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FresnoAudubon
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Приєднався 25 кві 2011
The mission of Fresno Audubon is to engage local communities in building a sustainable environment for people, birds, and other wildlife through education. The Fresno Audubon Society, founded in 1966, is a chapter of the National Audubon Society. The mission of Fresno Audubon is to engage local communities in building a sustainable environment for people, birds, and other wildlife through education, science, and advocacy.
California Native Plants & Birds
Did you know California is home to over 5,000 species of native plants and 700 species of birds have been observed here? However, much of the state’s native flora is now in peril, with many species listed as endangered and on the verge of extinction.
Learn the history of these changes and how you can help bring back the birds through grassroots efforts at the home or garden. This presentation will teach you how to plan and maintain a California native plant garden to attract and care for birds visiting your local landscape. Additionally, participants will be introduced to many of the local birds that visit our yards and open spaces.
Bio:
Benny Isaac Jacobs-Schwartz owns and operates a bird-guiding business and lifestyle brand called BIRDS by BIJS (pronounced Bee-jus). With a background in biology, ecology, and outdoor education, Benny has worked professionally for over 10 years as a naturalist guide, expedition trip leader, and international bird guide. Through his business, Benny offers professionally guided birding outings in Southern California and offers small-group birding tours to his favorite tropical locales like Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Colombia.
Benny is a passionate educator and photographer, specializing in birds! Benny is active on social media where he creates fun, educational videos and posts to inspire others about the natural world with the goal of getting folks to put down their phone and pick up their Binos.
Learn the history of these changes and how you can help bring back the birds through grassroots efforts at the home or garden. This presentation will teach you how to plan and maintain a California native plant garden to attract and care for birds visiting your local landscape. Additionally, participants will be introduced to many of the local birds that visit our yards and open spaces.
Bio:
Benny Isaac Jacobs-Schwartz owns and operates a bird-guiding business and lifestyle brand called BIRDS by BIJS (pronounced Bee-jus). With a background in biology, ecology, and outdoor education, Benny has worked professionally for over 10 years as a naturalist guide, expedition trip leader, and international bird guide. Through his business, Benny offers professionally guided birding outings in Southern California and offers small-group birding tours to his favorite tropical locales like Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Colombia.
Benny is a passionate educator and photographer, specializing in birds! Benny is active on social media where he creates fun, educational videos and posts to inspire others about the natural world with the goal of getting folks to put down their phone and pick up their Binos.
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Rich Cimino's Favorite Birds of the Sierra Nevada
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Rich lives in Larkspur and is an active member of the Marin Audubon Society, where he participates in three Marin CBC’s and the Marin County Breeding Bird Atlas. He has been birding Northern California for 55 years, leading Bay Area Audubon field trips for 43 years, and Marin Audubon field trips for 10 years. Having volunteered for GGRO Hawk Watch for 12 years and Audubon Canyon Ranch Heron and...
Robots, Telemetry, & Sex Lives of Wild Birds
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Animals use a dizzying array of sounds, smells, colors, dances, electrical fields and seismic vibrations to convince each other to mate. These elaborate courtship signals were a mystery until Darwin’s theory of sexual selection, which proposed that the courting sex (often, but not always the males) must be elaborate because the courted sex (often, but not always the females) demands it. But how...
Flight Calls to Monitor Nocturnal Migration
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Most songbird migration happens while we’re sleeping, with warblers, sparrows, and other birds passing overhead during their nocturnal flights. These migrating birds are not entirely silent during the night; many species repeatedly make short calls as they fly, referred to as nocturnal flight calls. In this presentation Rob will outline the basics of how bird migration can be monitored using au...
Natural History of Western Cardueline Finches
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Finches are, in many respects, the archetype of what people think of when they hear the word “bird.” Yet concealed in that “typical bird” form lies amazing variation. Among our numerous western finches - goldfinches, siskins, crossbills, grosbeaks, and so forth - we have: birds that are about as likely to breed in January when the snow lies deep on the ground as they are in July, birds that per...
Harmonizing Bird Conservation with Food Production in Farming Landscapes
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A critical challenge for this century is transitioning towards sustainable farming systems that simultaneously produce food and conserve wildlife. Yet conservation scientists and practitioners have traditionally fixated on protected areas and overlooked opportunities for conserving wildlife alongside us in working landscapes. Daniel uses ecological research to develop strategies for co-managing...
