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mountaintop 30 miles northeast of downtown Bakersfield captured a group of as many as 10 California condors roosting at a communications tower there. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bird in particular, a 7-year-old female designated alternately as Condor 811 or “Lulutti,” put on a bit of a show. She stared straight into the camera at one point to show off her naked, wrinkled, pinkish-red head. Later, she displayed her impressive wingspan and jet-black plumage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another member of the flock, a 14-year-old male prosaically named Condor 509, eyeballed the camera as the sun rose over the Sierra Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955988\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11955988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A large metal framed tower with several birds sitting on it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wildfire camera captured several California condors on Blue Mountain in Kern County on July 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(ALERTCalifornia/UC San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then he and others perching on steel towers festooned with cell transponders and other electronics glided off, presumably to look for a meal. Which, if you’re not familiar with condors’ gastronomic programming, consisted of dead meat. Later Wednesday, at least 14 of the birds had returned to the towers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(How do we know anything about these wild birds’ biographies? Each of them has a color-coded, numbered tag that allows the casual web condor watcher — or anyone lucky enough to spot Gymnogyps californianus on the wing — to confirm a bird’s identity, life history and family ties on \u003ca href=\"https://www.condorspotter.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an online database\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ALERTCalifornia/status/1681430243960299520\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency managing the long-running \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/program/california-condor-recovery\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Condor Recovery Program\u003c/a>, said the site is a known roosting spot for the birds. According to agency spokesperson Joanna Gilkeson, a condor hangout like the one on Blue Mountain “is not unusual. California condors are highly social birds and are known to congregate in this way.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he camera atop Kern County’s Blue Mountain, elevation 4,813 feet, is part of a network managed and put online by a UC San Diego project called \u003ca href=\"https://alertcalifornia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ALERTCalifornia\u003c/a>. The instrument shows the birds with startling clarity. But it barely hints at what a wonder those winged creatures represent: an iconic raptor, one of the biggest birds anywhere on Earth, brought back from the edge of extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bird was once found from northwestern Mexico to British Columbia and across the country as far east as Florida. Like many other species, it did not mix well with the civilization that colonized and remade the continent. Hunting, lead poisoning and habitat destruction took a seemingly irreversible toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, as the bird’s range shrank to a patch of wilderness in southern Central California, federal wildlife officials in 1967 declared it an endangered species. But the population continued to shrink, and by the early 1980s just over a dozen wild California condors remained. The Fish and Wildlife Service moved to take the few remaining wild birds into captivity — with the last captured in April 1987.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working with the San Diego and Los Angeles zoos, the agency launched an effort to breed condors with the aim of restoring them to the wild. In 1992, the program released a pair of condors back into their native range in Ventura County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So where are we today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of 2022, the Fish and Wildlife Service put \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/caco-world-2022.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the total population of California condors\u003c/a> — both free-flying and in captivity — at 561. The condors roosting on Kern County’s Blue Mountain this week — perhaps as many as 10 at a time — are among the 347 free-flying birds in the wild today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those include both captive-bred condors, like 811/Lulutti, and birds bred and reared entirely in the wild, like Condor 509. Free-flying flocks have been established in Southern and Central California, Arizona, Utah and northwestern Mexico. The newest wild releases are in Northern California, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a restoration effort involving the Yurok Tribe\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the overall success of the program to date, it’s far too early to assume the California condor has been saved. In late 2020, the Fish and Wildlife Service reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020-California-Condor-Population-Status.pdf\">309 free-flying condors had died since releases began in 1992 (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of death is listed for 213 of those birds, and it’s a catalog of all the many ways our world remains hostile to fragile life: 11 condors were shot, 19 more ran afoul of power lines, 9 died in a Monterey County wildfire. More than half, 107, died of lead poisoning, generally assumed to be the result of eating dead game contaminated by lead bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change will also inevitably present challenging odds for condors’ long-term survival. And that’s not all: Federal officials are currently racing to test a vaccine against \u003ca href=\"https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/newsroom/stakeholder-info/sa_by_date/sa-2023/ca-condor-hpai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an unusually deadly strain of avian influenza\u003c/a> that has spread through both wild and domestic flocks of many species of birds in California over the past year or so. The virus has already killed more than a dozen California condors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the condor’s future? Yes, uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its present? We’re still checking on the view from Blue Mountain, and we’re still amazed at the enormous feathered apparitions that’ve shown up on camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As many as 10 California condors made an appearance on an online wildfire camera positioned in the Sierra Nevada foothills northeast of Bakersfield.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1689887269,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":920},"headData":{"title":"Critically Endangered, but Not Shy: Camera Spots Bunch of Condors Just Hanging Out | KQED","description":"As many as 10 California condors made an appearance on an online wildfire camera positioned in the Sierra Nevada foothills northeast of Bakersfield.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Critically Endangered, but Not Shy: Camera Spots Bunch of Condors Just Hanging Out","datePublished":"2023-07-19T22:23:00.000Z","dateModified":"2023-07-20T21:07:49.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11956021/critically-endangered-but-not-shy-camera-spots-bunch-of-condors-just-hanging-out","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">U\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>p in the higher reaches of the southern Sierra Nevada foothills, a cool piece of modern technology is giving a close-up look at an ancient marvel of California’s skies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ALERTCalifornia/status/1681422597693771776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a wildfire camera\u003c/a> on a mountaintop 30 miles northeast of downtown Bakersfield captured a group of as many as 10 California condors roosting at a communications tower there. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bird in particular, a 7-year-old female designated alternately as Condor 811 or “Lulutti,” put on a bit of a show. She stared straight into the camera at one point to show off her naked, wrinkled, pinkish-red head. Later, she displayed her impressive wingspan and jet-black plumage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another member of the flock, a 14-year-old male prosaically named Condor 509, eyeballed the camera as the sun rose over the Sierra Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955988\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11955988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A large metal framed tower with several birds sitting on it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-PGE-CONDORS-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wildfire camera captured several California condors on Blue Mountain in Kern County on July 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(ALERTCalifornia/UC San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then he and others perching on steel towers festooned with cell transponders and other electronics glided off, presumably to look for a meal. Which, if you’re not familiar with condors’ gastronomic programming, consisted of dead meat. Later Wednesday, at least 14 of the birds had returned to the towers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(How do we know anything about these wild birds’ biographies? Each of them has a color-coded, numbered tag that allows the casual web condor watcher — or anyone lucky enough to spot Gymnogyps californianus on the wing — to confirm a bird’s identity, life history and family ties on \u003ca href=\"https://www.condorspotter.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an online database\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1681430243960299520"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency managing the long-running \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/program/california-condor-recovery\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Condor Recovery Program\u003c/a>, said the site is a known roosting spot for the birds. According to agency spokesperson Joanna Gilkeson, a condor hangout like the one on Blue Mountain “is not unusual. California condors are highly social birds and are known to congregate in this way.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he camera atop Kern County’s Blue Mountain, elevation 4,813 feet, is part of a network managed and put online by a UC San Diego project called \u003ca href=\"https://alertcalifornia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ALERTCalifornia\u003c/a>. The instrument shows the birds with startling clarity. But it barely hints at what a wonder those winged creatures represent: an iconic raptor, one of the biggest birds anywhere on Earth, brought back from the edge of extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bird was once found from northwestern Mexico to British Columbia and across the country as far east as Florida. Like many other species, it did not mix well with the civilization that colonized and remade the continent. Hunting, lead poisoning and habitat destruction took a seemingly irreversible toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, as the bird’s range shrank to a patch of wilderness in southern Central California, federal wildlife officials in 1967 declared it an endangered species. But the population continued to shrink, and by the early 1980s just over a dozen wild California condors remained. The Fish and Wildlife Service moved to take the few remaining wild birds into captivity — with the last captured in April 1987.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working with the San Diego and Los Angeles zoos, the agency launched an effort to breed condors with the aim of restoring them to the wild. In 1992, the program released a pair of condors back into their native range in Ventura County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So where are we today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of 2022, the Fish and Wildlife Service put \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/caco-world-2022.