10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2024
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.
10,000 Birds
JULY 30, 2014
Modoc National Wildlife Refuge, CA. Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge offers a fine show of raptors and waterfowl, Modoc National Wildlife Refuge has reliable Trumpeter Swans in winter, and the Warner Mountains are home to Cordilleran Flycatcher in spring and summer. Southern California pelagics (San Diego to Morro Bay).
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2018
I just got back this week from my second-ever birding vacation to California, this time to the three southernmost counties of the state: San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial. One wonders how they ever find the time to make wine!
Critter News
FEBRUARY 5, 2011
San Antonio Zoo (Texas) Edmonton Valley Zoo (Canada), Buttonwood Park Zoo (Mass.), Honolulu Zoo (Hawaii), Wildlife Safari (Ore.), San Diego Zoo Safari Park (Calif.) Central Florida Zoo (Fla.), Niabi Zoo (Ill.), Topeka Zoo (Kan.), York's Wild Kingdom Zoo (Maine) tied with Southwick's Zoo (Mass.),
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
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.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2012
The term “take” is defined as killing a listed species but also includes “harm,” which is defined in regulation as including “significant habitat modification or degradation where it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns, including breeding, feeding, or sheltering 2.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2013
I learned a lot about why Wood Thrushes (like the one Corey photographed above) are less efficient at migration than adults (like human kids, they seem to make more pit stops along the way), and that Dark-eyed Juncos which spend all year in San Diego seem to have undergone a fairly recent genetic shift toward “sedentariness.”
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