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Bay Nature produces several kinds of videos and you can see them all here. Broadcast on Northern California public TV stations, our Bay Nature on the Air segments showcase the natural diversity of local ecosystems and natural attractions. You'll also find videos of our naturalist-guided hikes and audio slideshows that inform you about Bay Area parks and wildlife.
San Francisco Animal Care and Control
After "not getting the message" about how to behave around coyotes, San Francisco Animal Care and Control released this video of an off-leash rottweiler confronting coyotes in Golden Gate Park. The city has closed off sections of trails this year in an effort to avoid confrontation with coyotes during pup season, when they are protecting their dens.
Henry Tenenbaum
Writer Joan Hamilton spoke with interviewer Henry Tenenbaum on KRON4 Sunday, May 6 about the state parks closures slated for July. Hamilton is the author of Bay Nature's April 2012 special coverage: The Parks and the People: Keeping State Parks Alive.
Marine Mammal Center
A month after he was found malnourished and disoriented in the middle of a dangerous ferry commuter crossing, Al Catraz and his pinneped friend PupTart were released into coastal waters near the Marine Mammal Center in Marin, where they were in rehab. The two look very happy to be "home."
By sfbaynps
The endangered Mission Blue Butterfly is beginning to thrive in new areas of San Francisco, including Twin Peaks where restoration efforts are underway to bring the dazzling lepidoptera from San Bruno Mountain.
By Lindsay Wildlife Museum
As we reported earlier, a golden eagle recently set to the skies over Las Trampas Regional Wilderness near San Ramon. For the last six months, it was in recovery at two area wildlife rehab centers for a fractured wing, likely the result of a collision with a car.
reddingnews
The lone, male wolf that's been making its mark on California history as the first to show in 88 years has been back and forth between Oregon and the Golden State. This is the only known video footage of 2 1/2-year-old OR7, so named because he's the seventh radio-collared wolf in Oregon.
Save the Bay
Each year, Bay Area residents discard the equivalent of 10,000 kitchen bags of trash into the San Francisco Bay. What would our Bay and beaches look like if we lose site of efforts to stem the tide of trash? Save the Bay presents the horror of horrors scenario.
National Geographic WILD
And you thought birding was for introverted, solitary types. The premier of "Aerial Assassins" on Friday night on National Geographic WILD TV is an adrenaline-spiked adventure with the world's hottest birder at the helm. James Currie tracks Harris' Hawkes through the Sonoran Desert in the American Southwest. We'll leave it to you to decide whether this makes birding look like something your 15-year-old would get psyched about, or if it's just too hyped.
By the San Francisco Bay Area Network
Coho salmon once numbered in the tens of thousands but estimates now put them at fewer than 500. Dry weather this winter has been especially hard on the salmon, which are stuck in risky areas during their spawning because they can't reach further upstream. Fishery Biologist Mike Reichmuth and Intern Ben Atencio discuss endangered coho salmon and how they are monitored in the Bay Area National Parks.
Video by Otters Don't Flush
Sea otters spend most of their lives in the water, but come on shore to rest. This one probably spent a long morning foraging for food, likely their favorite prey -- sea urchins. Sea otters are the smallest marine mammal and a threatened species. There are about 2,700 left on the California coast, so it's a real treat to come across one.
Video by siddsvids
Birders are flocking in from all over the country to view a male falcated duck far away from his Asian homeland.
Video uploaded by tuantube on YouTube.
A Fitzgerald Marine Reserve cephalopod makes its way from one tide pool to another in this unusual daytime video. The nocturnal animal is likely looking for dinner, says an expert.
produced by Rick Bacigalupi, with production assistance from Daniel Okamura
Take a trip to the world-famous Marin Headlands, and back in time a few many million years, with Doris Sloan, the geologist who wrote the book on Bay Area geology and has taught thousands about the rocks beneath our feet.
produced by Rick Bacigalupi
Join us for a tour of Bayer Farm, a small community farm in the Roseland neighborhood of Santa Rosa, CA. This farm was one of the three we featured in our 2011 special on Bay Area Food Landscapes.
Produced by Rick Bacigalupi, with production assistance by Leo Hughet
The Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) purchased Rancho Corral de Tierra on Montara Mountain to protect it from development. Now it's set to become the newest part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Public access is still a ways off, but Paul Ringgold of POST took a group of Bay Nature Publisher's Circle members for a hike there.
By Rick Bacigalupi, with production assistance by Daniel Okamura.
The Bay Area's most enthusiastic lepidopterist, Liam O'Brien, takes us on a tour of Huckleberry Preserve in the Oakland hills. With cold keeping the butterflies in hiding, O'Brien provides a wonderful short course on butterflies and moths.
Produced by Rick Bacigalupi, with production assistance from Daniel Okamura
Jepson Prairie, in Solano County, is home to vernal pools -- and otherworldly invertebrates that look a bit like tiny trilobytes or horseshoe crabs!
Produced by Rick Bacigalupi, with production assistance from Daniel Okamura
Follow along on a docent-led walk among the wildflowers of Solano County's Jepson Prairie, one of the best remaining examples of vernal pool habitats, remarkable seasonal wetlands that once dotted the Central Valley.
Produced by Rick Bacigalupi, with production assistance from Daniel Okamura and Steven Martin
Naturalist Michael Ellis says western rattlesnakes eat lots of rodents and they're just plain cool! Rattlesnakes are the only snakes in the world that have a mechanism for warning you that they are nearby. How's that for manners? Return the favor by leaving snakes alone when you see them on the trail.
Produced by Rick Bacigalupi, with production assistance from Daniel Okamura
Western fence lizards are a common sight in Bay Area parks on sunny days. "When you see them," says naturalist Michael Ellis, "you should feel good, because if there's fence lizards, that's a good place to be."
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