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the total population of California condors\u003c/a> — both free-flying and in captivity — at 561. The condors roosting on Kern County’s Blue Mountain this week — perhaps as many as 10 at a time — are among the 347 free-flying birds in the wild today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those include both captive-bred condors, like 811/Lulutti, and birds bred and reared entirely in the wild, like Condor 509. Free-flying flocks have been established in Southern and Central California, Arizona, Utah and northwestern Mexico. The newest wild releases are in Northern California, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a restoration effort involving the Yurok Tribe\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the overall success of the program to date, it’s far too early to assume the California condor has been saved. In late 2020, the Fish and Wildlife Service reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020-California-Condor-Population-Status.pdf\">309 free-flying condors had died since releases began in 1992 (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of death is listed for 213 of those birds, and it’s a catalog of all the many ways our world remains hostile to fragile life: 11 condors were shot, 19 more ran afoul of power lines, 9 died in a Monterey County wildfire. More than half, 107, died of lead poisoning, generally assumed to be the result of eating dead game contaminated by lead bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change will also inevitably present challenging odds for condors’ long-term survival. And that’s not all: Federal officials are currently racing to test a vaccine against \u003ca href=\"https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/newsroom/stakeholder-info/sa_by_date/sa-2023/ca-condor-hpai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an unusually deadly strain of avian influenza\u003c/a> that has spread through both wild and domestic flocks of many species of birds in California over the past year or so. The virus has already killed more than a dozen California condors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the condor’s future? Yes, uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its present? We’re still checking on the view from Blue Mountain, and we’re still amazed at the enormous feathered apparitions that’ve shown up on camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11956021/critically-endangered-but-not-shy-camera-spots-bunch-of-condors-just-hanging-out","authors":["222"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_2426","news_21635","news_18245","news_27626"],"featImg":"news_11955986","label":"news"},"news_11902873":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11902873","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11902873","score":null,"sort":[1643386504000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-sounds-of-california-from-the-comfort-of-your-couch","title":"The Sounds of the Bay Area: Escape With 8 Sonic Stories","publishDate":1643386504,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Curious | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":17986,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Screech! Chirp, chirp. Bwwwwaaaaaa. Hyphy!\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sounds of California are eclectic, and here at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>, we’re pretty big fans of noise. So we dug through the Bay Curious archives to celebrate the soundtrack of the Golden State, from the sounds that guide us home, to the people who brighten up our day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is your excuse to stay in bed, snuggle deeper into your couch, and join Bay Curious on a truly immersive experience for your ears. So put on your headphones, follow along on our Spotify playlist below, settle in and turn up the volume.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/3pnC5RuL20oLb74k2FoMt4?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11030282/why-are-bart-trains-so-loud\">\u003cstrong>Why are BART trains so loud?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425097\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"A BART train at Oakland's Coliseum station, where 40 to 60 youths took over a train car and robbed and beat passengers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-960x612.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-375x239.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BART train at Oakland's Coliseum station. \u003ccite>(Paul Sullivan/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Bay Area is full of sounds. But one sound, in particular, stood out to Bay Curious listener Eric Bauer: “Why does BART scream like a banshee?” he so vividly asked us. Eric’s no stranger to trains — he rode them all the time when he lived in Chicago. To figure out what makes the noises of our subway system so unique, we visited BART’s repair shop to ask the experts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881696/how-hyphy-came-to-define-bay-area-hip-hop\">\u003cstrong>'It's pure energy': How hyphy came to define Bay Area hip-hop\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882075\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882075\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E-40 at DeFremery Park in West Oakland, Oct. 12, 2018. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Welcome to perhaps the most energizing history lesson you’ll ever have: how the hyphy movement created a distinctly Bay Area sound. We’re joined by Pendarvis Harshaw, host of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Rightnowish podcast\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to answer Bay Curious listener Lauren Tankeh’s question on how hyphy music started, and what the movement represented for Bay culture. Requirements for this episode: “Gig,” not just dance, to the hyperactive up-tempo beats while you learn about the pioneers and legacy of this hip-hop subgenre.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11272504/foghorns-who-presses-the-play-button\">\u003cstrong>Foghorns: Who presses the play button?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11272505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11272505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"This Golden Gate Bridge fog horn points west on the concrete base of the bridge's south tower, guiding ships safely in the fog.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Golden Gate Bridge foghorn points west on the concrete base of the bridge's south tower, guiding ships safely in the fog. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Depending on where you live in the Bay Area, the sight of fog can also mean hearing foghorns. After Bay Curious listeners Andy MacKinnon and Jen Liu moved from San Francisco’s SOMA district to the Sunset, they realized foghorns were becoming a constant part of their lives — for better or for worse. They had so many questions for us, such as:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Where are these foghorns?\u003cbr>\n2. How many of them are there?\u003cbr>\n3. Why do we still use them despite technology like radar and GPS?\u003cbr>\n4. Who, or what, turns them on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We went out into the fog to help Andy and Jen get some much-needed answers.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719871/why-the-myth-of-the-san-francisco-accent-persists\">\u003cstrong>Why does the myth of the 'San Francisco accent' persist?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11720643\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11720643\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An accent is different from a word choice. It's about how a word is pronounced. \u003ccite>(Kelly Heigert/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Is there such a thing as a San Francisco accent?” That’s what Bay Curious listener Jonathan Morton wanted to know. When you think of New Yorkers, Bostonians or Texans, you might have a pretty good idea of a general accent, down to the rhythms and tones. But that gets harder to do with San Franciscans. In this episode, we dive deep into accents, the myth of the “Mission brogue,” and how naming just one accent in San Francisco actually says more about who has political power than how people speak.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795009/why-do-some-crosswalks-make-a-machine-gun-sound\">\u003cstrong>Why do some crosswalks make a machine-gun sound?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of the accessible pedestrian signals in San Francisco look like this. \u003ccite>(Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The official name for the sound is the rapid tick. But one Bay Curious listener asked why so many crosswalks in the Bay Area sound like a “machine gun,” as opposed to the more commonplace cuckoo-chirp signals. Find out how the rapid tick was designed and how it’s meant to ensure accessibility for all pedestrians.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">\u003cstrong>Why is San Francisco's Fillmore District no longer the 'Harlem of the West'?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11825842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43798_MOR-0681-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43798_MOR-0681-qut.jpg 497w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43798_MOR-0681-qut-160x129.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie with San Francisco Mayor George Christopher in 1957. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you were walking down San Francisco's Fillmore Street in the 1950s, chances are you might have run into any number of stars, from Billie Holiday to Ella Fitzgerald and Thelonious Monk. The Fillmore was known as the “Harlem of the West” for fostering a booming jazz scene and a vibrant Black community. “It was just magic,” said \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://marystallingsjazz.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">jazz singer Mary Stallings\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. These days, however, the Fillmore isn’t booming like it once was. In this story, which won a public voting round, we explore how the Fillmore came to be a cultural center, and why that ultimately changed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11185731/where-did-the-wild-parrots-of-san-francisco-come-from\">\u003cstrong>Where did the wild parrots of San Francisco come from?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187393\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The parrots have been spotted from the Embarcadero, all the way down to Sunnyvale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The famous parrots of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill. \u003ccite>(Patrick Buechner/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They can be found from the Ferry Building in San Francisco all the way south to Sunnyvale, but you’ll likely \u003cem>hear\u003c/em> the cherry-headed conures before you \u003cem>see\u003c/em> them. Wild parrots are not what you would expect to find atop Bay Area trees and traffic signals, and Bay Curious listener Colleen McClowry wanted to know how they became Bay residents. \"I think they’re probably not native to the city. But I’m interested to know how they got there,” Colleen asked. There are a lot of theories, and we start in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill to learn more about these colorful cuties.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755398/whats-it-like-to-navigate-the-bay-area-while-blind\">What's it like to navigate the Bay Area while blind?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11755401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Bryan Bashin, CEO of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, stands at a varnished wood podium in a blue suit, speaking at a gala put on for his organization.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Bashin, CEO of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, stands at a varnished wood lectern in a blue suit, speaking at a gala for the organization. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of LightHouse for the Blind)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This episode is a little different from most Bay Curious episodes. For this sonic experience, we’re joined by Sam Harnett and Chris Hoff, hosts of the podcast, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/\">\"The World According to Sound,\"\u003c/a> as they get a sense of what it’s like to navigate a chaotic city while blind. They’re guided by \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bryan Bashin, CEO of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, on his morning commute.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1643402610,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":1056},"headData":{"title":"The Sounds of the Bay Area: Escape With 8 Sonic Stories | KQED","description":"Screech! Chirp, chirp. Bwwwwaaaaaa. Hyphy! 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Chirp, chirp. Bwwwwaaaaaa. Hyphy!\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sounds of California are eclectic, and here at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>, we’re pretty big fans of noise. So we dug through the Bay Curious archives to celebrate the soundtrack of the Golden State, from the sounds that guide us home, to the people who brighten up our day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is your excuse to stay in bed, snuggle deeper into your couch, and join Bay Curious on a truly immersive experience for your ears. So put on your headphones, follow along on our Spotify playlist below, settle in and turn up the volume.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/3pnC5RuL20oLb74k2FoMt4?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11030282/why-are-bart-trains-so-loud\">\u003cstrong>Why are BART trains so loud?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425097\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"A BART train at Oakland's Coliseum station, where 40 to 60 youths took over a train car and robbed and beat passengers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-960x612.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-375x239.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BART train at Oakland's Coliseum station. \u003ccite>(Paul Sullivan/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Bay Area is full of sounds. But one sound, in particular, stood out to Bay Curious listener Eric Bauer: “Why does BART scream like a banshee?” he so vividly asked us. Eric’s no stranger to trains — he rode them all the time when he lived in Chicago. To figure out what makes the noises of our subway system so unique, we visited BART’s repair shop to ask the experts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881696/how-hyphy-came-to-define-bay-area-hip-hop\">\u003cstrong>'It's pure energy': How hyphy came to define Bay Area hip-hop\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882075\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882075\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E-40 at DeFremery Park in West Oakland, Oct. 12, 2018. