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Urban Birding in San Diego

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San Diego has a lot going for it. My family visited San Diego every year as part of a Disneyland-SoCal Road trip to escape the rainy Christmases at home near Portland, Oregon. My family visited San Diego every year as part of a Disneyland-SoCal Road trip to escape the rainy Christmases at home near Portland, Oregon.

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San Diego Pelagic

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In August, we took a family trip to beautiful San Diego, seeing SeaWorld , LegoLand , and the San Diego Zoo. My recollection of prior trips is that we used relatively small fishing boats and had 20-25 birders, plus the leaders. Or, because it is San Diego, getting away from the sun.

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Blakiston’s Fish Owl on Hokkaido

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When Jonathan Slaght did his research on Blakiston’s Fish Owl in Russia’s Far East – which he describes in his excellent book “Owls of the Eastern Ice” – he had to cope not only with extreme cold but also with rather bad music: “Katkov filled our commutes with loud music. Sitting in a heated(!)

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One Good Turn

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Jonathan is originally from San Blas on Mexico’s west coast, a birder’s paradise I have yet to visit. But the past several years he has worked on several projects in Ensenada, just south of San Diego. This Pied-billed Grebe begged the question, does the very early Grebe get the very tiny fish?

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This Week in Bird(ing) News: The Good, the Bad, and the Huh?

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Sea World San Diego just welcomed the world’s first “test-tube” penguin. Friends don’t let Ospreys build nests with fishing lines or baling twine. Still craving more penguin news? Can prairie grass curb bird strikes? Dayton International Airport in Ohio aims to find out.

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Meet The Gray Thrasher

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My first experience with this bird was near the fishing village of San Evaristo, on the Sea of Cortez, 50 miles north of La Paz, Mexico. As of a few months ago, there was a sighting of a meransi across the US/Mexico border and up into the San Diego area. This is over 100 miles from its northern most previous sighting.

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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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range largely consists of valuable real estate along the Southern California coast and urban development around San Diego and Los Angeles has eliminated much of its habitat. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that the coastal subspecies was actually a subspecies. But its U.S. What was once sage scrub is now suburbs and highways.