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  • SAGEHENS win awards at scientific meeting

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    Gail’17 won an award for Best Undergraduate Presentation and Kyle’17 won an honorable mention for Best Undergraduate Poster at the Pacific Seabird Group Meeting!

  • Sagehens at the Pacific Seabird Group meeting!

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    The 44th annual meeting in Tacoma is underway. Kyle’17 presented the results of three years of study at The Sea Ranch in a poster. Co-authors were Ellie’18, Jeffrey’17, Ramon’16 and Diane Hichwa from Madrone Audubon. Kyle’s parents came to see him present!

  • Hello From Sea Ranch! Summer 2016

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    Hello from Sea Ranch! This summer, I have embarked to Sea Ranch to continue the work of the past two summers (thank you to everyone who came the past two years!). I visit Gualala Point Island almost every morning and observe sea birds and their nests from either the north or the south. Here is…

  • POSTER PALOOZA Part III

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    The summer undergraduate research program (SURP) poster session was held yesterday and Jeffrey, Kyle, Leo, Mimi and Elika presented posters.         Jeffrey presented his poster twice that day, the second time was at a dinner to thank donors who contributed to the SURP program. Everyone did an OUTSTANDING job!  

  • A regular Sea Ranch day and many thanks!

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    Hi all! I’m still at Sea Ranch with my family but Kyle, Leo, and Jeffrey went home yesterday and our field work is done!  For a while I’ve been meaning to upload a “day in the life of” type post where I describe one of our normal days, so here it is even if it…

  • Behind the Scenes: The Sea Ranchers

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    Here are just a few sneak peeks into what goes on in the quest for blog material and research data. Jeffrey and Kyle taking photos of some type of cliff rodent. (The hats are part of the process too!) (Me) doodling caricatures of the nesting pelagic cormorants. Field research means field sketches too right? Jeffrey…

  • Increasing the taxonomic diversity of my photos

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    I’ve received reports that some people feel like my photographs are not representative of the taxonomic diversity here at The Sea Ranch. Some people have claimed that my blog posts are still an “old birds club,” “yet another example of the rampant speciesism that permeates the scientific community” and “just another blog in which the orders Pelicaniformes, Charadriiformes and…

  • Looking around

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    There is a lot going on here besides just the seabirds, and I thought it would be nice to make a post showing some of the animals we see when we stop to just look around a bit. There’s a lot to see, so I’ll just post a few of the photos I’ve taken and maybe…

  • More Bird Pictures!

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    The double crested cormorant (DCCO) is the most common cormorant in the United States, but you wouldn’t know that in Sea Ranch since we see relatively few of these guys around. Unlike the Pelagic Cormorant and the Brandt’s Cormorant, the Double Crested Cormorant prefers to nest around freshwater. Their orange faces make identification easy. The majestic Great Blue…

  • Intertidal Surveys!

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    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…