Category: California

The whooping crane (Grus americana) is named for the “whooping” sound that it makes. It is the tallest bird of North America and is only one of two crane species[...]

A walk through the dense forests of the Mendocino area will fill your nostrils with that familiar smell of damp forest floors littered with millions of decomposing leaves and other[...]

When the English explorer Francis Drake and his ship the Golden Hind reached the Point Reyes seashore of California in 1579 he was hoping to find a direct route from[...]

This stealthy hunter was formerly known as the Pigeon Hawk, not for its hunting of pigeons but for its resemblance of them in flight. The bird’s high speed and agility[...]

Named for the English collector William Cooper who supplied bird specimens to other collectors and museums during the 1800s, this hawk uses speed and stealth to ambush its prey. Its[...]

The American Bald Eagle is the symbol of the United States of America. It has been the national bird of the United States since 1782 when it was placed with[...]

The American Kestrel, once known as the Sparrow Hawk, is one of those birds that are most difficult to photograph.[...]

Around our area of Carmichael, California there are a lot of wild turkeys, and occasionally we see a scarce version that is called a smoke morph. This happens to only[...]

The European Starling invades North America:  We as a species have always tried to do the right thing, or at least what we think to be the right thing. We[...]

For the past few years, the California town of Maxwell, located about 70 miles north of Sacramento along Interstate 5, plays host to a most unusual visitor- a very colorful[...]