Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Move over, birds. There is another flying – albeit more elusive– species drawing summer crowds. Warmer weather and longer twilights make it ideal to watch some of the coolest little critters in the Bay Area — bats! Here are the facts. There are 24 species of bats in California and they’ve nudged their way into…
No way! This guy went out to photograph birds off the coast of San Luis Obispo, and check out the photographs he came back with. Proving that the krill bonanza along the Pacific Coast this year must be heaven for humpbacks and other whales [Huffington Post] Gov. Jerry Brown is joining business groups — including…
Time for Monday’s News Digest West Nile-carrying mosquitoes are beginning to swarm. Conta Costa and Santa Clara Counties have begun fogging several cities with pyrethrin and are treating water in catch basins under sidewalk storm drains. The potential deadly disease is spread through mosquitoes, with birds as the incubator, before reaching humans. A Contra Costa…
Right after completing his undergraduate degree in biological sciences at UC Davis, Fresno-born Mike Lynes went to work out in the field. But after working as a scientist for several years, he realized that his skills and interests lay in the area of law. So he went back to school to study law at UC…
Nice weekend! Here’s your Friday news digest. As climate change ramps up, scientists are finding it’s not just temperature that impacts where a species moves. Precipitation is also important, and a species can be torn asunder with these two pressures, according to a UC Berkeley study of changes in bird ranges in Lassen Volcanic, Yosemite,…
The California quail is the inspiration for a San Francisco restaurant that just made America’s top new eating house — the whimsically named State Bird Provisions. Fortunately, the official state bird is not actually on the menu because it numbers fewer than a dozen individuals in San Francisco today, given the loss of brush habitat…
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