A Year of Big Days: March
I woke up on March 28 at 4:30am, not initially planning on doing a yard Big Day that day. After the coffee kicked in during my morning reading I could hear a Great Horned Owl calling outside and my thoughts turned to the fact that I had planned to conduct one yard Big Day per…
A Year of Big Days: January
I wasn’t sure when I woke up a little after 5am on Saturday, January 13 if it was going to happen. I came into 2024 planning a year of yard Big Days—one per month—in an effort to see how many species I could get in a year and how the numbers would change from month…
Year One of England|Ecology, LLC
I’ve spent perhaps the last month thinking about doing a blog post on England|Ecology’s first year, which wasn’t even a full year since I left my position as Director of Biological Resources at Bargas in March. The intent was to potentially relay how well England|Ecology met the goals in the business plan. The problem, of…
2023: The Year in Birds
2023 was one hell of a year in many respects, both personally and professionally, but this post will only cover one aspect of that: birding. In the quest for both birds and outdoor experiences I made two significant trips, and managed to see (and photograph) a lot of new species. The Trips Volume-wise, most of…
Pond Turtles Proposed for Federal Listing
Today, the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the Northwestern Pond Turtle (Actinemys marmorata) and Southwestern Pond Turtle (Actinemys pallida) as threatened under the Federal Endangered Species Act. At the time the agency initiated this listing process the two taxa were considered the same species, Western Pond Turtle, which is reflected in the…
North Pacific Right Whale Critical Habitat to be Revised
On September 26, 2023 the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced a 12-month determination on a petition to revise the critical habitat designation for the North Pacific Right Whale (Eubalaena japonica) under the Endangered Species Act. The NMFS intends to revise critical habitat after receipt of a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity and…
Wildlife Society Bulletin: California Condor Poisoned by Lead, Not Copper, When Both are Ingested
The September 2023 issue of The Wildlife Society’s Wildlife Society Bulletin contains a paper by Finkelstein et al. documenting the case of a California Condor that had ingested a lead fragment and copper bullet simultaneously. From the paper’s abstract: Lead poisoning from feeding on carcasses shot with lead-based ammunition is a well-known threat to wildlife.…
Fish and Wildlife Service Announces 90-Day Findings for Five Species
Today, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced 90-day findings on petitions to add five species to the Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The Service found that the petitions to list the following four species presented “substantial scientific or commercial information indicating that…
Resumes Needed for On-Call Biologists
Overview of England|Ecology England|Ecology, LLC is a small high-quality biological consulting services provider based in Los Angeles. We are a forward-thinking company that serves clients with: The Need for Biologists 2023 is year 1 of operating as an LLC with our business plan anticipating 2024 (year 2) as the first year where on-call assistance by…
Discovering New Yard Birds at Night
A serious interest of mine is the use of autonomous recording units (ARU) to document bat (not covered here) and bird fauna. It was about a month ago that I received my first ARU. I deployed it in my front yard for 24 hours, but then outside of a few quick manual checks of the…
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