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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

10,000 Birds

It is the last day of 2015, time to select the bird of the year past and set goals for the bright open future, when everything is new again. Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan. Sullivan are birders as well as writers, researchers, and organizational administrators, and this makes a big difference.

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Persistence Pays Off For Burrowing Owls

10,000 Birds

In the summer of 2015 our investment paid off. After five years of waiting and watching, we were so elated with this news of a successful breeding at the preserve that we applied for another grant from Audubon California. This property is also a site with vernal pools and uses cattle grazing for vegetation control.

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