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- February 5, 2010. Shelters in San Pedro and the San Francisco Bay Area are full of emaciated California Brown Pelicans. As many as 1,000 of the gangly seabirds failed to make their annual fall migration to California, many instead winding up at Oregon's rehabilitation centers. Those that did head south, were battered by California's recent storms. Read more...
- January 28, 2010. Science Daily reports "Birds largely rely on their sense of smell to navigate on their long migration routes. Indeed, the 'third sense' has been shown to be a more important for them than orientation based on the sun and the earth’s magnetic field." Read more...
- January 25, 2010. Several dozen California Brown Pelicans have been rescued after suffering hypothermia and starvation due to contamination from storm drain runoff that flooded the ocean with contaminates like car oil after recent winter storms. Read more...
- January 7, 2010. A growing body of evidence indicates that pesticide exposure may be playing an important role in the decline of amphibians, bees and bats, and scientists are investigating whether such exposures may be involved in the deaths of more than 1 million bats in the northeastern United States over the past several years. Read more...
- January 6, 2010. The Sacramento Valley Red Fox has now found to be native to California, and closely related to the Sierra Nevada Red Fox. Genetic testing by Ben Sacks, an assistant professor of biology at both UC Davis, and CSU Sacramento, shows that the foxes are unique. Davis research will be published in Conservation Genetics.Read more...
- December 15, 2009. A cheetah at the Safari West Wildlife Preserve in Santa Rosa, California, has become the first known exotic animal to contract the H1N1 virus in the United States. Read more...
- December 11, 2009. Making the Wildlife – Human Connection for a Holistic Approach to Disease Prevention and Control. This informative publication, Disease Emergence and Resurgence: The Wildlife-Human Connection, is available in its entirety to download from the USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) web site. Read more...
- Deecember 9, 2009. A trio of rare Pacific fishers will be released today onto timberland in the far northern Sierra - the first of 40 to be set free on Sierra Pacific Industries property over the next three years. Read more...
- November 5, 2009. Wind energy is a promising source of “green energy.” However, unprecedented numbers of certain bat species are consistently dying at wind turbines, and birds are also affected. USGS scientists are investigating what makes bats and birds vulnerable to turbines, as well as the extent to which turbines may be affecting their populations. Read more...
- September 9, 2009.UC Davis’ Road Ecology Center and Information Center for the Environment invites you to join our cadre of Roadkill Reporters on the California Roadkill Observation System. Using this web site, you can report roadkills you observe anywhere in the state, helping all of us to understand the causes of roadkill and how we can reduce the conflict between animals and vehicles. Read more...
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