Malibu Lagoon Monthly Field Trips: Sunday, 28 July, 8:30 & 10am. — SANTA MONICA BAY AUDUBON SOCIETY BLOG

The migrating shorebirds are already starting to return in their bright colors. And the mullet may be jumping! Some of the great birds we’ve had in July are: Gadwall, Pied-billed and Eared Grebe, Brown Pelican, Great Blue Heron, Red-shouldered Hawk, Snowy Plover, Spotted Sandpiper, Willet, Whimbrel, Ruddy Turnstone, Western Sandpiper, Heermann’s & Western Gulls, Least, […] …

Playero Diminuto/Least Sandpiper/Calidris minutilla — Birds Colombia: 854 especies hoy

Nombre en español: Playero Diminuto Nombre en ingles: Least Sandpiper Nombre científico: Calidris minutilla Familia: Scolopacidae Foto: Juan Pablo Arboleda/Rodrigo Gaviria/Leandro Vargas Canto: Andrew Spencer La menudilla, becacina, tinguís, patudo, correlimos enano​ o chichicuilote (Calidris minutilla) es una pequeña ave de la familia de los escolopácidos. Descripción Mide en promedio 14 cm y pesa 21 …

Baby Flamingo’s Struggle to Stand on One Foot Is Basically All of Us — TIME

Spend enough time in Florida or Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood and eventually you’ll see a plastic pink flamingo perched on someone’s lawn, standing in its usual one-legged pose. Despite what the plastic flamingo manufacturers have lead us to believe, flamingos don’t come out of the egg knowing how to strike that particular pose, though. It turns… via …

Renegade Penguin Pair With No Respect for Authority Return to Favored Sushi Spot After Initial Removal — TIME

You can’t tell penguins that they can’t have something, because it will only make them want it more. And a pair of small mischief-making blue penguins proved exactly that. A sushi spot in Wellington, New Zealand became the unexpected site of a viral penguin hideout where the two birds recently hid beneath the foot truck… via …

Playero Occidental/Western Sandpiper/Calidris mauri — Birds Colombia: 846 especies hoy

Nombre en español: Playero Occidental Nombre en ingles: Western Sandpiper Nombre científico: Calidris mauri Familia: Scolopacidae Foto: Jose Luis Pushaina/Samuel Aristizabal/Francisco Piedrahita Canto: Andrew Spencer El correlimos de Alaska (Calidris mauri o Erolia mauri) es una pequeña ave limícola de la familia Scolopacidae. Descripción Los adultos tienen las piernas oscuras y pico corto, fino y …

Animal Rescue Group Needs Help Caring for 89 Baby Egrets and Herons After Their Tree Fell in Oakland — KTLA

An animal rescue group is asking for help caring for 89 baby snowy egrets and black-crowned night herons left homeless last week after a tree fell in downtown Oakland. A ficus tree serving as a rookery split in half and partially fell last week. International Bird Rescue said Wednesday it needs donations and volunteers to… via …

Field Notes: South Fork of the Payette River — Wickersham’s Conscience

The Payette River, with the Boise River and Weiser River, are the river systems that drain the westerly side of the Idaho Batholith in central Idaho. Like its more famous cousin, the Salmon River and its various forks, the Payette has carved deeply into the Batholith. Unlike its sister streams, in many stretches of the […] …