Al the albatross returns to Pt. Arena
December 28th, 2012 · by gfrost
Locals in Pt. Arena worried that their fabled Laysan Albatross hadn’t arrived to spend the winter in their harbor were pleased to discover this week that the bird, nicknamed Al, had finally arrived. Al’s strange embrace of Pt. Arena has been documented for years, and become the stuff of local legend. For more of the [...]
Tags: Audubon Chapters · Birding
San Fernando Valley Audubon decries habitat destruction in Sepulveda Basin
December 28th, 2012 · by gfrost
Over the years, the San Fernando Valley Audubon Society has done a lot to protect and celebrate bird habitat in the Sepulveda Basin. So our friends there were outraged when they found that the Army Corps of Engineers had gone in there and wiped out a lot of great vegetation. Kudos to the Audubon chapter [...]
Tags: Audubon Chapters · Bird Habitat · Bird L.A.
Reflections on the Christmas Bird Count in Debs Park
December 15th, 2012 · by jchapman
For the past several years, member of the Arroyo Green Team have participated in Aududon’s annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC). This year, members headed out into Debs Park to see what birds were around.
Tags: Audubon California · Audubon Center at Debs Park · Audubon Chapters · Bird L.A. · Birding · Christmas Bird Count · Volunteer