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Welcome to perhaps the most energizing history lesson you’ll ever have: how the hyphy movement created a distinctly Bay Area sound. We’re joined by Pendarvis Harshaw, host of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Rightnowish podcast\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to answer Bay Curious listener Lauren Tankeh’s question on how hyphy music started, and what the movement represented for Bay culture. Requirements for this episode: “Gig,” not just dance, to the hyperactive up-tempo beats while you learn about the pioneers and legacy of this hip-hop subgenre.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11272504/foghorns-who-presses-the-play-button\">\u003cstrong>Foghorns: Who presses the play button?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11272505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11272505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"This Golden Gate Bridge fog horn points west on the concrete base of the bridge's south tower, guiding ships safely in the fog.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23445_161219_GGFoghorns_bhs07-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Golden Gate Bridge foghorn points west on the concrete base of the bridge's south tower, guiding ships safely in the fog. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Depending on where you live in the Bay Area, the sight of fog can also mean hearing foghorns. After Bay Curious listeners Andy MacKinnon and Jen Liu moved from San Francisco’s SOMA district to the Sunset, they realized foghorns were becoming a constant part of their lives — for better or for worse. They had so many questions for us, such as:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Where are these foghorns?\u003cbr>\n2. How many of them are there?\u003cbr>\n3. Why do we still use them despite technology like radar and GPS?\u003cbr>\n4. Who, or what, turns them on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We went out into the fog to help Andy and Jen get some much-needed answers.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719871/why-the-myth-of-the-san-francisco-accent-persists\">\u003cstrong>Why does the myth of the 'San Francisco accent' persist?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11720643\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11720643\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/BayCurious_opt1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An accent is different from a word choice. It's about how a word is pronounced. \u003ccite>(Kelly Heigert/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Is there such a thing as a San Francisco accent?” That’s what Bay Curious listener Jonathan Morton wanted to know. When you think of New Yorkers, Bostonians or Texans, you might have a pretty good idea of a general accent, down to the rhythms and tones. But that gets harder to do with San Franciscans. In this episode, we dive deep into accents, the myth of the “Mission brogue,” and how naming just one accent in San Francisco actually says more about who has political power than how people speak.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795009/why-do-some-crosswalks-make-a-machine-gun-sound\">\u003cstrong>Why do some crosswalks make a machine-gun sound?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/1024px-PedestrianSignalPushButton.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of the accessible pedestrian signals in San Francisco look like this. \u003ccite>(Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The official name for the sound is the rapid tick. But one Bay Curious listener asked why so many crosswalks in the Bay Area sound like a “machine gun,” as opposed to the more commonplace cuckoo-chirp signals. Find out how the rapid tick was designed and how it’s meant to ensure accessibility for all pedestrians.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">\u003cstrong>Why is San Francisco's Fillmore District no longer the 'Harlem of the West'?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11825842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43798_MOR-0681-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43798_MOR-0681-qut.jpg 497w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43798_MOR-0681-qut-160x129.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie with San Francisco Mayor George Christopher in 1957. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you were walking down San Francisco's Fillmore Street in the 1950s, chances are you might have run into any number of stars, from Billie Holiday to Ella Fitzgerald and Thelonious Monk. The Fillmore was known as the “Harlem of the West” for fostering a booming jazz scene and a vibrant Black community. “It was just magic,” said \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://marystallingsjazz.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">jazz singer Mary Stallings\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. These days, however, the Fillmore isn’t booming like it once was. In this story, which won a public voting round, we explore how the Fillmore came to be a cultural center, and why that ultimately changed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11185731/where-did-the-wild-parrots-of-san-francisco-come-from\">\u003cstrong>Where did the wild parrots of San Francisco come from?\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187393\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The parrots have been spotted from the Embarcadero, all the way down to Sunnyvale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/2924064112_df11d9e7ec_o-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The famous parrots of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill. \u003ccite>(Patrick Buechner/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They can be found from the Ferry Building in San Francisco all the way south to Sunnyvale, but you’ll likely \u003cem>hear\u003c/em> the cherry-headed conures before you \u003cem>see\u003c/em> them. Wild parrots are not what you would expect to find atop Bay Area trees and traffic signals, and Bay Curious listener Colleen McClowry wanted to know how they became Bay residents. \"I think they’re probably not native to the city. But I’m interested to know how they got there,” Colleen asked. There are a lot of theories, and we start in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill to learn more about these colorful cuties.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755398/whats-it-like-to-navigate-the-bay-area-while-blind\">What's it like to navigate the Bay Area while blind?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11755401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Bryan Bashin, CEO of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, stands at a varnished wood podium in a blue suit, speaking at a gala put on for his organization.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/LH18BlindAmbition-154.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Bashin, CEO of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, stands at a varnished wood lectern in a blue suit, speaking at a gala for the organization. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of LightHouse for the Blind)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This episode is a little different from most Bay Curious episodes. For this sonic experience, we’re joined by Sam Harnett and Chris Hoff, hosts of the podcast, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/\">\"The World According to Sound,\"\u003c/a> as they get a sense of what it’s like to navigate a chaotic city while blind. They’re guided by \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bryan Bashin, CEO of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, on his morning commute.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11902873/the-sounds-of-california-from-the-comfort-of-your-couch","authors":["11793"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_269","news_1386","news_18426","news_2426","news_30578","news_30573","news_30577","news_22210","news_30575","news_29693","news_30572","news_20691","news_30576","news_20234","news_30574","news_28946","news_38","news_30579","news_519"],"featImg":"news_11902897","label":"news_17986"},"news_11880268":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11880268","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11880268","score":null,"sort":[1625269227000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"latinx-artists-promote-covid-19-vaccination-saying-goodbye-to-roadrunner-birds-helping-ca-farms","title":"Latinx Artists Promote Covid-19 Vaccination, Saying Goodbye to 'Roadrunner,' Birds Helping CA Farms","publishDate":1625269227,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report Magazine | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879912/come-on-papi-la-vacuna-a-new-arts-campaign-aims-to-boost-vaccination-rates-in-san-joaquin-valley\">\u003cb>'Come on Papi, La Vacuna!': New Arts Campaign to Boost San Joaquin Valley Vaccine Rates\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than 60 percent of Latinos in some Central Valley counties are still not vaccinated. The numbers are even more dramatic for younger folks, especially teens and those in their 20s -- and for indigenous farmworkers. Now former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, along with famed Ranchera singer Carmencristina Moreno and other musical groups, are trying to get the word out through original songs, radio dramas, and poems in Spanish, English, and Mixteco. Sasha talks with Hugo Morales, founder of Radio Bilingüe, and Amy Kitchener, of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, about the new campaign, with excerpts from the music and poetry.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11880066/he-wanted-to-move-forward-remembering-traveling-notary-athlete-tony-escobar\">\u003cb>‘Always On the Move:’ Remembering Traveling Notary, Athlete Tony Escobar\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“He was a shark in many ways. He didn't want to move backwards. He just always wanted to move forward.” That’s how Tony Escobar’s son describes his dad, who died of Covid-19 earlier this year. Tony, who immigrated to San Francisco from Nicaragua, was 68 years old. One of his many jobs was as a traveling notary. His family thinks that’s why he got sick. For them, it was heartbreaking to see Tony -- a star athlete from Mission High School, salesman and all-around family man -- forced to stop moving. As part of our ongoing series on remembering Californians who’ve died from Covid-19, KQED’s Brian Watt and Alexander Gonzales bring us the voices of Tony's family members paying tribute to a man they called \"The Energizer Bunny.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879719/owls-swallows-and-bluebirds-the-secret-allies-of-bay-area-farmers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>Owls, Swallows, and Bluebirds: Secret Allies of California Farmers\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Maybe you’re one of the people who started noticing birds more during the pandemic. A lot of us spent time in our yards, or looking out windows, seeing these creatures in a new way. Even though we’re noticing more, there are fewer birds now than there were 50 years ago. For her series California Foodways, Lisa Morehouse visits farms in Napa and near Watsonville to learn how farmers can help these birds, and some new research that shows how those birds are helping farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1662485012,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":395},"headData":{"title":"Latinx Artists Promote Covid-19 Vaccination, Saying Goodbye to 'Roadrunner,' Birds Helping CA Farms | KQED","description":"Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast. ‘Come on Papi, La Vacuna!’: New Arts Campaign to Boost San Joaquin Valley Vaccine Rates More than 60 percent of Latinos in some Central Valley counties are still not vaccinated. 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The numbers are even more dramatic for younger folks, especially teens and those in their 20s -- and for indigenous farmworkers. Now former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, along with famed Ranchera singer Carmencristina Moreno and other musical groups, are trying to get the word out through original songs, radio dramas, and poems in Spanish, English, and Mixteco. Sasha talks with Hugo Morales, founder of Radio Bilingüe, and Amy Kitchener, of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, about the new campaign, with excerpts from the music and poetry.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11880066/he-wanted-to-move-forward-remembering-traveling-notary-athlete-tony-escobar\">\u003cb>‘Always On the Move:’ Remembering Traveling Notary, Athlete Tony Escobar\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“He was a shark in many ways. He didn't want to move backwards. He just always wanted to move forward.” That’s how Tony Escobar’s son describes his dad, who died of Covid-19 earlier this year. Tony, who immigrated to San Francisco from Nicaragua, was 68 years old. One of his many jobs was as a traveling notary. His family thinks that’s why he got sick. For them, it was heartbreaking to see Tony -- a star athlete from Mission High School, salesman and all-around family man -- forced to stop moving. As part of our ongoing series on remembering Californians who’ve died from Covid-19, KQED’s Brian Watt and Alexander Gonzales bring us the voices of Tony's family members paying tribute to a man they called \"The Energizer Bunny.