A new blog post by Urban Carnivores reports on the status of a colllared mountain lion, P22, that researchers have been following for more than a year in the wilds of Griffith Park. The ultimate takeaway from the post is that “P22 continues to exhibit natural behavior (e.g., avoiding people) and stay healthy (e.g., finding […]
While a weekend in Barbados watching mama sea turtles lay eggs in the beach sand DOES sound pretty darn nice, Southlanders don’t need to travel far to experience a sea creatures exiting the water with the purpose of procreation. The Southern California Grunion Run is a bona fide rite of passage and an annual event that celebrates that slippery silver fish that has found beach sand the perfect incubator.
Young filmmakers in the San Gabriel Valley could achieve fame, glory and cash prizes if they masterfully tell the story of how to keep black bears out of populated areas. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is presenting the 2013 Bear Aware Youth Contest, inviting high school students to create a short film (three […]
Desert kit foxes, those small, night-loving, rodent-eating mammals, are a little closer to being listed as California’s next threatened species. This week, the folks at the Center for Biological Diversity (CMD) filed to list the fox under the California Endangered Species Act (CalESA) which would give foxes more clout when developers come with shovels to disrupt their dwindling […]
Although there is much rejoicing with the recent news that the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has given candidacy species designation on March 1, 2013 to the California great white shark, some biologists are jumping for joy. (To clarify, great whites are being CONSIDERED for either threatened or endangered status – The California Endangered […]
Those early blue whales that have been spotted off the coastline in Southern California this week and last may not be as unusual as you think. For the past five years, the first sightings of these behemoths have been in April; last year, there was a February sighting as well. A few early blues have […]
Some red tailed and red shoulder hawks in Southern California can take long-distance summer trips as far away as Idaho, raptor expert Pete Bloom recently told an audience of Audubon members and interested public at the Audubon Center in Debs Park. “We call these birds vagrants or ‘Magellans’ because they are charting into unknown territory,” […]
Volunteers and staff at the International Bird Rescue’s (IBR) Los Angeles center are putting in extra hours to wash, rehabilitate and care for an unprecedented number of oiled seabirds that are being delivered almost daily to the San Pedro facility.
This is really cool.
Fans and staff at the OC Zoo are mourning the passing of Nacho, a much-loved black bear that lived at the zoo for more than 11 years. Nacho died on Feb. 14, 2013. California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife brought Nacho to the zoo in 2001 because he was orphaned at a very young age […]
If you’re near a keyboard, you’re near the birds. Taking place Feb. 15-18, 2013, the Great Backyard Bird Count goes global this year with the addition of mankind’s friend for the ages, the Internet. Now, when you watch and record birds for 15 minutes at any location, you can tally your numbers online at www.birdcount.org […]
Natural oil often seeps into the ocean in the LA Basin…and it routinely affects shore-loving birds like the common murre from November to May. This year, however, the staff at the International Bird Rescue is seeing an influx of oiled birds…which makes officials and rescue staff scratch their heads in wonder. For a while, the […]