We’re seeing a lot of talk on the listservs about a Common Cuckoo in Watsonville, CA. While the bird isn’t exactly rare, it’s extremely unusual to see it here in California. This is a bird that normally frequents Europe and Asia, though once in a while a migrant will fly off course to the United [...]

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Caught an interesting post on the listservs from Allen Fish, director of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory in the Marin Headlands. Hawk-counters at the GGRO yesterday apparently recorded 295 sightings of Broad-winged Hawks from Hawk Hill during a 4-hour count period. This is a higher one-day Broad-wing count by a factor of five than has ever [...]

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One of the biggest tragedies of today’s partisan political environment is how it has affected our discussions about protecting this country’s great natural treasures. Today, Audubon launches a new effort to remind people that protecting birds and nature is something nearly everyone agrees on. We all live under the same sky, breathe the same air, [...]

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Sometimes migration doesn’t go quite right for a bird…like the Dickcissel (a Midwestern prairie bird) that showed up in Bethel, Alaska. Listen to this radio story as a local birder relives finding this out-of-place bird and learn more from Alaska wildlife experts about how birds wind up off course during migration: There’s a good view [...]

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We’re hearing from the list serves that a Canada Warbler was seen this morning in Sutro Heights Park in San Francisco.  This sweet-faced New World warbler isn’t typically found east of the Rockies. A long annual migration takes it to its wintering grounds in northern South America, where habitat loss is a threat. It sometimes [...]

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We’ve all seen the movie. Our hero, lost in the desert, unscrews the cap from his canteen and pours his last drop of water into his parched mouth. He stumbles on under a relentless sun. Ominous shadows on the ground prompt him to look skyward. Circling overhead are one, then two, then three vultures. We [...]

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Lush stands of willows and Sycamores, flowing water, Great Blue Herons and Belted Kingfishers.  These are not your typical visions of the Los Angeles River, but this month, member of the Audubon Center at Debs Park’s Arroyo Green Team have experienced this urban habitat by kayak.  Led by LA River Expeditions, teen participants have gotten [...]

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We know this, but the Desert Sun provides a nice reminder of how important the Salton Sea remains for birds along the Pacific Flyway: It’s one of the last rest stops and breeding grounds left for millions of migrating birds, representing more than 400 species, that travel the Pacific Flyway — a bird superhighway that [...]

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Audubon said all along that Shell was totally unprepared to safely drill for oil in the Arctic. And with each passing day this summer, the oil giant proved us right. Share on Facebook

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For the past 7 years, the Audubon Center at Debs Park has given college students the opportunity to learn more about Audubon, conservation, and environmental education.  Our internship program employs 4 students each summer to help us deliver our summer day camp program:  An Arroyo Adventure.  Over the course of the summer, these talented people [...]

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Time for a fun song this Friday! Share on Facebook

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Richard Cimino snapped this cool photo of a Northern Pygmy Owl this week at the Audubon Bobcat Ranch, while leading a birding walk through the property. Cimino was leading a group from the Ohlone Audubon Society, where he is conservation chair. A total of 20 species were seen on the hike, including Black-throated Grey Warbler and [...]

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After nearly two years of internal discussions, budget modeling, head-scratching, and intense decision-making, two major changes will come to the Christmas Bird Count effective with the upcoming 113th Count that runs Dec. 14, 2012 to Jan. 5, 2013. First, the CBC will now be a free program. For the first time since 1955, Audubon will waive the $5 participant fee and replace it with [...]

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Here’s a great – and easy – opportunity to recognize a terrific Audubon activist and raise money for a much-needed conservation program. Leora Feeney, a longtime champion of the endangered California Least Terns and other wildlife at a Bay Area wildlife refuge is a finalist for a local television conservation hero award. If she gets [...]

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