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879719/owls-swallows-and-bluebirds-the-secret-allies-of-bay-area-farmers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cb>Owls, Swallows, and Bluebirds: Secret Allies of California Farmers\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Maybe you’re one of the people who started noticing birds more during the pandemic. A lot of us spent time in our yards, or looking out windows, seeing these creatures in a new way. Even though we’re noticing more, there are fewer birds now than there were 50 years ago. For her series California Foodways, Lisa Morehouse visits farms in Napa and near Watsonville to learn how farmers can help these birds, and some new research that shows how those birds are helping farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11880268/latinx-artists-promote-covid-19-vaccination-saying-goodbye-to-roadrunner-birds-helping-ca-farms","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_72","news_26731"],"categories":["news_21291"],"tags":["news_29216","news_2426","news_29650","news_29566","news_29649","news_25409","news_2520","news_22012","news_38","news_20035"],"featImg":"news_11880219","label":"source_news_11880268"},"news_11879719":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11879719","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11879719","score":null,"sort":[1625230847000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"owls-swallows-and-bluebirds-the-secret-allies-of-bay-area-farmers","title":"Owls, Swallows and Bluebirds: The Secret Allies of Farmers","publishDate":1625230847,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Owls, Swallows and Bluebirds: The Secret Allies of Farmers | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Dennis Tamura never set out to be a bird-watcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been a farmer for over 35 years, and he and his wife grow organic vegetables and flowers on Blue Heron Farms outside Watsonville. But birds have become a part of the farm’s ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 15 years ago, a bird-loving neighbor put up small wooden bird boxes on the fence posts that line Blue Heron Farms, and Tamura just started noticing the tree swallows and Western bluebirds that came to visit. Today, he points out a fluffy baby tree swallow, its comically large yellow mouth peeking out of a hole in the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parents come by and you’ll see that their mouth is always wide open. ‘Hey, come on! I’m hungry!’ ” he said with a laugh. “It’s always kind of fun to watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880219\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11880219 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50180_IMG_6868-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands in a field looking off camera.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50180_IMG_6868-qut.jpg 1919w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50180_IMG_6868-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50180_IMG_6868-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50180_IMG_6868-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50180_IMG_6868-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmer Dennis Tamura stands in one of his farm’s fields on June 10, 2021. Tamura says having the barn owls, tree swallows and Western bluebirds nest in boxes on his farm has done more than just offer pest control. They help him see his farm more deeply. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Their habit is to just fly and dart around pretty low because they’re snagging insects on the fly. And then they swoop in and feed — boom — immediately, and then they turn around and go back out,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like he described, a handsome tree swallow, with its white belly and iridescent blue back, flew low over the crops, then turned toward a bird box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They feed them instantaneously. It’s pretty interesting,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without landing, the parent put an insect in the baby’s mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One insect Tamura worries about is the flea beetle, which loves eating plants from the Brassica family, like broccoli and bok choy. Some of the damage caused by the flea beetles is just cosmetic, he said. “But sometimes they can outright kill plants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right around this time of year, when the birds begin to leave, he said, “I notice that there’s a lot more flea beetle damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the birds help with pest insects, and they’re getting something back from the farm.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Important Allies\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Those bird boxes are simple, but they’re important. \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silent-skies-billions-of-north-american-birds-have-vanished/\">Pesticide use and habitat\u003c/a> loss shrunk the bird population in North America by almost\u003ca href=\"https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6461/120\"> 3 billion\u003c/a> since 1970. That’s nearly a 30% drop. The whole ecosystem feels that loss, since birds pollinate plants, and, like on this farm, control pest insects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Birds like tree swallows and Western bluebirds would naturally build nests in tree cavities, but the plywood boxes all over the farm are a good substitute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also work well for barn owls. In his barn, Tamura pointed out the one box where barn owls have nested the last eight years or so, and help control his top rodent problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of gophers. I mean, we trap them but there’s no way we’re going to get them all,” Tamura said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880227\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1821px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11880227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50182_IMG_6870-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A small colorful bird flies its way to a bird box.\" width=\"1821\" height=\"1215\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50182_IMG_6870-qut.jpg 1821w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50182_IMG_6870-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50182_IMG_6870-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50182_IMG_6870-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50182_IMG_6870-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1821px) 100vw, 1821px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Blue Heron Farms, an adult tree swallow feeds its baby on June 10, 2021. The swallows swoop low over the fields picking off insects mid-flight. Often, they’re feeding their young flea beetles, insects that can cause damage to crops. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>White droppings and clumps of regurgitated gopher cover the barn floor. Owls eat their prey whole and cough up the fur and bones, which they can’t digest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking a look at the mess left behind by the birds, Tamura said, “Well, they eat a lot of gophers. It’s pretty astounding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='environment']Jo Ann Baumgartner runs \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildfarmalliance.org/\">Wild Farm Alliance\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps farmers support, and benefit from, wild nature. The organization has developed a \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5f2c1d71822c4cb8a9ebade1206fc0d5\">Songbird Farm Trail\u003c/a> to map locations with bird boxes, monitor changes in bird population and encourage more participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to see a million bird boxes,” she said. She added little metal tags to the bird boxes on Blue Heron Farm, and will observe bird behavior here. Monitoring bird life in boxes will add to the growing citizen science and academic research about beneficial birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These studies used to be common, Baumgartner said. “Back in the 1880s, the precursor to the USDA started studying how important birds were for eating pest insects and rodents. They asked farmers to shoot birds, which you could never do today, and pickle their stomachs and mail them in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These researchers studied the birds’ stomach contents, she explains, which led to a flurry of research papers published afterward on this topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When pesticides gained wide use, Baumgartner said, these studies fell by the wayside. But, over the last two decades, researchers have started to study once again the benefits birds provide to farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Johnson, professor at Humboldt State University, spends his days studying the relationship between birds and farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Matt Johnson, professor at Humboldt State University\"]‘A lot of that habitat is gone and has been replaced by vineyards.’[/pullquote]He said that in Napa County, where he conducts his research, “the \u003ca href=\"https://www.suscolcouncil.org/about-us/firstpeopleshistory/\">Wappo\u003c/a> were the indigenous people here. They managed this place with a lot of traditional fire, keeping it an open grassland, with huge oaks that the first European colonizers waxed poetic about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added, “a lot of that habitat is gone and has been replaced by vineyards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880232\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1863px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11880232\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50177_IMG_5369-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands outside, next to a bird box. On one hand, he has his cellphone, on the other one he holds a very long pole.\" width=\"1863\" height=\"1243\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50177_IMG_5369-qut.jpg 1863w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50177_IMG_5369-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50177_IMG_5369-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50177_IMG_5369-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50177_IMG_5369-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1863px) 100vw, 1863px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Johnson checks on his phone the live images transmitted from a GoPro camera to monitor the activity of the barn owls inside the bird boxes on March 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson drove through a vineyard in American Canyon, stopping to check owl boxes for nests or eggs. He got out of his truck and walked towards an owl box about 15 feet off the ground and pointed out the scratches on the outside of the hole, a good sign that there’d been recent activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quietly approaching the box, he extended a painter’s pole with a GoPro camera attached to the top, which connects to his phone. Slipping the GoPro into the box, Johnson looked at his phone to get a view of what’s inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Male and female,” he whispered. “I can see an egg underneath the female. I’m going to get out of there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People have built birdhouses for centuries, and Johnson says that farmers from Chile to South Africa put up barn owl boxes because they’ve seen barn owls eat rodents on their farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t necessarily need a lot of scientific evidence to show that this is working. They’re seeing it on the ground,” he said. The academic research on the impact of owls on farms, however, was slim, so Johnson began the \u003ca href=\"https://www.owlresearchinstitute.org/barn-owl-research\">Barn Owl Research Project\u003c/a> in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we have some scientific evidence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880228\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11880228 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50186_IMG_6722-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Images of barn owls in their boxes captured by the team at Barn Owl Research Humboldt State University.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50186_IMG_6722-qut.jpg 1919w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50186_IMG_6722-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50186_IMG_6722-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50186_IMG_6722-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50186_IMG_6722-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Johnson’s research team places cameras near the bird boxes it manages to keep track of the behavior of the birds. This is the inside of one of the boxes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matt Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson’s team installed infrared cameras in owl boxes all over Napa Valley to monitor what owls hunted at night, and placed GPS trackers on owls to see where they hunted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Matt Johnson, professor at Humboldt State University\"]‘They don’t necessarily need a lot of scientific evidence to show that this is working. They’re seeing it on the ground.’[/pullquote]“Our estimate is that a family of barn owls removes 3,400 rodents from the landscape every year,” Johnson said. “So some of these farms, like this one that has 20 occupied boxes, you’re talking about 70,000 rodents removed every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their research showed that one-third of these rodents came directly from vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This vineyard was started by the man who helped put California wines on the map.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-’70s, Miljenko “Mike” Grgich was the winemaker for Chateau Montelena, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vivino.com/wine-news/the-day-california-wine-beat-the-french-and-shocked-the-world#:~:text=The%20Day%20California%20Wine%20Beat%20the%20French%20and%20Shocked%20the%20World,-By%20Michelle%20Locke&text=In%201976%2C%20Napa%20Valley's%20Chateau,wine%2C%E2%80%9D%20declared%20Robert%20Parker.