Acorn Woodpecker Female Dr. Walt Koenig was a Research Zoologist at Hastings Reservation, a field station located in the upper Carmel Valley run by the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, from 1982 to 2008. He subsequently was a Senior Scientist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York, from 2008 to […]
Vermillion Flycatcher Please join our webmaster as he highlights some of his favorite bird photos from the last fifteen years. Don’t be surprised if there may be a few short videos as well. This is the second part of his presentation.
Tricolored Blackbird by David Bogener This month Dan Airola will provide recent status information on the Tricolored Blackbird and Yellow-billed Magpie, two Central Valley species that have declined substantially in recent years. Blackbird population loss has resulted from habitat loss, nest destruction during agricultural harvest, and loss of insect prey due to insecticide use. The […]
Audubon launched its Conservation Ranching program (ACR) here in California in 2019. Matt Allshouse of Audubon California will present this program which is designed to stem the conversion of grassland ecosystems and improve the ecological functions of rangelands by partnering with ranchers to transition to more regenerative grazing approaches via a ranch certification program. This presentation […]
Join us on Zoom for Steve Hampton's timely presentation about birds and climate change: the changes that are already happening, with a special focus on Northern California. Birds are responding to climate change, and have been since the mid-1980s. It has only become clear recently. What started as a little bump in the data is […]
Morgan Tingley, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA Fire is a critical and natural part of many ecosystems, but the nature of fire is rapidly shifting due to climate change. From a biological perspective, fire is a regular disturbance that affects the distribution and abundance […]
