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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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 and local chapters in California have long felt that nature education is conservation. What this means is that if we want to protect the state’s magnificent natural treasures into the future, we need to ensure that the next generation of Californians appreciates the great outdoors as much as we do. In an effort [...]

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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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Great to see the San Jose Mercury News come out in favor of Prop. 21, the California State Parks Initiative. The initiative will protect our parts with a steady source of revenue, and provide Californians with access to all of these great treasures. Audubon California proudly supports the measure, as well.
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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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Back in January, Audubon California’s Executive Director Graham Chisholm traveled to Myanmar as part of an expedition to find the rare Spoon-billed Sandpiper. He reported on that trip here. Just recently, we discovered this great footage of the bird on YouTube, captured by another expedition to Russia. Of course all of this has very little [...]

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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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The Center for Biological Diversity and the American Bird Conservancy this week began their public launch of a new campaign to ban the use of lead ammunition and lead fishing weights because of the impact on birds and other wildlife. Of course, this is something that we at Audubon California have long felt strong about [...]

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With the recent designation that the Los Angeles River is a navigable waterway, and thus subject to the Clean Water Act, L.A. Times reporter Louis Sahagun and a group of river activists decided to kayak part of the river and take a look at what’s in there. Gabriela Castañeda, from the Audubon Center at Debs Park, [...]

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Despite a well-funded ballot initiative launched by out-of-state oil companies to strike down California’s landmark climate change law, public support for the law is holding strong and steady, according to a new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California. Audubon California is a strong supporter of Assembly Bill 32.
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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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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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Audubon California and PRBO Conservation Science recently held two shorebird survey training workshops at the Yolo Wildlife Area and Cosumnes River Preserve. As thousands of Arctic-breeding shorebirds descend upon the Central Valley in the coming weeks, these volunteers will collect valuable data about how these birds use flooded fallow rice fields for habitat. The monitoring [...]

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