#goldengateaudubonsociety — Public Fediverse posts

Watch these fluffy Ridgway's rail chicks grow up before your eyes. Rick Lewis celebrates this endangered species' progress, "Every baby Ridgway rail that grows to adulthood brings the species one step further away from extinction."

https://alamedapost.com/features/nature/endangered-ridgways-rails-raise-their-young-on-mlk-shoreline/

#alameda #ArrowheadMarsh #birdwatching #CaliforniaClapperRails #ebrpd #GoldenGateAudubonSociety #GoldenGateBirdAlliance #MartinLutherKingJrRegionalShoreline #RidgwaysRails #SandhillCranes #SaveTheBay

Watch these fluffy Ridgway's rail chicks grow up before your eyes. Rick Lewis celebrates this endangered species' progress, "Every baby Ridgway rail that grows to adulthood brings the species one step further away from extinction."

https://alamedapost.com/features/nature/endangered-ridgways-rails-raise-their-young-on-mlk-shoreline/

#alameda #ArrowheadMarsh #birdwatching #CaliforniaClapperRails #ebrpd #GoldenGateAudubonSociety #GoldenGateBirdAlliance #MartinLutherKingJrRegionalShoreline #RidgwaysRails #SandhillCranes #SaveTheBay

Watch these fluffy Ridgway's rail chicks grow up before your eyes. Rick Lewis celebrates this endangered species' progress, "Every baby Ridgway rail that grows to adulthood brings the species one step further away from extinction."

https://alamedapost.com/features/nature/endangered-ridgways-rails-raise-their-young-on-mlk-shoreline/

#alameda #ArrowheadMarsh #birdwatching #CaliforniaClapperRails #ebrpd #GoldenGateAudubonSociety #GoldenGateBirdAlliance #MartinLutherKingJrRegionalShoreline #RidgwaysRails #SandhillCranes #SaveTheBay

Watch these fluffy Ridgway's rail chicks grow up before your eyes. Rick Lewis celebrates this endangered species' progress, "Every baby Ridgway rail that grows to adulthood brings the species one step further away from extinction."

https://alamedapost.com/features/nature/endangered-ridgways-rails-raise-their-young-on-mlk-shoreline/

#alameda #ArrowheadMarsh #birdwatching #CaliforniaClapperRails #ebrpd #GoldenGateAudubonSociety #GoldenGateBirdAlliance #MartinLutherKingJrRegionalShoreline #RidgwaysRails #SandhillCranes #SaveTheBay

Alameda Point is home to a very important breeding site for a colony of endangered California least terns. Rick Lewis reports back from an excursion to the site with photos of the "small, resilient, and entertaining birds" and their camouflaged chicks.

https://alamedapost.com/features/alameda-life/return-of-the-terns/

#alameda #AlamedaPoint #birdwatching #CaliforniaLeastTern #CrabCove #ebrpd #FriendsOfTheAlamedaWildlifeReserve #GoldenGateAudubonSociety #UnitedStatesFishAndWildlifeService

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against a wind farm at Altamont Pass after dozens of golden eagles were killed every year by wind turbines. The wind farm is now required to install a bird detection system to stop the turbine blades whenever a golden eagle gets too close.

https://alamedapost.com/features/alameda-life/making-wind-energy-safer-for-golden-eagles/

#birds #ebrpd #usfws #lawsuit #WindFarms #WindEnergy #AltamontPass #birdwatching #conservation #GoldenEagles #IdentiFlight #WindTurbines #GoldenGateAudubonSociety

Spring is here, and chicks are too! Great blue herons and snowy egrets are nesting in trees around the island of Alameda and Bay Farm Island. Marjorie Powell highlights these species, with photos of the babies and nests by Rick Lewis.

https://alamedapost.com/features/alameda-life/baby-birds-abound/

#birds #alameda #GreatEgrets #SnowyEgrets #birdwatching #GreatBlueHeron #GoldenGateAudubonSociety #FriendsOfTheAlamedaWildlifeReserve