Zambia Safari
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Description Join Robert Groos on safari to Zambia. No need to fly all the way to the other side of the world. On this photo and video expedition, you will experience the birds and other wildlife (lions, leopards, elephants, zebra, antelope, of course) of Zambia as if you were sitting by my side in the safari jeep. Enjoy an incredible travel experience, informative as well as entertaining, witho...
Rufous Hummingbirds at feeders in Tustin CA
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Hundreds of Rufous Hummingbirds visit backyard feeders in Tustin CA.
How the Birds Taught Humanity to Fly
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Description: Since the dawn of recorded history, humans have wanted to fly like the birds. Although many studied the secret of avian flight during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, it was not until the Industrial Revolution that the technological tools for humanity to fly became available. By the mid and late 1800s, spurred on by the science of bird flight, dozens of people, and the Wright...
Hawk Migration Association of North America
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Biography: Julie Brown has been the Raptor Migration and Programs Director at HMANA since 2008. Prior to her work at HMANA, she migrated throughout the US and tropics working as a field biologist, primarily with raptors, focusing on human impact studies, migration research and behavioral studies. Julie received her BS in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Maine and received her MS in Conserv...
Wild Turkeys
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Description: Wild Turkeys, up close and personal Wild Turkeys roam the foothills of Coarsegold. In early spring, an annual pageant unfolds: traveling leks of hopeful males seeking to mate with willing females. It is a wondrous exposition of biological desire, and much more. Robert Groos has had the good fortune to observe and capture it all with photos and video. In this presentation, you will ...
Fall Raptors of Fresno County
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As winter settles in our neck of the woods, various species of raptors migrate into our locality, both increasing the numbers of common summer residents and adding a few overwintering species as well. This presentation will provide comparisons of the natural history, behavior, structure, and field marks for several species, including Golden and Bald Eagles, Turkey Vulture, Red-tailed, Red-shoul...
Purple Martin in NorCal
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Purple martins have been in long-term decline in California. Since the 1990s, Dan Airola has been studying and working to conserve the last Central Valley population, which nests in elevated freeways and overpasses in Sacramento. He also has conducted status surveys throughout Northern California. His talk presents these study results and describes conservation measures that have been implement...
Birds of Morocco
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John Sterling shares highlights from his tours’ adventures in Morocco. With its high mountains, high desert, low Sahara desert, agricultural plains, coastal lagoons, cork oak woodland, and coniferous forest, Morocco has much to offer to birds and birders. Home to several endemic bird species as well as North Africa species not readily seen elsewhere, it is also along the major migratory pathway...
Audubon Conservation Ranching Initiative
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Audubon Conservation Ranching: Incentivizing Regenerative Grassland Management by Connecting Certified Ranches to Consumer Markets California has roughly 40 million acres of rangelands that provide food production, carbon sequestration, water infiltration, and habitat for a wide range of species. However, this historic land use is under threat with an average of 20,000 acres a year being lost t...
Hawai'i's Forest Birds Past, Present and Future
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Hawai'i's Forest Birds Past, Present and Future
Yellow billed Magpie Population Status and Ecology in the Sacramento Region
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Yellow billed Magpie Population Status and Ecology in the Sacramento Region
The Return of Gray Wolves to California
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The Return of Gray Wolves to California
Sleuthing Into the Secret Lives of Wood Ducks
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Sleuthing Into the Secret Lives of Wood Ducks
Birds of the Tropics by Benny Jacobs-Schwartz
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Birds of the Tropics by Benny Jacobs-Schwartz
Sandhill Crane Fly-in at Merced National Wildlife Refuge
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Sandhill Crane Fly-in at Merced National Wildlife Refuge
Wastewater Treatment Plant Virtual Field Trip 18 September 2021
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Wastewater Treatment Plant Virtual Field Trip 18 September 2021
Thats major monoculture 1:09 eww
Amazing!!!!
Have you considered wrapping part of the post with a thin flashing metal (aluminum)? Any suggestions for Southern California (in the foothills north of LA)? We have GHO, but I am not sure what other species populate the area... Info on SoCal seems limited.
