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Common Murre Restoration Project at San Francisco Bay NWR Complex; Project Puffin: Common Murres; Sheila Blamire – Norway Wildlife 2 Includes her photograph of an aberrant common guillemot with a yellow bill. "Common murre media". Internet Bird Collection. Common murre photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
Suisun Marsh, 116,000 acres (470 km 2) of land, bays, and sloughs, is one of the largest estuarine marshes in the western United States. Geologically, the Suisun Marsh is the product of water-borne sediment deposition, carried from the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers into the San Francisco Bay.
It was established as the state bird in 1931. The quail population has fluctuated significantly throughout California. Once plentiful in San Francisco, by 2017 only one California quail remained in the city. Local birders named the male bird Ishi after the last known member of California's Native American Yahi tribe.
Accipitridae is a family of birds of prey which includes hawks, eagles, kites, harriers, and Old World vultures. These birds have very large powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, powerful talons, and keen eyesight. White-tailed kite, Elanus leucurus; Swallow-tailed kite, Elanoides forficatus (*)
Delphinium bakeri. Dudleya setchellii. Hesperolinon congestum (Marin dwarf flax) Lilium pardalinum subsp. pitkinense. Limnanthes vinculans. Oenothera deltoides subsp. howellii (Antioch Dunes evening primrose) Phacelia breweri. Streptanthus niger. This is a list of species endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area, the nine California counties which ...
In adult plumage, The largest western gull colony is on the Farallon Islands, located about 26 mi (40 km) west of San Francisco, California; an estimated 30,000 gulls live in the San Francisco Bay area. Western gulls also live in the Oregon Coast. Two subspecies are recognized, differentiated by the mantle and eye colouration.
In January 2015, scientists were working to identify a gray, thick, sticky, odorless substance coating on birds along San Francisco Bay shorelines. Hundreds of birds have died, and hundreds more have been coated with the substance. Scientists are concerned about other wildlife that may be at risk from the substance.
These California gulls now inhabit large, remote salt-production ponds and levees and have a very large food source provided by nearby landfills from San Francisco, San Jose and other urban areas, all the way up into the Sacramento area. The South Bay California gull population has grown from less than 1,000 breeding birds in 1982 to over ...