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Heermann’s Gull: Near Threatened

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At the Northwest corner of San Francisco is Point Lobos. It’s all of the things I learn about different birds from researching to write posts. Here’s one last look at the adult Heermann’s Gull landing on the beach in San Francisco. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBX_tlHySc. v=FUBX_tlHySc.

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Climate Change is Making Birds Bigger

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Or so says a study by San Francisco State researchers using data collected from over forty years of measurements taken during bird banding. Here’s hoping that this means that some birds, at least, might be able to adapt as climate change continues.

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ALF Activists Glue Locks of U Cal Primate Researcher

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From the website : Just after sunrise on Halloween, a sole trick or treater descended on the home of University of California-San Francisco primate vivisector Stephen Lisberger. As Stephen and his wife Chieko slept in San Francisco, tubes of superglue were used to fill his front door locks. Now this war has two sides,"

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At Least Five Dead Whales Around Bay Area

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Researchers say the animals appear to be following abundant swarms of krill - the tiny, shrimp-like creatures that make up whales' favorite food group - right into the path of ship traffic. Tags: california san francisco marine life marine animals whales krill.

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The Traveling Birder

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I am a westerner who has lived in San Francisco and Portland my entire birding life. Although not a birding trip, before we moved from San Francisco to Portland, my wife and I did a long road trip across the United States, covering 12,000 miles and 34 states, from California to Florida to Maine to Montana.

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The Glory Days Of Fall

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I write to you this September from San Francisco, California. On the Farrallon Islands, San Francisco County’s own megararity trap, volunteer researches hope for everything from Red-footed Booby to Golden-cheeked Warbler. Photographed at White Lake, North Dakota. Californian birders live for fall.

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Do The Splits

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As novice birder David Sibley put it a few years ago, “A proposal to split Western Scrub-Jay recently failed an early vote in the checklist committee for want of more research in the contact zone.” This “Sooty” Fox Sparrow was photographed in San Francisco, CA.