Critter News

OCTOBER 10, 2010

A bountiful crop of krill and busy shipping lanes are to blame for a rash of dead whales that have surfaced around the Bay Area within a few short months, according to scientists. Last year's krill population was also large, but it did not bring the same cluster of whale deaths.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Before I moved north to Portland, I lived in San Francisco. Bonus : A couple of years earlier, a blue whale washed up several miles south of Half Moon Bay, at Bean Hollow State Beach. Patch birding is rewarding because the birds become familiar, as do the changes across the seasons. There is satisfaction in the everyday.

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APRIL 7, 2015

We rented a car and drove to Point Reyes from San Francisco early on a Saturday morning, stopping for a quick detour at Muir Woods (because who wouldn’t stop there?). Migrating Gray Whales. We headed into Point Reyes with vague plans to meet up with one of my college buddies, which turned out to be a big mistake.

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MAY 9, 2017

For example, although not far from some of the nation’s priciest real estate in San Francisco, there are no proposals to sell the Farallones to the state of California. However, seabirds tend to breed on remote islands that are not subject to the economic conflicts that exist for other habitats.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

I’ve been on a whale-watching trip in Orange County , twice gone out to Santa Cruz Island , and even visited Protection Island off the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. That would be the Northern Gannet that has made the rocky coast near San Francisco its home for the last four years. I’m bad at whales.).

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