Lake Merced Birds: A Lone Wrentit
May 14, 2013 by Dan Rademacher
Every so often I see a note from a local birder or amateur botanist that reminds me that there’s a …
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A Warbler Comes to West Berkeley
April 08, 2013 by David Loeb
Last winter I noticed a different bird in the bare branches of the London plane trees outside the office. A yellow-rumped warbler. Not an uncommon bird, yet not one I would expect to see next to a cement plant.
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Remembering Rich Stallcup
April 01, 2013 by Bay Nature Staff
In December 2012, the Bay Area, and the world, lost one of its most eloquent spokespeople for and about birds. …
How do you make a teeny hummingbird chick comfy?
March 28, 2013 by Constance Taylor
Imagine fitting your little eggs inside a nest the size of a golf ball? Hummingbirds are back, and raising the next generation.
A “Big Birder” on Sonoma Mountain
March 25, 2013 by Jonah Raskin
He’s big, he’s tall and he’s an obsessive birder. WhyTed Eliot can’t get birds out of his head.
The Smallest Sandpipers
January 15, 2013 by Joe Eaton
Our two local sandpipers are cute as buttons, hard to tell apart, and eat primordial ooze. What’s not to love?
New records set in Bay Area’s Christmas bird counts
January 07, 2013 by Alison Hawkes
The annual Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count, the longest running citizen science survey in the world, has finished up in the Bay Area with some important findings.
Spotlight on San Luis National Wildlife Refuge
January 01, 2013 by Alison Hawkes
If you find yourself headed through the Central Valley at this time of the year, a nice pit stop off Highway 5 is the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge.
Virginia rail peeks through reeds at Lake Merced
December 31, 2012 by Alison Hawkes
A Virginia rail made a surprise year-end appearance at Lake Merced in San Francisco.
At Oakland’s Christmas Bird Count, 177 species in 177-square miles
December 19, 2012 by Ilana DeBare via Berkeleyside
177 species was a normal year’s count at Audubon Society’s 2012 Christmas Bird Count in Oakland. But there were nevertheless some pleasant surprises: hermit warblers, a snow goose and a Ross’s goose.
