In the Forests Around Mount Tam, The Southern Range of Northern Spotted Owls
The luxuriant forests of Upper Lagunitas Creek, Phoenix Lake, and Bolinas Ridge are critical sanctuary for the northern spotted owl.
Wildlife
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.
Hunt for San Francisco Bay Shark Killer Zeroes in on a Suspect
A protozoan pathogen appears to have killed thousands of sharks, rays and fish in the San Francisco Bay this spring.
Ask the Naturalist: Can Hummingbirds Taste Their Food?
What does a hummingbird taste in a flower?
Naturalist’s Notebook: Illustrated Squirrels of the Bay Area
Follow the "kuks" and "quaaas" to find marauding hawks or foxes.
Meet the Bay Area’s Migrating Dragonflies
Most of the things flying over your head aren't birds. Meet some of the large insects that propel themselves around the world and stop in Northern California.
Two Almost Identical Lupines Live in the Same Place. One is Rare, One Not. Why?
A new journal article tries to answer an ecological mystery at Point Reyes.
The Open Ocean is the Last Frontier In Birding
Living tens, hundreds, even thousands of miles offshore, pelagic seabirds are some of the least understood and most threatened avian species in the world.
Sharks Are Dying By the Hundreds in San Francisco Bay
Leopard sharks and bat rays are dying by the hundreds and washing ashore all around the Bay. A pathologist at the California Department Fish and Wildlife thinks he may know...
