Category: News
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Field Trips!
Hi all! Nicole here, and since I’m the semi-local of the group I wanted to write about places I’ve been showing the others! Yay field trips! But first here are some pictures of my Black Oystercatcher nest through a scope! Also here’s a picture of the sunset from the house we’re staying in! A few…
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Guesses as to What Goes on in the Minds of BFS Animals
Pesky paparazzi… Ready for my close-up Plans of world domination or an innocent clearing of the throat – we will never know… Exclusive rabbit party – you’re not invited Get my good side And my other good side Silly humans… My cuteness knows no bounds
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Intertidal Surveys!
This past week brought a new adventure for the Sea Ranch team! We (Jeffrey, Kyle, Nicole, and I) volunteered along with several other individuals to help with an intertidal survey conducted by UC Santa Cruz’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department. Maya, Melissa, Karah, and Molly were our mentors throughout the project as the grad students…
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Updates on the BFS
This summer, with funding from the Thoreau Foundation (http://www.thoreauscholar.org/), I’m keeping track of the animals that visit different areas of the field station. The main question this project is exploring is how species composition is different between burned and unburned areas, and because of the 2013 fire, the BFS is an invaluable resource for this…
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Family Visit at the BFS!
A family of California quails, with two adults and three chicks, made a visit to the BFS a few days ago, and their outing was captured by one of our cameras! If you look closely you can see the three chicks following the adults in the pictures. California quails are very social birds and have…
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Ramon is back!
The Sea Ranch Sagehens (Kyle, Jeffrey, Leo, and me, Nicole) were excited to have Ramon visit to help settle into our research! He has been especially helpful with the protocol of the Pelagic Cormorant study; with his advice we were able to locate the same nests he did last last year to have consistency and a new set…
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SAGEHENS MEET THE SEA RANCH SEABIRDS
This summer four Sagehens (Jeffrey, Nicole, Leo and Kyle) are studying the seabirds breeding on the offshore rocks of the Sonoma coastline at Sea Ranch. The project started this past weekend with three full days of “bird boot camp” with Diane of the Madrone Audubon Society and Jim from the Bureau of Land Management introducing the…
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All Present at Pomona Valley Audubon
We were invited to share our bird related research at the Pomona Valley Audubon March meeting. So much fun to present our research to fellow bird enthusiasts! Birds of a feather…..
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Pacific Seabird Group 2015!
In February, we presented at the annual Pacific Seabird Group conference. While there we met Kristina’12 and alum Steve Hampton. Sagehens were well represented! A shout out to the PARENTS who attended the meeting! Thank you for your support! Nicole’s parents are pictured above and Mimi and her Mom are below.
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END OF SEMESTER CELEBRATION FOR LAB
We had a great time celebrating the end of the semester. Gibson, the parakeet, was in heaven with a roomful of bird lovers!