Give a nesting bird a home
January 23, 2013 by Alison Hawkes
Nesting birds are coming back to town. Now’s your chance to be a bird box landlord.
Latest from nesting birds
Hungry Owl Project
July 20, 2012 by Bay Nature
Dedicated to the conservation of cavity nesting birds through education and by providing nesting boxes for owls, bats and bluebirds.
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Of Mice and Birds at the Farallones
May 26, 2011 by Juliet Grable
U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials extended to June 10 the deadline for accepting public comments on a controversial proposal to eradicate nonnative house mice on the Southeast Farallon Islands. Opponents cite concerns that the poisons will endanger a range of wildlife on or near the islands, while proponents say the project will help threatened seabirds and the island ecosystem.
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Citizen Scientists Keep Tabs on Egrets
May 04, 2011 by Juliet Grable
We mostly see egrets and herons standing silently in shallow wetlands, on the hunt. But a group of dedicated citizen scientists makes a point to watch them in their nesting colonies, sometimes in seemingly unlikely spots. Join us on a trip to a heronry near Cordelia.
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Big Birds in the Big City
February 09, 2011 by Beth Rodio
When not visiting her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, to “perfect her accent,” Nancy DeStefanis is helping kids discover nature through San Francisco Nature Education, the grassroots environmental education organization she founded in 2000. Many programs center around the herons and egrets that nest at Stow Lake, in Golden Gate Park.
