10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

More than 99% of the population of Tricolored Blackbirds ( Agelaius tricolor ) live within the state of California and form the largest colonies of any North American passerine bird 1. A summary of the 2013 California statewide reportstates: The 2014 Statewide Survey was held from April 18-20, 2014. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rwi0SF8r8o.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

As of 27 August 2013 the California Bird Records Committee has voted to add the introduced Nutmeg Mannikin to the state checklist. Or, as Seagull Steve puts it : The dreaded Nutmeg Mannikin has been added to California’s official state list by the California Bird Records Committee (aka Bird Police).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The coastal subspecies of California Gnatcatcher ( Polioptila californica californica ) can be found in sage scrub that was once abundant from Ventura County to northern Baja California. Because the coastal California Gnatcatcher lives on such valuable land, its “threatened” status creates economic conflicts. But its U.S.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The top photo shows a first winter California Gull ( Larus californicus ) on the right and a non-breeding adult on the left. Below is the same first winter California Gull with the smaller non-breeding adult Ring-billed Gull ( Larus delawarensis ) on the left. Finally, here are a couple of photos of the adult California Gull.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

In October of 2012, the Institute for Bird Populations released “ A Conservation Strategy for the Black-Backed Woodpecker in California 3.” ” The purpose of this Conservation Strategy is to provide a roadmap for conserving Black-backed Woodpeckers in California through informed management. Siegel and, D. Version 1.0.

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Woodpeckers California South Dakota Chad 169

AVMA News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The effort comes thanks to a task force that has combined expertise from AVMA staff members and librarians from Cornell University, Texas Tech University, the University of California, Davis, and the University of Pennsylvania.

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AVMA News

AUGUST 20, 2024

Janis Shinkawa, a multi-practice owner in Ventura, California, was recently installed as chair of the National Association of Women Business Owners’ board of directors. The organization has been advocating for and training women entrepreneurs since 1975.

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AVMA News

JUNE 17, 2024

Most recently, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced May 7 that it had been detected in the state’s deer and elk.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

The reserve at San Joaquin had already been very generous to me, so I was delighted to add to my California list in such style. New to California, indeed new to my North America list, was a Red-necked Phalarope , Phalaropus lobatus. The post A couple of California firsts. But even better was to come.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Still in California! And if you recall my previous post, I couldn’t shut up about how much I loved the Sierras of California:) So, yeah. And yet ANOTHER couple of days that I can dedicate for chasing birds around the Golden State. You can guess whereabouts I went.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 8, 2015

SeaWorld San Antonio is thrilled to announce the arrival of seven California sea lion pups born in June. Park guests … Continue reading → The post Cute California sea lion pups appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. They are adorable, and full of energy!

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Sea Lions Lions San Antonio California 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2021

Corey is loving the California birds but his Best Bird of the Weekend was a bird that doesn’t really belong in southern California. He chased a Ruff on the Santa Ana River in Anaheim and such a cool vagrant automatically beat out other great birds like California Gnatcatcher to take his top spot for the weekend. Good times!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2018

According to Macauley Library’s migration map the overwhelming breeding activity for this species occurs north of the state of California. I guess we will find out as the eBird maps change in the future, but until then, here is another photo of one of the males hanging out here in Northern California.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2021

In October of 2017, I took what was my first trip to California as a birder. We’d arrived in San Francisco just in time for the very beginning of the record-breaking 2017 Northern California wildfires. The view of Tomales Bay from the picnic tables at Hog Island Oyster Company in Marshall, California.

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San Francisco 2020 California Blackbirds 220

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2024

On Tuesday, my wife and I travelled 1750 miles (2,800 km) from our home of thirty years in Morelia, to the region in which I grew up, the San Mateo Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. 11 were new for my California lifelist. Two other species also warmed my California-boy heart. But will I bird?

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San Francisco California Woodpeckers Turkey 194

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2021

I spent Saturday recovering from my red eye back from California but I did get out to coastal Queens on Sunday morning, though I didn’t see much. Fortunately, we have an expansive view of weekends here at 10,000 Birds so I can choose one of the birds I saw in California on Friday before I flew out as my Best Bird of the Weekend.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Alexander Brown , a California label whose proprietor is the country musician Zac Brown. Their Cabernet Sauvignon sources grapes from coastal vineyards in Northern California. The deadly prowess with which their resident Barn Owls hunt rodents allows Z. Alexander Brown to avoid environmentally unsound pest control measures.

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Barn Owls 2017 Rodents Owls 225

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2024

While in California on this trip, I saw 75 species. Of the 112 species on my current California life list, 59 are also common around Morelia. In fact, those 35 species I mentioned, only the Cooper’s Hawk and Warbling Vireo summer in California and winter in the highlands of central Mexico. Please let it be so.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. wrote Veronica in California. “I

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2013

All photos by Keiller Kyle, courtesy of Audubon California. After all, there are only a few hundred thousand left of these birds to gaze at, in a range that’s based mainly in California. federal level, and a Species of Special Concern in California. (For For a birder, a sighting of a Tricolored Blackbird is a treat.

