10,000 Birds
JULY 30, 2014
However, I am here to make the case for birding California. Northeastern California. This lovely corner of California is vast, beautiful, sparsely populated, and very wild. Northwestern California. Northern California pelagics (Monterey Bay north to Humboldt County). Best seasons here: Fall and Winter. Arcata, CA.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2012
Living in Northern California offers nature lovers many opportunities to view wildlife in there native habitat. Most of the Osprey breeding in North America are migratory, only Florida, the Caribbean and Baja California host non-migratory breeders 1. Click on photos for full sized images.
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Critter News
MAY 26, 2009
I didn't know that there were specific breeders out there producing animal subjects for medical research. According to this article, some are so bad that the University of California and the University of Cincinnati have actually decided to end their relationships with them and stop purchasing animals bred for research use.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2011
I found this cluster of Yellow-headed Blackbirds in Sierra Valley, California, on a bird outing with the local Audubon Society after installing some artificial Burrowing Owl habitat earlier that day. You can hear the Yellow-headed Blackbird call by clicking on the sound link courtesy of Xeno-Canto.org.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
Can California Condors be taught to avoid the dangers of power lines ? North American breeders winging their way south for the winter may want to head for the Bahamas, where a new national park offers them protected habitat. Staff from the San Diego Zoo think so.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2022
There are charismatic birds like Barrow’s Goldeneye, Evening Grosbeak, Red and White-winged Crossbills; mysterious seabirds like Leach’s Storm-Petrel; ‘little brown jobs’ like Winter Wren and Nelson’s Sparrow; a treasury of warbler species, 27 in all, many state breeders.
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2012
Here in Northern California I am fortunate to have at least three of the western hummingbirds of North America visiting my yard. She is the latest of our local breeders, not nesting usually until mid-May. The female is the earliest breeder of all these species, arriving on breeding grounds shortly after the males in November.
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