\">the vineyard that beat French wine\u003c/a> in a taste test that became known as the Judgement of Paris. He went on to start \u003ca href=\"https://www.grgich.com/our-story/\">Grgich Hills Estate\u003c/a>, where his nephew, \u003ca href=\"https://www.grgich.com/our-story/people/\">Ivo Jeramaz\u003c/a>, continues the winemaking tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Johnson checked the barn owl boxes, Jeramaz walked by and said he’d love to add more to his vineyards. Johnson explained that after analyzing this season’s data, his team can point out new locations that owls would probably like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Conservation With People’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A few weeks later, Johnson met up with three grad students at another Napa vineyard to collect data and place ID bands on barn owls to study them for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They walked down to a box, wearing headlamps. First, they checked the owl box. Next, they set a trap for an adult returning to feed its young. The box is designed, Johnson explained, so that when an owl enters it, a little door swings shut and LED lights turn on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a short wait, they all see movement. “So an adult owl flew in,” said Johnson. “We think it might be the female. She landed on the box and she’s … .”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he finished his sentence, the light turned on. “Oh, there she is. She’s inside! Let’s go!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team quickly walked down to the box, set up a ladder and listened in to the parent feeding baby owls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making sure the adult didn’t escape from the side door, Johnson asked one of the graduate students to shine a light inside the box while he reached in with a gloved hand to grab the owl’s feet and pull it from the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owl appeared, with its white wings spread wide out from its heart-shaped face. They put a little hood over its head to calm it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880230\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11880230 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50178_IMG_5447-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person ties an ID band around the leg of a barn owl at night.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50178_IMG_5447-qut.jpg 1919w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50178_IMG_5447-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50178_IMG_5447-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50178_IMG_5447-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50178_IMG_5447-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Echávez, member of Matt Johnson’s research team, attaches a USGS metal ID band on a barn owl on March 30, 2021. After carefully taking measurements, the team makes sure to return each owl to its birdbox. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they got back to the truck, graduate student \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.humboldt.edu/graduate-students/laura-ech%C3%A1vez\">Laura Echávez\u003c/a> said that the next step is to take a metal band issued by the U.S. Geological Survey and place it around the foot of the owl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She held the owl with confidence and tenderness, talking to it softly as she secured the metal band. “Can you lift your head a little buddy?” she said. “There, perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, after about 20 minutes of taking measurements and photos for their research, the team returned the owl to the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson hopes his team’s research can highlight the reciprocal relationship between farmers and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barn owls are one species that depend on oak trees, using the big cavities around the tree’s trunk to build nests. But with the growth of the vineyards and other development, many oak trees in this valley have disappeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When farmers put up these nesting boxes, it’s amazing,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an old conservation model where the idea is that we need to protect nature from people, and just lock it away and keep people out,” he explained. The flip side would be conserving nature exclusively for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Neither of those is really quite right. I think we should think about conservation \u003ci>with\u003c/i> people, you know, understanding that we are part of the ecosystem and we do things that negatively affect some species,” Johnson said. “We can also do some things that help species survive and they in return can help us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880229\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11880229 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50187_IMG_7141-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of infant owls gather inside a birdbox.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50187_IMG_7141-qut.jpg 1919w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50187_IMG_7141-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50187_IMG_7141-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50187_IMG_7141-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50187_IMG_7141-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researcher Matt Johnson explains that through his research he’s learned more about how much birds contribute to the well-being of humans, and ways humans can give back. A group of infant barn owls gather inside one of the bird boxes, in an image captured by the Humboldt State University barn owl research team. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matt Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘They’re Welcome to Be Here’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back at Blue Heron Farms outside Watsonville, farmer Dennis Tamura says that having the barn owls, tree swallows and Western bluebirds nest in boxes on his farm has done more than just offer pest control — they help him see his farm more deeply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seeing what you’re looking at, it’s different than just looking and watching,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re welcome to be here because there’s plenty of food, as far as I can tell. For me, they just enhance the whole environment. And obviously they do some help for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, I pointed out, he provides a home for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah,” he said with a laugh, “I guess you could say that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That seems like a pretty fair trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was produced in collaboration with the\u003ca href=\"http://thefern.org/\"> Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>, a nonprofit, investigative news organization. The author produced the story while in residence at \u003ca href=\"https://tskw.org/#\">The Studios of Key West\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Both farmers and researchers are learning more about the role birds can play in farms, like controlling pests. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1701974790,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":60,"wordCount":2294},"headData":{"title":"Owls, Swallows and Bluebirds: The Secret Allies of Farmers | KQED","description":"Both farmers and researchers are learning more about the role birds can play in farms, like controlling pests. ","ogTitle":"Owls, Swallows and Bluebirds: The Secret Allies of Farmers","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Owls, Swallows and Bluebirds: The Secret Allies of Farmers","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Owls, Swallows and Bluebirds: The Secret Allies of Farmers","datePublished":"2021-07-02T13:00:47.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-07T18:46:30.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"The California Report Magazine","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/news/program/the-california-report-magazine","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/437367f6-7cb4-43cf-b3fb-ad5901800b41/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"path":"/news/11879719/owls-swallows-and-bluebirds-the-secret-allies-of-bay-area-farmers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Dennis Tamura never set out to be a bird-watcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been a farmer for over 35 years, and he and his wife grow organic vegetables and flowers on Blue Heron Farms outside Watsonville. But birds have become a part of the farm’s ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 15 years ago, a bird-loving neighbor put up small wooden bird boxes on the fence posts that line Blue Heron Farms, and Tamura just started noticing the tree swallows and Western bluebirds that came to visit. Today, he points out a fluffy baby tree swallow, its comically large yellow mouth peeking out of a hole in the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parents come by and you’ll see that their mouth is always wide open. ‘Hey, come on! I’m hungry!’ ” he said with a laugh. “It’s always kind of fun to watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880219\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11880219 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50180_IMG_6868-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands in a field looking off camera.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50180_IMG_6868-qut.jpg 1919w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50180_IMG_6868-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50180_IMG_6868-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50180_IMG_6868-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50180_IMG_6868-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmer Dennis Tamura stands in one of his farm’s fields on June 10, 2021. Tamura says having the barn owls, tree swallows and Western bluebirds nest in boxes on his farm has done more than just offer pest control. They help him see his farm more deeply. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Their habit is to just fly and dart around pretty low because they’re snagging insects on the fly. And then they swoop in and feed — boom — immediately, and then they turn around and go back out,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like he described, a handsome tree swallow, with its white belly and iridescent blue back, flew low over the crops, then turned toward a bird box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They feed them instantaneously. It’s pretty interesting,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without landing, the parent put an insect in the baby’s mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One insect Tamura worries about is the flea beetle, which loves eating plants from the Brassica family, like broccoli and bok choy. Some of the damage caused by the flea beetles is just cosmetic, he said. “But sometimes they can outright kill plants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right around this time of year, when the birds begin to leave, he said, “I notice that there’s a lot more flea beetle damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the birds help with pest insects, and they’re getting something back from the farm.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Important Allies\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Those bird boxes are simple, but they’re important. \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silent-skies-billions-of-north-american-birds-have-vanished/\">Pesticide use and habitat\u003c/a> loss shrunk the bird population in North America by almost\u003ca href=\"https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6461/120\"> 3 billion\u003c/a> since 1970. That’s nearly a 30% drop. The whole ecosystem feels that loss, since birds pollinate plants, and, like on this farm, control pest insects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Birds like tree swallows and Western bluebirds would naturally build nests in tree cavities, but the plywood boxes all over the farm are a good substitute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also work well for barn owls. In his barn, Tamura pointed out the one box where barn owls have nested the last eight years or so, and help control his top rodent problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of gophers. I mean, we trap them but there’s no way we’re going to get them all,” Tamura said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880227\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1821px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11880227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50182_IMG_6870-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A small colorful bird flies its way to a bird box.\" width=\"1821\" height=\"1215\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50182_IMG_6870-qut.jpg 1821w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50182_IMG_6870-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50182_IMG_6870-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50182_IMG_6870-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50182_IMG_6870-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1821px) 100vw, 1821px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Blue Heron Farms, an adult tree swallow feeds its baby on June 10, 2021. The swallows swoop low over the fields picking off insects mid-flight. Often, they’re feeding their young flea beetles, insects that can cause damage to crops. