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24 Dec 2009, 7:07 am |
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New app links into eBird to let you know where birds are near you
23 Dec 2009, 2:34 pm |
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Rare birds turn up at Legg Lake in So. El Monte
23 Dec 2009, 1:27 pm |
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Proposed solar array in Panoche Valley challenged
23 Dec 2009, 9:41 am |
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Central Coast mourns loss of advocate for the environment
23 Dec 2009, 9:26 am |
Audubon California Interesting new iPhone application links into eBird to let you know where birds are being seen near you.
www.getbirdseye.com
Discover which birds are actually being seen nearby. Get instant access to the local bird life – whether you’re at home or on the road.
Audubon California A Tundra Swan and a Wood Stork in South El Monte? This is the kind of thing that brings out the birders. This kind of story is always cool.
www.latimes.com
The wood stork at Legg Lake has strayed far from its normal range, experts say. (Raul Roa / Glendale News Press / December 17, 2009)
Audubon California Interesting article in the San Jose Mercury News notes environmental opposition to massive solar project in Panoche Valley -- including from two local Audubon chapters. We should note that this is an Audubon Important Bird Area.
www.mercurynews.com
Project proposed for San Benito County would include 1.2 million solar panels spread across an area roughly the size of 3,500 football fields.
Jill If you love our State like I do....please become a friend of Audubon California....
Audubon California This month, Audubon California completed a tidal marsh restoration project in the San Pablo Bay National Widlife Refuge. Lots of great partners on this project, and lots of great benefits for birds.
Audubon California The New York Times weighs in on Dianne Feinstein's legislation to create a million acres of national monuments in the Mojave Desert. The article frames it as being the end of proposals to build solar and wind energy plants on the land.
www.nytimes.com
Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to protect a million acres of the Mojave Desert in California by scuttling planned solar plants and wind farms.
Audubon California Safe harbor agreements are a great way to encourage landowners to support habitat protection. This one stands to help a lot of birds.
www.sacbee.com
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Michael James Berry Will be doing the Ventura, Ca count January 2nd.
Michael James Berry Did the Carpenteria, Ca Count Saturday. Lots or Northern Flickers, Variety of woodpeckers, and Warblers. Then went to the salt marsh to see if we could find a green heron. Spotted a belted kingfisher! That was cool!
Audubon California Got any stories to share from your Christmas Bird Counts so far? We'd love to hear about what you're seeing.
Audubon California If this goes through, we're talking about a million acres of protections. That would be pretty amazing.
Feinstein to introduce legislation to establish 2 national monuments in Mojave Desert -- latimes.com
www.latimes.com
David Myers of the Wildlands Conservancy walks in Sleeping Beauty Valley, part of the proposed Mojave Trails National Monument, which would prohibit development on 941,000 acres of federal land. (Ringo H.W. Chiu / For The Times / December 20, 2009)
Audubon California Catching up on the Christmas Bird Count in Santa Cruz.
www.santacruzsentinel.com
SANTA CRUZ -- With their binoculars focused on a cluster of oak trees, birdwatchers were greeted by a fluttering black-throated gray warbler in Ocean View Park on Saturday during the National Audubon Societys 110th annual Christmas Bird Count.
Graham Chisholm Went out today with friends on the Oakland Xmas Count, what fun seeing seeing old friends and having new friends join us. No rare birds, but had really nice looks at Townsend's Warbler, Cedar Waxwings and a Brown Creeper climbing upside down.
Audubon California Great photos of the Audubon Kern River Preserve after the December snow storm.
Yesterday's snow storm on the Kern River Preserve
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