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What do you want to know about the natural world? Thanks to donations from readers like you, Bay Nature has teamed up with the naturalists at the California Center for Natural History to answer your questions about the world every other Tuesday. Some questions find their way to naturalist Michael Ellis, whose answers appear in our quarterly print magazine. Email us your questions at atn@baynature.org!
Where Do Shorebirds Sleep at Night?
Where do shorebirds sleep? Hint: it’s not always at night.
How Vulnerable Are Other Parts Of The Bay Area To Wildfires?
How vulnerable are we to fire and what we can do about it? Fire ecologist Sasha Berleman answers.
What Is This Moth That’s Almost as Big as a Hummingbird?
Moths often get sidelined as the country cousins of butterflies. But they have their own beauty and utility as some of the best pollinators around.
Why Did I Hear Popcorn Sounds In the Recent Extreme Heat Wave?
When temperatures crank up, an unusual ecological adaptation begins to play out among our native Monterey pine. We explain why in our latest installment of our reader-funded Ask The Naturalist column.
Ask the Naturalist: What Do Hummingbirds Taste?
How do hummingbirds experience sugar?
Ask The Naturalist: Why Are There So Many Birds On the Beach At One Time?
Head to the beach on one of these late summer days and you’re liable to come across a wonderful spectacle of nature: the feeding frenzy.
Ask the Naturalist: Where Can I Find Old Growth Redwoods in the Bay Area?
Crowded Muir Woods isn’t the only place in the Bay Area to wander amongst old-growth redwoods.
Ask the Naturalist: How Does a Spider Make Silk?
How spiders create protein-rich liquid and turn it into silk.
Ask the Naturalist: Can Hummingbirds Taste Their Food?
What does a hummingbird taste in a flower?