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>White droppings and clumps of regurgitated gopher cover the barn floor. Owls eat their prey whole and cough up the fur and bones, which they can’t digest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking a look at the mess left behind by the birds, Tamura said, “Well, they eat a lot of gophers. It’s pretty astounding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"environment"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Jo Ann Baumgartner runs \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildfarmalliance.org/\">Wild Farm Alliance\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps farmers support, and benefit from, wild nature. The organization has developed a \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5f2c1d71822c4cb8a9ebade1206fc0d5\">Songbird Farm Trail\u003c/a> to map locations with bird boxes, monitor changes in bird population and encourage more participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to see a million bird boxes,” she said. She added little metal tags to the bird boxes on Blue Heron Farm, and will observe bird behavior here. Monitoring bird life in boxes will add to the growing citizen science and academic research about beneficial birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These studies used to be common, Baumgartner said. “Back in the 1880s, the precursor to the USDA started studying how important birds were for eating pest insects and rodents. They asked farmers to shoot birds, which you could never do today, and pickle their stomachs and mail them in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These researchers studied the birds’ stomach contents, she explains, which led to a flurry of research papers published afterward on this topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When pesticides gained wide use, Baumgartner said, these studies fell by the wayside. But, over the last two decades, researchers have started to study once again the benefits birds provide to farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Johnson, professor at Humboldt State University, spends his days studying the relationship between birds and farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘A lot of that habitat is gone and has been replaced by vineyards.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Matt Johnson, professor at Humboldt State University","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He said that in Napa County, where he conducts his research, “the \u003ca href=\"https://www.suscolcouncil.org/about-us/firstpeopleshistory/\">Wappo\u003c/a> were the indigenous people here. They managed this place with a lot of traditional fire, keeping it an open grassland, with huge oaks that the first European colonizers waxed poetic about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added, “a lot of that habitat is gone and has been replaced by vineyards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880232\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1863px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11880232\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50177_IMG_5369-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands outside, next to a bird box. On one hand, he has his cellphone, on the other one he holds a very long pole.\" width=\"1863\" height=\"1243\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50177_IMG_5369-qut.jpg 1863w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50177_IMG_5369-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50177_IMG_5369-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50177_IMG_5369-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50177_IMG_5369-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1863px) 100vw, 1863px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Johnson checks on his phone the live images transmitted from a GoPro camera to monitor the activity of the barn owls inside the bird boxes on March 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson drove through a vineyard in American Canyon, stopping to check owl boxes for nests or eggs. He got out of his truck and walked towards an owl box about 15 feet off the ground and pointed out the scratches on the outside of the hole, a good sign that there’d been recent activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quietly approaching the box, he extended a painter’s pole with a GoPro camera attached to the top, which connects to his phone. Slipping the GoPro into the box, Johnson looked at his phone to get a view of what’s inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Male and female,” he whispered. “I can see an egg underneath the female. I’m going to get out of there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People have built birdhouses for centuries, and Johnson says that farmers from Chile to South Africa put up barn owl boxes because they’ve seen barn owls eat rodents on their farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t necessarily need a lot of scientific evidence to show that this is working. They’re seeing it on the ground,” he said. The academic research on the impact of owls on farms, however, was slim, so Johnson began the \u003ca href=\"https://www.owlresearchinstitute.org/barn-owl-research\">Barn Owl Research Project\u003c/a> in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we have some scientific evidence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880228\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11880228 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50186_IMG_6722-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Images of barn owls in their boxes captured by the team at Barn Owl Research Humboldt State University.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50186_IMG_6722-qut.jpg 1919w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50186_IMG_6722-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50186_IMG_6722-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50186_IMG_6722-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50186_IMG_6722-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Johnson’s research team places cameras near the bird boxes it manages to keep track of the behavior of the birds. This is the inside of one of the boxes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matt Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson’s team installed infrared cameras in owl boxes all over Napa Valley to monitor what owls hunted at night, and placed GPS trackers on owls to see where they hunted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘They don’t necessarily need a lot of scientific evidence to show that this is working. They’re seeing it on the ground.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Matt Johnson, professor at Humboldt State University","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Our estimate is that a family of barn owls removes 3,400 rodents from the landscape every year,” Johnson said. “So some of these farms, like this one that has 20 occupied boxes, you’re talking about 70,000 rodents removed every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their research showed that one-third of these rodents came directly from vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This vineyard was started by the man who helped put California wines on the map.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-’70s, Miljenko “Mike” Grgich was the winemaker for Chateau Montelena, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vivino.com/wine-news/the-day-california-wine-beat-the-french-and-shocked-the-world#:~:text=The%20Day%20California%20Wine%20Beat%20the%20French%20and%20Shocked%20the%20World,-By%20Michelle%20Locke&text=In%201976%2C%20Napa%20Valley's%20Chateau,wine%2C%E2%80%9D%20declared%20Robert%20Parker.\">the vineyard that beat French wine\u003c/a> in a taste test that became known as the Judgement of Paris. He went on to start \u003ca href=\"https://www.grgich.com/our-story/\">Grgich Hills Estate\u003c/a>, where his nephew, \u003ca href=\"https://www.grgich.com/our-story/people/\">Ivo Jeramaz\u003c/a>, continues the winemaking tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Johnson checked the barn owl boxes, Jeramaz walked by and said he’d love to add more to his vineyards. Johnson explained that after analyzing this season’s data, his team can point out new locations that owls would probably like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Conservation With People’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A few weeks later, Johnson met up with three grad students at another Napa vineyard to collect data and place ID bands on barn owls to study them for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They walked down to a box, wearing headlamps. First, they checked the owl box. Next, they set a trap for an adult returning to feed its young. The box is designed, Johnson explained, so that when an owl enters it, a little door swings shut and LED lights turn on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a short wait, they all see movement. “So an adult owl flew in,” said Johnson. “We think it might be the female. She landed on the box and she’s … .”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he finished his sentence, the light turned on. “Oh, there she is. She’s inside! Let’s go!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team quickly walked down to the box, set up a ladder and listened in to the parent feeding baby owls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making sure the adult didn’t escape from the side door, Johnson asked one of the graduate students to shine a light inside the box while he reached in with a gloved hand to grab the owl’s feet and pull it from the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owl appeared, with its white wings spread wide out from its heart-shaped face. They put a little hood over its head to calm it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880230\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11880230 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50178_IMG_5447-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person ties an ID band around the leg of a barn owl at night.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50178_IMG_5447-qut.jpg 1919w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50178_IMG_5447-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50178_IMG_5447-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50178_IMG_5447-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50178_IMG_5447-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Echávez, member of Matt Johnson’s research team, attaches a USGS metal ID band on a barn owl on March 30, 2021. After carefully taking measurements, the team makes sure to return each owl to its birdbox. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they got back to the truck, graduate student \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.humboldt.edu/graduate-students/laura-ech%C3%A1vez\">Laura Echávez\u003c/a> said that the next step is to take a metal band issued by the U.S. Geological Survey and place it around the foot of the owl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She held the owl with confidence and tenderness, talking to it softly as she secured the metal band. “Can you lift your head a little buddy?” she said. “There, perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, after about 20 minutes of taking measurements and photos for their research, the team returned the owl to the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson hopes his team’s research can highlight the reciprocal relationship between farmers and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barn owls are one species that depend on oak trees, using the big cavities around the tree’s trunk to build nests. But with the growth of the vineyards and other development, many oak trees in this valley have disappeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When farmers put up these nesting boxes, it’s amazing,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an old conservation model where the idea is that we need to protect nature from people, and just lock it away and keep people out,” he explained. The flip side would be conserving nature exclusively for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Neither of those is really quite right. I think we should think about conservation \u003ci>with\u003c/i> people, you know, understanding that we are part of the ecosystem and we do things that negatively affect some species,” Johnson said. “We can also do some things that help species survive and they in return can help us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880229\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1919px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11880229 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50187_IMG_7141-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of infant owls gather inside a birdbox.\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50187_IMG_7141-qut.jpg 1919w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50187_IMG_7141-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50187_IMG_7141-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50187_IMG_7141-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50187_IMG_7141-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researcher Matt Johnson explains that through his research he’s learned more about how much birds contribute to the well-being of humans, and ways humans can give back. A group of infant barn owls gather inside one of the bird boxes, in an image captured by the Humboldt State University barn owl research team. