Barred owls and northern spotted owls have a lot in common: Both are brown-and-white owls; both are denizens of mature forests. The spotted owl hoots a four-note call, while the slightly larger barred owl hoots, “Who cooks for you?!” But …
Research funded by Save the Redwoods League suggests that programs designed to help reduce jay populations in areas where marbled murrelets nest, including old-growth coast redwood forests, will give these threatened seabirds a better chance at successful reproduction.
To be a naturalist or an artist—or of course both, like Clay Anderson—requires paying attention; to the world around you and how you respond to it. Nature journaling is one of the ways you can do that.
Of all the plants and animals that occupy the coast redwood ecosystem, among the more fascinating is the marbled murrelet, a brown and white seabird that’s a little bigger than a robin. This otherwise nondescript bird – called “fog larks” …
Join Ralph Bucher (707-499-1247; thebook@reninet.com) for great birding in Eureka. Birds will be scoped here at the public dock at foot of West Del Norte until everyone assembles.
The recent winner of our photo contest photographed a barred owl sitting on the branch of a redwood tree – an image difficult to capture as owls are more often heard than seen. But this image raises the question of …
In the gray-green dim of the redwood forest, a flash of blue ignites the dusky understory. A Steller’s jay alights upon a tanoak limb, chattering madly. The brightness of its feathers seems incongruous with the dark of the forest, a …
Audubon Magazine (March-April 2013 issue) reminds us “Why Birds Matter.” Of course birds have intrinsic value: to watch an eagle in flight is a thrill; to hear the whistle-like song of a marbled murrelet echo through the dark forest is …
