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California Condor. Photo: Scott Frier/USFWS
A very helpful bird guide from Daniel Knowleden and the Central Ohio Birders Facebook page.
The Los Angeles Times has a long history of being invested in California Condor recovery efforts. Yesterday's editorial celebtrates Ventana Wildlife Society's milestones in saving this special vulture and Audubon California's own success in getting lead shot banned in California. Read the article here.
The Ninth Annual Galt Winter Bird Festival will be held Jan. 23 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Festival guests will enjoy the beauty and tranquility of the Cosumnes River Preserve and take advantage of the incredible opportunity to catch sightings of waterfowl, shorebirds and wildlife in their winter habitat. Festival headquarters at McCaffrey Middle School -- located at 997 Park Terrace Drive in Galt -- will provide a starting point for exclusive preserve tours, educational presentations, wildlife shows, art displays, wine walk, hometown history and hands-on activities. Check out the website for more information.
Our congratulations to the Buena Vista Audubon Society for finalizing its purchase of 3.5 acres of wetlands adjacent to the Buena Vista Lagoon Ecological Reserve in San Diego County. The Audubon chapter raised more than $1.5 million to finalize the purchase. The chapter is now finalizing plans to restore the land to serve a variety of birds, including the endangered Ridgeway's Rail. Audubon California was able to help this project with funding from the Wimberly Foundation.
A resident near our Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary sent us these photos of a Bald Eagle seen on Richardson Bay (in San Francisco Bay) on Jan 3. Originally spotted by Cindy Nelson, this bird appears to be a 4th-year based on the dark feathers still present on its head. This is a very rare sighting for Richardson Bay. The bird was seen in the vicinity of Strawberry Point.
In his column in the Tampa Bay Times, State Represenative Mark Pafford urges Florida to drop the Northern Mockingbird as its state bird in favor of the Florida Scrub Jay. We have to wonder though, has he actually met a scrub jay? They aren't exactly all sunshine and roses.
Check out this video from the California Rice Commission of birds over rice fields in the Sacramento Valley. Thousands upon thousands of waterfowl are now wintering in the Central Valley, and this captures the magnitude quite well. The folks at the California Rice Commission have told us that every effort was made to ensure that the drone used for this piece did not harm the birds in any way, and that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has approved its release.
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