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matt Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘They’re Welcome to Be Here’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back at Blue Heron Farms outside Watsonville, farmer Dennis Tamura says that having the barn owls, tree swallows and Western bluebirds nest in boxes on his farm has done more than just offer pest control — they help him see his farm more deeply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seeing what you’re looking at, it’s different than just looking and watching,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re welcome to be here because there’s plenty of food, as far as I can tell. For me, they just enhance the whole environment. And obviously they do some help for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, I pointed out, he provides a home for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah,” he said with a laugh, “I guess you could say that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That seems like a pretty fair trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was produced in collaboration with the\u003ca href=\"http://thefern.org/\"> Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>, a nonprofit, investigative news organization. The author produced the story while in residence at \u003ca href=\"https://tskw.org/#\">The Studios of Key West\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11879719/owls-swallows-and-bluebirds-the-secret-allies-of-bay-area-farmers","authors":["3229"],"programs":["news_72","news_26731"],"series":["news_17045"],"categories":["news_19906","news_24114","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_2426","news_18538","news_28519","news_21074","news_20023","news_18163","news_28199","news_6565","news_29648","news_20851","news_3800","news_1275"],"featImg":"news_11880216","label":"source_news_11879719"},"news_11804822":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11804822","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11804822","score":null,"sort":[1583285711000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-birding-in-the-bay-area","title":"A Beginner's Guide to Birding in the Bay Area","publishDate":1583285711,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Curious | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This was written before the Bay Area's COVID-19 shelter-in-place order, but if you maintain social distance, limit your travel and choose spots which aren't experiencing closures during the order, there's no reason you can't still enjoy some birding right now!\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, I lost my phone on BART. Ever since, I’ve been on an unplanned digital detox. I’ve learned that there are things other than Spotify's \u003cem>Your Top Songs 2019\u003c/em> that are interesting to listen to while walking around. Among them: the different bird calls that vary from place to place. It all kind of happened by accident, but yep, I'm a birder now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What amazed and humbled me about bird-watching was the way it changed the granularity of my perception, which had been pretty 'low-res,'” writes \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/600671/how-to-do-nothing-by-jenny-odell/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"How To Do Nothing\"\u003c/a> author Jenny Odell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t say that I’m experiencing “high-def” perception quite yet, but I’m hoping to get there someday. Here’s a (very, very early) beginner’s guide on how to bird watch around the Bay Area. Let’s learn together!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Equipment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>All you need to get started is a notebook, pair of binoculars, a field guide and a birding app. \u003ca href=\"https://ebird.org/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eBird\u003c/a> is an app developed by Cornell University that crowdsources information on where to find birds, but there are many other apps to choose from. The Audubon Society’s website also has a list of guides on how to \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/birding/how-to-start-birding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">build your own birding kit\u003c/a> on a variety of budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How to watch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the advice I read was to be expected: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/bwdsite/connect/youngbirders/how-to-find-birds.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bird Watcher’s Digest\u003c/a> recommends being quiet, avoiding sudden movements, looking at exposed perches and being patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were a few unexpected tips: you should avoid wearing brightly colored clothing, because it enhances the appearance of movement and frighten birds away. And if you’re really not having any luck, try pishing – making noises that small, curious birds will come out to investigate. To do it, you can blow air through your teeth or kiss the back of your hand.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How to identify birds\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the Audubon Society, elements to \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/news/how-identify-birds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">keep in mind when IDing birds\u003c/a> are group, shape, size, behavior, season, field mark and voice. With that, here are some local Bay Area birds to look out for this season!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>East Bay\u003c/h1>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://goldengateaudubon.org/blog-posts/birding-hotspot-lake-merritt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Merritt\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Easily accessible by public transportation, the lagoon is a great location to spot some biodiverse wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11805243\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11805243 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/25234358829_1657238a47_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/25234358829_1657238a47_b.jpg 780w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/25234358829_1657238a47_b-160x210.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Nuttall's Woodpecker\" by goingslo is licensed under CC BY 2.0\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nuttall’s Woodpecker\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNamed after Thomas Nuttall, biologist and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/6481#/summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada\u003c/a>, Nuttall’s Woodpecker calls Lake Merritt home year round. Recognize a male by its \u003ca href=\"https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Nuttalls_Woodpecker/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">black and white striped coloring\u003c/a> and red tuft. You’ll probably hear it working on an oak tree before you see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/c342deb3-7661-4c5d-8af8-aa0424219656Original-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/c342deb3-7661-4c5d-8af8-aa0424219656Original-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/c342deb3-7661-4c5d-8af8-aa0424219656Original-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/c342deb3-7661-4c5d-8af8-aa0424219656Original-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/c342deb3-7661-4c5d-8af8-aa0424219656Original.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horned Grebe. \u003ccite>(NPS Photo / Ken Conger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Horned Grebe\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSince it’s winter, there’s still a chance to catch a glimpse of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Horned_Grebe/id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Horned Grebe\u003c/a>. You’ll be able to spot a breeding adult by its distinctive golden tufts and black back. They’re territorial, and have elaborate courtship displays.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://goldengateaudubon.org/blog-posts/vollmer-peak-birding-hotspot/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tilden Regional Park\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tilden Regional Park is a great spot for biodiverse birdwatching. \u003ca href=\"https://goldengateaudubon.org/blog-posts/vollmer-peak-birding-hotspot/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vollmer Peak\u003c/a> also offers some incredible views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804856\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/14926636858_13a482b870_b-800x677.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/14926636858_13a482b870_b-800x677.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/14926636858_13a482b870_b-160x135.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/14926636858_13a482b870_b-1020x864.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/14926636858_13a482b870_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steller’s Jay. \u003ccite>(\"IMG_9159\" by phil9945 is licensed under CC PDM 1.0)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steller’s Jays\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSteller’s Jays live in Tilden Park permanently. They’re large songbirds with chunky blue bodies, black heads and a prominent crest that stands straight up from their heads. Steller’s Jays are nest predators, taking eggs and chicks from other species. They also steal food from other jays. They’re loud, and like to mingle with other flocks or play in groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804857\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/3D4F8444-1DD8-B71C-0762A2CAA9F31914Original-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/3D4F8444-1DD8-B71C-0762A2CAA9F31914Original-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/3D4F8444-1DD8-B71C-0762A2CAA9F31914Original-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/3D4F8444-1DD8-B71C-0762A2CAA9F31914Original-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/3D4F8444-1DD8-B71C-0762A2CAA9F31914Original.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Crowned Sparrow. \u003ccite>(National Park Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Golden-Crowned Sparrow\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBesides the distinctive yellow mark on its head, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden-crowned_Sparrow/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">golden-crowned sparrow\u003c/a> is known for a melancholy song. Yukon miners referred to it as the “I’m so tired” or “no gold here” song and nicknamed the bird “Weary Willie” accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>San Francisco\u003c/h1>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://goldengateaudubon.org/blog-posts/fort-mason-birding-hotspot/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fort Mason\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fort Mason’s public community garden isn’t just a reprieve from city life - it’s also a verified birding hotspot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/pelican1-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/pelican1-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/pelican1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/pelican1-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/pelican1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown Pelican. \u003ccite>(\"Pelican\" by watts_photos is licensed under CC PDM 1.0)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brown Pelican\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou can’t miss the huge, goose-sized \u003ca href=\"https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brown_Pelican/id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brown pelicans\u003c/a> that nest in colonies and feed in the water. During breeding season, they also have red skin on their throats. The \u003ca href=\"https://seaworld.org/animals/facts/birds/brown-pelican/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skin sac under their throats\u003c/a> are capable of holding up to three gallons of water!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804871\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/68056ed154d2454b8a00491a60b6cd6cOriginal-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/68056ed154d2454b8a00491a60b6cd6cOriginal-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/68056ed154d2454b8a00491a60b6cd6cOriginal-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/68056ed154d2454b8a00491a60b6cd6cOriginal.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red-breasted Merganser. \u003ccite>(U.S. National Park Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Red-breasted Merganser\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDuring the winter, you can catch the red-breasted merganser in the gardens as well. You’ll be able to recognize the breeding male’s shaggy head as it swims around the water. Their feet are very far back on their bodies, so it’s difficult for them to walk on land.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>South Bay\u003c/h1>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://bahiker.com/southbayhikes/shoreline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shoreline Lake\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Originally a landfill, Shoreline Lake now boasts a golf course, a Victorian mansion and a wildlife refuge where you can find migratory birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804874\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/owlz-800x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/owlz-800x433.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/owlz-160x87.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/owlz.