Here’s the tally of birds from Tecolote Canyon yesterday. Tecolote Canyon Natural Park, San Diego, US-CA Jul 19, 2014 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM Comments: Palomar Audubon Society/20 attendees 32 species (+3 other taxa) hawk sp. Western Gull Eurasian Collared-Dove … Continue reading →
AUDUBON CALIFORNIA NEWS July 2014ESA protections should be upheld for CA Gnatcatcher Audubon California is opposing the latest attempt by southern California developers to remove the California Gnatcatcher from protection under the Endangered Species Act. The delisting petition relies on … Continue reading →
Posted by Steve Boyes of National Geographic Expeditions in Explorers Journal on July 17, 2014 Sunda frogmouths prefer the subtropical or tropical moist lowland, mangrove, montane forests in Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia. (Syahputra Putra) Tricolored herons are resident breeders from the Gulf states of the USA and … Continue reading →
Birders, Here is one part of the ebird reports I made today. Great day, not to be duplicated anytime soon. Sonia may share some video of the feeding frenzy. Sally Sanderson Subject: eBird Report – Tijuana River mouth, … Continue reading →
Hi Friends, Yesterday, July 5, sixteen birders walked around Lake Murray on a very warm holiday Saturday morning. We checked out the north side of the lake as well as the southern Kiowa Drive area. I think everybody had a … Continue reading →
Posted by Steve Boyes of National Geographic Expeditions in Explorers Journal on June 30, 2014 White-faced ducks breed in sub-Saharan Africa and much of S America. The dynamic behind this disjunct distribution are unclear. (Rodnick Clifton Biljon) Kalij pheasants are found in forests and thickets in the … Continue reading →
Posted by Steve Boyes of National Geographic Expeditions in Explorers Journal on July 2, 2014 Oriental magpie-robins are distributed across most of the Indian Subcontinent and parts of SE Asia, preferring urban gardens and forests. (Arindam Saha) Blue-throated barbets are a regular sighting across the Indian Subcontinent … Continue reading →
Hi Everyone, Yesterday, June 28, seventeen birders met up at Palomar Mountain State Park for our last PAS mountain field trip for 2014. The weather was perfect and we all had a great time. We found 43 bird species. Lot’s … Continue reading →
June 18, 2014 UC Davis staff researcher Robert Meese, who coordinated the 2014 Tricolored Blackbird Statewide Survey, releases a banded male tricolored blackbird. (Sylvia Wright/photo) The population of California’s iconic tricolored blackbird has suffered a dramatic decline in the past … Continue reading →
Birders, It was another beautiful day in the mountains of San Diego. During lunch at the Desert View picnic area we talked of the California Condor that had wondered over the Lagunas a few years ago from the Mexican highlands … Continue reading →