Perhaps the stupidest article ever written about birds

Wow, just wow. This article about raptors in the Indiana Gazette is probably the least informed article ever written about birds. Seriously.

Show your support for Measure AA in the Bay Area

American Avocets dig Measure AA, because it will raise $500 million for much-needed wetlands restoration in San Francisco Bay. The ballot measure will appear on the June 7 ballot in 9 Bay Area counties, including Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma and the City and County of San Francisco. Learn more about the measure here. And please show your support.

California Fish and Game Commission gets a new executive director

Valerie Termini comes from the California Ocean Protection Council staff, and will be the Fish and Game Commissions first female executive director in its history.

Sacramento Bee opinion piece: Fish win, birds lose in Klamath agreements

Jane Braxton Little spoke with our Mike Lynes about Audubon California's continued to fight to secure water for birds at the  Klamath Basin Wildlife Refuge complex, in light of the recent agreement to remove the Klamath Dam:

Fish gotta swim. Birds gotta fly.

Most of us support their survival in equal measures. So, no doubt, do the conservation groups that were part of two recently approved deals to remove four dams and restore more than 400 miles of habitat along the Klamath River.

But in the settlements signed last month, fish trump birds. Both the pact to remove the dams and one to protect Klamath Basin farmers snub the wildlife refuges that provide habitat for 80 percent of the waterfowl along the Pacific Flyway.

The agreements, which cap decades of often acrimonious efforts to restore the iconic river, leave the 310-square-mile Klamath Basin Wildlife Refuge complex high and dry. While the Klamath agreements offer the best hope for the survival of endangered salmon, they offer nothing for the refuges already chronically shorted on water supplies.

“They’ve always been treated as second-class recipients of water,” said Mike Lynes, Audubon California’s director of public policy.

Read the entire opinion piece here.