Haven’t really heard of folks using aluminum or such but critters are pretty ingenious at getting around barriers. In theory it might work though. Barn Owls would be your best bet in your location as they have a very wide and diverse range throughout the U.S. here’s a link for more info: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barn_Owl/overview#
Are you still in Sacramento? If so I would love to visit with you. I love wolves
I heard wolves howling last night really close. I live in the Portola Senior Citizens apartments #27. A few minutes ago I looked out my bedroom window and saw BIG PAW PRINTS bigger than a dogs, right under my window and up against my outside wall. And it looks like more than one I am so excited!!!! I didn’t see them, but heard that beautiful howling. We are in Portola,in Plumas county. I am not telling anyone here, I don’t want them hurt. My daughter told me wolves killed 5 sheep where she lives in Loyalton, Ca.. We have a thick forest right here next to our apartment.
Keep in mind that this is a public comment section visible to everyone and anyone, including potential poachers. I found your location on Google Earth with ease. Consider editing out the name of your apartment complex or deleting the comment in order to not draw unwanted attention to yourself or any local wildlife. Thank you for caring. Be well.
Awesome! 🎉 Just one thing to suggest, I'm really interested in bird song, because more often than not you hear the birds without seeing them. I wonder whether it would be possible to include a sample when introducing the birds.
Thanks for all your hard work and providing if to the world. The video is very interesting. Having moved from the bay area to Manteca in 2008, one of the first things I discovered were numerous Yellow Billed Magpies throughout my neighborhood. Thanks to Google I was able to learn what they were and a little bit about them. I was so impressed by their beauty that I named my Mediterranean style back yard "La Gaza Giardino" (Italian for The Magpie Garden). I have no scientific input but I can confirm that where I live in Manteca, south of CA 120 and within a mile of the San Joaquin River, I've often seen Yellow Billed Magpies foraging in groups or drinking from my fountain or perched on rooftops. They love the green grass lawns but I never see them on my artificial turf. For some strange reason, they frequently can be seen on the blacktop streets around the local neighborhoods but not on the concrete walks. I suspect the blacktop is porous enough to provide a place for small bugs and such. The very tall Box Elder trees close by provide great nesting places for them and, often times during the spring months in particular, I can see many in a single day. However, the groups seem to move about to different neighborhoods as most days I see none and, usually, they only stay for a few hours before moving on. I have not noticed them preferring large areas as they did in the study but, of course, I see them frequently where I live because that is where I am most all the time. The groups I see where I live seem to have indeed adapted very well to urban life. I cannot tell if they are flourishing or not because I'm so used to them by now that I usually don't pay much attention to them any more.
Very Comprehensive!
*I went birding in Oahu and all I saw was non native birds*
As an undergrad going into Environmental Studies who has taken Ornithology, I love Yellow Billed Magpies. The points abput foraging in groups I have noticed in my own observations too, I wonder if their foraging is meant to be a social aspect as well. I also notice them on electrical towers in groups too. It was also nice to see my area represented :), Howe park is a great place to find magpies now Im curious about those nest sites! Great video, I hope to make my own some day to further research on magpies 😊
A female wolf and two pups were spotted on Gaston ridge in Nevada County think they came through pl Pumas , Sierra,crossed into Nevada county I have property in Graniteville Ca prime wolf /Grizzly habitat is on the border of Sierra and Nevada county
This was great content. Thanks for sharing it.
Thx for the hard work. A challenging process
1st of all they are not California Gray wolves! They are Canadian wolf's! The California Gray was 80 pounds... The Canadian wolf is 180 pounds. I personally have seen wolves in the Roseville/Sacramento area For the last 8 years. The last one I saw was dead in front of a Classer county sheriff S UV. His nose was at 1 Side of the front and his back section was on the other side. Possibly 140 to 180 lbs the color was black by Seeno Avenue on Douglas boulevard
Oh look, another "this was not the wolf that was here" recycler. Let me guess, you heard that on whatever version of local news you have in your rural county? Or perhaps you read too much social media posts and Reddit seems like a good place to get your information? Either way, your logic is not your own and is deeply misinformed. The Canadian grey wolf is a grey wolf and all the past sub-species were grey wolves all with a 99.9% genetic match. As a professor from the Colorado State University put it- "the subspecies argument is a red herring at best". Just think on it, if it was that easy for the "Canadian" grey wolf to establish themselves after being gone for 100 years, why wouldn't they have had the same mobility in the past? Food for thought.
