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Raptor Rapture
Volunteers tracking individual raptor nests over years build a picture of how human activity is impacting wildlife.
Read MoreCalifornia Brown Pelican: Mysterious Deaths Despite DDT Ban
The continuing saga of the California brown pelican. Photo: Beverly Gates
Read MorePeacocks: The Gorgeous Invaders
Pride or pest? The exotic pets that flew the coop and multiplied.
Read MoreFabulous, Fantastic Feathers
From T. rex to hummingbirds, feathers are more than just fluff.
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Virtual Happy Hour: Center of Life
Photographer Paul Blieden reveals the secret world at the center of a flower.
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Watching and Listening to Birds—Just What the Doctor Ordered!
By Susan Rothrock Deo Have you found yourself listening to the birds singing more since the pandemic started? You are not alone, and it’s not just because there are fewer human-caused sounds since we are home more. According to Mary…
Read MoreAlong the Path: A Young Person’s Guide to Exploring Nature – Music in the Air
By Susan Rothrock Deo …
Read MoreAlong the Path — Nature Close to Home: Entertaining and Enlightening
Story and Photos By Susan Rothrock Deo Greetings from the depths of our “Corona Spring.” None of us can predict what things will look like by the time you read this newsletter. We can only practice our best social distancing…
Read MoreThe Gnatcatcher Saves Coastal Habitat
By Barbara Dye, former Executive Director of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy The Rancho Palos Verdes Natural Communities Conservation Plan (NCCP), which gave us the nature preserve, all started because of a small, gray bird, the coastal California gnatcatcher,…
Read MoreAlong the Path: A Wonderful Bird is the Pelican
By Susan Rothrock Deo A Wonderful Bird Is the Pelican/ His bill can hold more than his belican. [from a limerick by Dixon Lanier Merritt] We watch them floating in formation along the coast, or they watch us…
Read MoreAlong the Path: Soaring Free – The Red Tailed Hawk
By Susan Rothrock Deo (Soaring hawk photo by Ashok Khosla) “Keee. Keeeee.” The shrill call pierced the air. Three red tailed hawks soared over the canyon, their pale, brick-red tails glinting like stained glass….
Read MoreAlong the Path: Hummingbirds, the Fastest Thing on Wings
By Susan Rothrock Deo Hummer! I recognized the feathery buzz whirring by my head earlier. Now, as I write, I catch sight of one through the window by my desk. She is sitting on a telephone wire draped toward our…
Read MoreA Nighttime Surprise
Along the Path: A Young Person’s Guide to Exploring Nature A Nighttime Surprise By Susan Rothrock Deo The other night I glanced out the windows in our family room at the city lights twinkling in the distance. A huge winged…
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