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California Condor. Photo: Scott Frier/USFWS
Scanning for birds on Santa Cruz Island. A large contingent from Audubon California and several other conservation organizations hit Santa Cruz Island over the weekend for the eighth annual Christmas Bird Count on this site. Of course, birders were keen to see the Island Scrub Jay, which is not only endemnic to California -- but it also lives only on the island.
An ambitious solar energy project that made news last year when it was discovered that its new technology might actually be igniting birds in mid-air now seems to be falling short of its goals for energy production, prompting fears that it may default on contracts with electricity utilities.
Here's a vote you can really get behind. Voting continues for Audubon California's 2015 Bird of the Year. Vote as many times as you like before Dec. 20.
Starr Ranch Sanctuary manager Pete DeSimone rescued this Sharp-shinned Hawk from a jacuzzi in the nearby community of Coto de Caza. The bird was taken to the vet and appears to be on the mend. We're guessing the experience wasn't as relaxing as promised.
Yesterday our Working Lands Program toured Staten Island and watched Sandhill Cranes using fields that test different compatible agriculture practices.
Audubon California Executive Director Brigid McCormack writes in the Desert Sun that if you want a model for fixing the Salton Sea, you only have to look 300 miles north to Owens Lake, where people came together to create solutions to similar problems.
"Receding waters letting loose clouds of toxic dust. Migratory birds struggling to hang on. Officials hamstrung by financial and political constraints. Frustration and hopelessness about the future.
Those phrases may aptly capture the building crisis at the Salton Sea, but they’re actually describing the situation at Owens Lake, about 300 miles to the north, prior to 2000.
The seemingly intractable problems at Owens Lake were brought under control by a coalition of environmental groups, farmers, water districts, tribes and others who hammered out a consensus solution providing for the needs of public health and wildlife. The success at Owens Lake offers hope for the Salton Sea."
Our own Andrea Jones caught this fun footage of Marbled Godwits and Sanderlings on the beach at the Point Reyes National Seashore this past weekend.
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