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.
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.
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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. Yea, I’m bad!
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. She will begin breeding in April. The male is the only hummingbird in North America with a rufous back.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2011
I spent this past weekend at the coast, travelling to Arcata for a Northern California Audubon Council meeting hosted by the Redwood Region Audubon Society. They are a colonial breeder, nesting only in western Alaska, on a narrow band of coastal sedge meadows 2. Of course, all birds in these photos are in non-breeding plumage.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
The Mourning Dove is a prolific breeder. Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round. population has been estimated to be approximately 350 million 2.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2022
we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse. I have friends who talk nostalgically of birding trips with the Lane’s Guides to Southeast Arizona, or Southern California (there were eight guides in all, some co-written or updated by other birders, notably Henry Holt).
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