The New Sacramento Area Checklist The Sacramento Audubon Society has long produced checklists of the birds of the region. The checklist covers the area from State Highway 12 […]
Conservation Issues
Conservation news and issues happening in Yolo County.
Conservation Corner: March 2024
Hearing aids for birders – a personal story Many birders rely crucially on our ears to detect and identify birds. But what happens when our ears start to wear out? As […]
Conservation Corner: February 2024
A Contemporary Aid for Bird-Finders In the quiet corners of Yolo County, a passionate group of bird enthusiasts embarked on a quest to uncover the mysterious world of […]
Conservation Corner: January 2024
California Chaparral and its Birds at Risk Regardless of how we regard global warming or the climate crisis, there is no doubt […]
Conservation Corner: December 2023
The BirdsReturns Program A few years ago, seeing a big need for wetland habitat for migratory birds in the Central Valley, Audubon California, The Nature Conservancy and Point Blue […]
Conservation Corner: November 2023
Modern flood protection helps birds in Yolo County The aims and methods of protecting people and property from flooding in the Central Valley have shifted significantly in this century. […]
Conservation Corner: October 2023
A new geologic epoch is here Many believe that we have come to the end of a geologic era, a major subdivision in the earth’s history. That era (or epoch, […]
Conservation Corner: September 2023
Fall migration is here. Where do our birds come from? The May issue of this column introduced National Audubon’s Bird Migration Explorer. It’s a digital platform that […]
Conservation Corner: May 2023
Where do our spring migrants come from? Many of us marvel at the twice-a-year treks of migratory birds between breeding and wintering grounds. We wonder where they came from […]
Conservation Corner – April 2023
Climate Change Reduces Nesting Success of Local Songbirds Several times this column has mentioned the chain of nest boxes along Putah Creek that the UC Davis Museum of Wildlife and […]
Conservation Corner – March 2023
Northern Birds in the South This column follows up on the situation I reported last time. In the twenty-first century, a dozen or so southern California bird species have expanded […]
Conservation Corner – January 2023
Looking over decades of field notes from my neighborhood in Davis recently, I was reminded of two changes in bird life in this period in the Sacramento Valley. The first […]