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California Condor. Photo: Scott Frier/USFWS
Tricolored Blackbirds have begun nesting and our biologists are out in the field making sure these rare birds have a chance to survive. Field Technician Kim Sawyer shot this short video at BLM's Atwell Island just a few days ago. If you would like to help us save this great California birds, please consider making a donation.
We're greatly pleased to enter into a new year of Egret Wine's sponsorship of Audubon California. It's been a great relationship. To honor the occasion, the winery sent us this photo of a beautiful bud break in Sonoma at the family estate vineyard of Egret wines, marking the Spring launch of 2018 vintage.
Clearly, the Desert Sun has had it with the state's inability to get projects moving at the Salton Sea:
This harkens to the years of “one more study is needed” that we’d wearily grown accustomed to as we witnessed the sea’s long decline, which shifted into overdrive with the end of Colorado River water inflows at the close of 2017.
Still, it is shocking to hear this type of refrain so shortly after the state finally stepped up with its plan to fulfill its commitment to sea restoration under the 2003 Quantification Settlement Agreement that has shifted the water that had been replenishing the sea to thirsty urban customers.
Get to work, folks. Promises were made and the state cannot let the now more-rapidly receding sea spiral into an ecological and environmental disaster which will have effects far beyond its own shores.
Interesting article looks at recent study attempting to identify why Surf Scoters and other waterbirds in San Francisco Bay are dwinding?
Audubon Calfornia's Frank Ruiz talks about the need for the everyone to pull together to avert an ecological crisis at the Salton Sea -- to protect people and birds at the Salton Sea. Thanks to the Walton Family Foundation for putting this video together. Learn more about our work at the Salton Sea.
Telling the story of how a community and Audubon came together to save a precious corner of San Francisco Bay six decades ago, Catalina Lane and Annika Jackson recently won first prize at the IOFF International Student Film Competition with their video, "1958." The two are participants in the Audubon Youth Leader program at the Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary.
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