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Blackbirds California Cattle Eggs 183

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2021

In the end, Oregonian vineyards marketed their wines as pinot gris, while south of the border in California, labels tended prefer the Italian pinot grigio. Interestingly, now that pinot gris-pinot grigio has spread to South America, Australia, and South America, among other places, it’s still only the Germans who call the grape Grauburgunder.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2024

Back when I was a kid growing up in California’s San Mateo County in the 60s and 70s, my family would occasionally drive 45 minutes west and south to Bean Hollow State Beach. California Gulls are also large, but have somewhat lighter wings with barely noticeable mirrors. The much rarer Glaucous-winged Gulls (lifer!)

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Though we have already covered the addition of the Nutmeg Mannikin to the official California state checklist we neglected to let you know that the ABA Checklist Committee quickly followed suit. This had bad results for Adolf Hitler, as the video above proves. Birding listing video'

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Neglecting California Birds 209

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

California is big. I only had a few days in California while visiting my brother at Berkeley, but we couldn’t pass up on the opportunity to visit one of the most famous birding sites in the country: Point Reyes National Seashore. Trips Birding California lighthouse point reyes' Migrating Gray Whales.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

California Towhee attacking its reflection in glass. Delivered to Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach, California, also a registered non-profit. Check out her site for more remarkable photographs. Banner photo of distressed but fully flighted Sanderling. Oiled Western Gull after the Cosco Busan oil spill.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

I followed this California endemic , from its call, to an oak tree near the garden. I certainly enjoy hearing that raspy call and watching this California native doing his or her thing in my very own yard. The adult female, seen here at the nest cavity a few years ago, has no red at all. But that’s OK.

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Woodpeckers California Species Birds 190

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I spotted this male recently in a friend’s yard (click on photos for full sized images) … along with several Steller’s Jays ( Cyanocitta stelleri) … Golden-crowned Sparrows ( Zonotrichia atricapilla ) … and a covey of California Quail ( Callipepla californica ). www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuL885n0z8Y.

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Chipmunks North America California Sparrows 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2013

Clapper Rails , as currently defined by the AOU, occur along the coasts of North and South America and Caribbean islands, and inland in southern California and Arizona. In California and Arizona, however, Clapper Rails are brightly colored and occur in both salt and freshwater environments.

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Species Cuba North America Louisiana 212

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2021

Corey is enjoying life visiting relatives in southern California and has seen a bunch of birds he hasn’t seen awhile. I added yet another new Monroe County bird in the form of a Stilt Sandpiper this weekend, which is the only way this species earns my Best Bird honors.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2014

Activists and environmental groups went into overdrive, and in March 2014 the State of California approved a ban on the sale of the worst types of anti-coagulants.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I spent some time with fellow Audubon members on the Northern California coast last weekend where we were treated with some great views of a first winter Mew Gull ( Larus canus ), commonly known as the Common Gull in Eurasia. Click on photos for full sized images. A few Heermann’s Gulls flew in later.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2012

It seems likely that the squirrels we saw are of the nominate subspecies, seeing as Merriam described the species from a specimen taken in Riverside County, California, not far from Joshua Tree National Park.* The other subspecies range from the southern end of Baja California north into Idaho and Oregon but never east of the Colorado River.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

Leaving aside the fact that an urban park in San Diego is anything resembling an “natural” environment in the first place (though there were Wrentits, a California near-endemic, around). And why not make a trip, even if it’s undeniably less exciting than a California Thrasher or a Heerman’s Gull.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

“The young ones are incredibly curious and playful,” says Monte Merrick, the co-Director of Bird Ally X in Arcata, California, which is almost to the border of Oregon. Fisherman along California’s Redwood Coast are supposed to use fish-cleaning stations, where they clean their catch on large tables and place the rest in large containers.

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Pelicans Fish California Massachusetts 198

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2021

One, the Steller’s Jay , was already an old friend — from my California youth — when I saw it there in 2014. Like many birds, this sea-level bird in California is a very high-altitude bird down here. In our coastal California garden, the Chestnut-backed Chickadee was a regular visitor.

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California 2014 Mexico Rights 182

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2015

They nest on large inland lakes in western North America and migrate to the Pacific coast in winter, however they maintain local populations year-round in California. Here in Northern California, Clear Lake is one of the four lakes that support 76% of the total number of nesting grebes in the state 1. What a great bird! v=ZbRrxw-H6xA.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2022

My recent brief trip to California made this strategy especially easy. First, California is two time zones further west, so I was able to get out the door at 8 a.m. We were going to get together with my niece on our last evening in California, but she cancelled. California is weird. San Mateo time).

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