Our 10 favorite birds of the redwoods
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New Protections for the Mysterious Marbled Murrelet
onIn February, Oregon’s Fish and Wildlife Commission voted to reclassify the marbled murrelet from threatened to endangered. The vote is good news, considering that murrelets have lost an estimated 78,600 acres of nesting habitat in Oregon since 1993. By some models cited by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the species risks an 80 percent chance of extinction by 2060 in certain parts of the state.
Bird in hand and two in the bush
onSeveral weeks ago, a wily Steller’s jay outsmarted me while I cooked breakfast under the redwoods in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. I was about to sit down and eat my scrambled eggs, but decide to first fetch the boiling water off my …
What Makes a Blue Bird Blue?
onIn 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 …