Gray wolves do not have nationalities. Our invisible political boundaries are meaningless to them. The species returning to California is the same species across the border in Canada. Canis (genus) lupus (species). The only other two choices are red wolves (Canis rufus) and the newly recognized eastern wolf (Canis lycaon). The "Canadian wolf" myth is nothing more than anti-wolf propaganda. As mentioned in the above video, the largest wolf ever weighed was under your 180 lb claim, and he had a belly full of meat amounting to 20 lbs or so. The largest. Not your average wolf weight, no matter the location on this planet. The Southern Rockies Canine Project had been tracking wolves traversing from Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada to northwestern Montana and northern Idaho since its founding in 1987. This was one of the most extensive wolf research projects in all of North America. See: Pluie wolf. The reintroduction of gray wolves captured east of Jasper NP near Hinton, Alberta, and east of Williston Lake in British Columbia and released into central Idaho and Yellowstone NP, simply hastened a natural return that was already occurring. Gray wolves have been crossing the imaginary boundary that is Canada since well before the occupying culture of hominids created such a concept. Just prior to reintroduction, wolves were struggling to naturally reestablish themselves due to the poaching of such a vulnerable, minuscule population. Thus hands were forced to turn to this method in order to restore a keystone species. Even Theodore Roosevelt during his explorations of the region, did not encounter the mythical pygmy wolves which the anti-wolf lot claim are closer in size and dimension to the persecuted coyotes that they also fawn over oh so much (sarcasm). To the contrary, he described the native wolves of the Northern Rocky Mountain states as the "long-toothed giants of their race." - Hunting the Grisly, Chapter VIII, Wolves and Wolf Hounds, published in 1893 by Theodore Roosevelt. The fact that reintroduction had to even be considered, should clue one in that this idea is irrelevant. Those who demonize the species are simply desperate to justify hatred, and it matters not how heavy the wolves are or even whether they were reintroduced or not. Example: the Great Lakes population. Never needed to be reintroduced, smaller subspecies that hybridizes with eastern wolves. Still demonized. Further, I have access to every single Idaho Big Game Mortality Report for wolves killed during the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 seasons (two of the very first three), and all the weights of those officially weighed by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. These wolves are a source population. Females average 86 pounds, males 101 pounds. Not a significant difference between the two subspecies historically present, and they intergraded where they came together. Overtime their morphology will adapt to be an even better fit for the conditions in their more southerly territories, regardless. Same species, providing the same needed ecological function as they did historically. They were present for thousands upon thousands of years, and gone for less than a hundred. WELCOME HOME WOLVES.
Thank you so much for this presentation. How heartbreaking. I would like to know more about the app for tracking information on bait boxes? I can't seem to find it on Google Playstore
About 6 years ago I could of sworn I saw a dead grey wolf near the American river near auburn ca. they are so much bigger than you would imagine. If it wasn’t a Wolf it was the largest coyote I ever saw.
Would this box be appropriate for “Barred” owls?
Sorry for the delay. While barred owls and barn owls have different nesting preferences, there have been instances where barred owls have been observed using barn owl nesting boxes. However, it's not common because they typically prefer differently sized tree cavities or nests in dense forests. If you're interested in attracting barred owls, it's better to provide suitable nesting habitat such as mature forests with large trees.
This is a great and informative video thank you
Thanks for the great video. Some of the links you provided are not working.
Thanks for pointing that out, we have fixed the broken link.
Verry verry Nice
The beckwourth pack has not been detected in 2022 I hope they are okay
Great video filled with lots of great info! We live in Turlock and have an owl house which needs to be replaced. Unfortunately, we can’t find anyone locally that builds them. Our present one is very similar to the one in your video and that is the kind we would like to find to replace ours. Could you please refer us to someone who builds them so we could secure a replacement for ours? Thanking you in advance for your help.
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Many thanks! I've moved from Europe to America (California), and I always liked the swifts in Europe, but they are a bit harder to find here (partially because I am lessed used to the different sounds they make here).
Thanks for listening Fresno Audubon members. It is always fun to talk about this amazing bird and its remarkable behaviors that we know so little about. I hope you enjoyed it and thanks for the invitation. Best wishes - John
Hello, I was not able to attend the original Webinar. I saw it from the recording. I did not see the link pertaining to the new California Representative you spoke about. Could you email that to me please?
Very well done Christopher! You have unlimited potential and I hope you can make a living off your photography skills someday.
Thank you. Watched the whole thing just now. Fantastic. Enjoyed it very much. And I learned a bunch of new things.
Very cool. Thank you for the awesome video!
We get solitaires a lot where I’m from, always fun to see in the summer
Great information about our local birds. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it! More to come...