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Urban Birding in San Diego

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San Diego has a lot going for it. My family visited San Diego every year as part of a Disneyland-SoCal Road trip to escape the rainy Christmases at home near Portland, Oregon. My family visited San Diego every year as part of a Disneyland-SoCal Road trip to escape the rainy Christmases at home near Portland, Oregon.

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Cliff Swallows and Pest Management

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The term “take” is defined as killing a listed species but also includes “harm,” which is defined in regulation as including “significant habitat modification or degradation where it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns, including breeding, feeding, or sheltering 2.

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Stuck in the middle (of the AOU/COS meeting)

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I learned a lot about why Wood Thrushes (like the one Corey photographed above) are less efficient at migration than adults (like human kids, they seem to make more pit stops along the way), and that Dark-eyed Juncos which spend all year in San Diego seem to have undergone a fairly recent genetic shift toward “sedentariness.”

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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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range largely consists of valuable real estate along the Southern California coast and urban development around San Diego and Los Angeles has eliminated much of its habitat. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that the coastal subspecies was actually a subspecies. But its U.S. What was once sage scrub is now suburbs and highways.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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After seeing Rhinoceros Auklets and Xantus’s Murrelets on the first half of Sunday’s San Diego Bird Festival pelagic trip, we reached Mexico’s Islas Cornado (Coronado Islands), four rocky islands off the coast of northern Baja California. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. The proposal from U.S.

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Birding California: A Regional Primer

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Modoc National Wildlife Refuge, CA. Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge offers a fine show of raptors and waterfowl, Modoc National Wildlife Refuge has reliable Trumpeter Swans in winter, and the Warner Mountains are home to Cordilleran Flycatcher in spring and summer. Southern California pelagics (San Diego to Morro Bay).

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Sand Point Family Vineyards: Cabernet Sauvignon (2015 Lodi Appellation)

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I just got back this week from my second-ever birding vacation to California, this time to the three southernmost counties of the state: San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial. One wonders how they ever find the time to make wine!

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