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burrowing owls. \u003ccite>(travelwayolife (Creative Commons 2.0))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Burrowing Owls\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCowboys used to call them \u003ca href=\"https://www.birdnote.org/show/burrowing-owls-howdy-birds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“howdy birds”\u003c/a> because of the way they bob their heads up and down, and people once believed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/burrowing-owl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">burrowing owls\u003c/a>, prairie-dogs, and rattle snakes would live in the same hole at once. During the winter, you can see burrowing owls at Shoreline Lake. They’re roughly the size of a crow and sport a \u003ca href=\"https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Burrowing_Owl/id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mottled coat\u003c/a> with dark and brown bars on their bellies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/31336843458_2ac26bc2ce_b-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/31336843458_2ac26bc2ce_b-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/31336843458_2ac26bc2ce_b-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/31336843458_2ac26bc2ce_b-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/31336843458_2ac26bc2ce_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ridgway’s rails. \u003ccite>(\"Ridgway's rail release, Batiquitos Lagoon, CA\" by USFWS Pacific Southwest Region is licensed under CC PDM 1.0)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ridgway’s Rails\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nListed as federally endangered due to wetland loss, \u003ca href=\"https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ridgways_Rail/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ridgway’s Rails\u003c/a> spend all year at Shoreline. They’re larger birds with a curved bill, and chicks younger than two years old get carried on their adults’ backs. They also have special salt glands that enable them to drink seawater!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Get out there this season to spot these interesting birds who call the Bay Area home.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1589232235,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1061},"headData":{"title":"A Beginner's Guide to Birding in the Bay Area | KQED","description":"Get out there this season to spot these interesting birds who call the Bay Area home.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A Beginner's Guide to Birding in the Bay Area","datePublished":"2020-03-04T01:35:11.000Z","dateModified":"2020-05-11T21:23:55.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11804822 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11804822","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/03/03/a-beginners-guide-to-birding-in-the-bay-area/","disqusTitle":"A Beginner's Guide to Birding in the Bay Area","source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious","path":"/news/11804822/a-beginners-guide-to-birding-in-the-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This was written before the Bay Area's COVID-19 shelter-in-place order, but if you maintain social distance, limit your travel and choose spots which aren't experiencing closures during the order, there's no reason you can't still enjoy some birding right now!\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, I lost my phone on BART. Ever since, I’ve been on an unplanned digital detox. I’ve learned that there are things other than Spotify's \u003cem>Your Top Songs 2019\u003c/em> that are interesting to listen to while walking around. Among them: the different bird calls that vary from place to place. It all kind of happened by accident, but yep, I'm a birder now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What amazed and humbled me about bird-watching was the way it changed the granularity of my perception, which had been pretty 'low-res,'” writes \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/600671/how-to-do-nothing-by-jenny-odell/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"How To Do Nothing\"\u003c/a> author Jenny Odell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t say that I’m experiencing “high-def” perception quite yet, but I’m hoping to get there someday. Here’s a (very, very early) beginner’s guide on how to bird watch around the Bay Area. Let’s learn together!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Equipment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>All you need to get started is a notebook, pair of binoculars, a field guide and a birding app. \u003ca href=\"https://ebird.org/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eBird\u003c/a> is an app developed by Cornell University that crowdsources information on where to find birds, but there are many other apps to choose from. The Audubon Society’s website also has a list of guides on how to \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/birding/how-to-start-birding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">build your own birding kit\u003c/a> on a variety of budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How to watch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the advice I read was to be expected: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/bwdsite/connect/youngbirders/how-to-find-birds.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bird Watcher’s Digest\u003c/a> recommends being quiet, avoiding sudden movements, looking at exposed perches and being patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were a few unexpected tips: you should avoid wearing brightly colored clothing, because it enhances the appearance of movement and frighten birds away. And if you’re really not having any luck, try pishing – making noises that small, curious birds will come out to investigate. To do it, you can blow air through your teeth or kiss the back of your hand.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How to identify birds\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the Audubon Society, elements to \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/news/how-identify-birds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">keep in mind when IDing birds\u003c/a> are group, shape, size, behavior, season, field mark and voice. With that, here are some local Bay Area birds to look out for this season!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>East Bay\u003c/h1>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://goldengateaudubon.org/blog-posts/birding-hotspot-lake-merritt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Merritt\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Easily accessible by public transportation, the lagoon is a great location to spot some biodiverse wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11805243\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11805243 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/25234358829_1657238a47_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/25234358829_1657238a47_b.jpg 780w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/25234358829_1657238a47_b-160x210.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Nuttall's Woodpecker\" by goingslo is licensed under CC BY 2.0\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nuttall’s Woodpecker\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNamed after Thomas Nuttall, biologist and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/6481#/summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada\u003c/a>, Nuttall’s Woodpecker calls Lake Merritt home year round. Recognize a male by its \u003ca href=\"https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Nuttalls_Woodpecker/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">black and white striped coloring\u003c/a> and red tuft. You’ll probably hear it working on an oak tree before you see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/c342deb3-7661-4c5d-8af8-aa0424219656Original-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/c342deb3-7661-4c5d-8af8-aa0424219656Original-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/c342deb3-7661-4c5d-8af8-aa0424219656Original-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/c342deb3-7661-4c5d-8af8-aa0424219656Original-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/c342deb3-7661-4c5d-8af8-aa0424219656Original.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horned Grebe. \u003ccite>(NPS Photo / Ken Conger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Horned Grebe\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSince it’s winter, there’s still a chance to catch a glimpse of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Horned_Grebe/id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Horned Grebe\u003c/a>. You’ll be able to spot a breeding adult by its distinctive golden tufts and black back. They’re territorial, and have elaborate courtship displays.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://goldengateaudubon.org/blog-posts/vollmer-peak-birding-hotspot/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tilden Regional Park\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tilden Regional Park is a great spot for biodiverse birdwatching. \u003ca href=\"https://goldengateaudubon.org/blog-posts/vollmer-peak-birding-hotspot/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vollmer Peak\u003c/a> also offers some incredible views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804856\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/14926636858_13a482b870_b-800x677.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/14926636858_13a482b870_b-800x677.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/14926636858_13a482b870_b-160x135.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/14926636858_13a482b870_b-1020x864.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/14926636858_13a482b870_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steller’s Jay. \u003ccite>(\"IMG_9159\" by phil9945 is licensed under CC PDM 1.0)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steller’s Jays\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSteller’s Jays live in Tilden Park permanently. They’re large songbirds with chunky blue bodies, black heads and a prominent crest that stands straight up from their heads. Steller’s Jays are nest predators, taking eggs and chicks from other species. They also steal food from other jays. They’re loud, and like to mingle with other flocks or play in groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804857\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/3D4F8444-1DD8-B71C-0762A2CAA9F31914Original-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/3D4F8444-1DD8-B71C-0762A2CAA9F31914Original-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/3D4F8444-1DD8-B71C-0762A2CAA9F31914Original-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/3D4F8444-1DD8-B71C-0762A2CAA9F31914Original-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/3D4F8444-1DD8-B71C-0762A2CAA9F31914Original.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Crowned Sparrow. \u003ccite>(National Park Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Golden-Crowned Sparrow\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBesides the distinctive yellow mark on its head, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden-crowned_Sparrow/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">golden-crowned sparrow\u003c/a> is known for a melancholy song. Yukon miners referred to it as the “I’m so tired” or “no gold here” song and nicknamed the bird “Weary Willie” accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>San Francisco\u003c/h1>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://goldengateaudubon.org/blog-posts/fort-mason-birding-hotspot/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fort Mason\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fort Mason’s public community garden isn’t just a reprieve from city life - it’s also a verified birding hotspot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/pelican1-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/pelican1-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/pelican1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/pelican1-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/pelican1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown Pelican. \u003ccite>(\"Pelican\" by watts_photos is licensed under CC PDM 1.0)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brown Pelican\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou can’t miss the huge, goose-sized \u003ca href=\"https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brown_Pelican/id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brown pelicans\u003c/a> that nest in colonies and feed in the water. During breeding season, they also have red skin on their throats. The \u003ca href=\"https://seaworld.org/animals/facts/birds/brown-pelican/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skin sac under their throats\u003c/a> are capable of holding up to three gallons of water!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804871\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/68056ed154d2454b8a00491a60b6cd6cOriginal-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/68056ed154d2454b8a00491a60b6cd6cOriginal-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/68056ed154d2454b8a00491a60b6cd6cOriginal-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/68056ed154d2454b8a00491a60b6cd6cOriginal.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red-breasted Merganser. \u003ccite>(U.S. National Park Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Red-breasted Merganser\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDuring the winter, you can catch the red-breasted merganser in the gardens as well. You’ll be able to recognize the breeding male’s shaggy head as it swims around the water. Their feet are very far back on their bodies, so it’s difficult for them to walk on land.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch1>South Bay\u003c/h1>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://bahiker.com/southbayhikes/shoreline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shoreline Lake\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Originally a landfill, Shoreline Lake now boasts a golf course, a Victorian mansion and a wildlife refuge where you can find migratory birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804874\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/owlz-800x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/owlz-800x433.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/owlz-160x87.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/owlz.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burrowing owls. \u003ccite>(travelwayolife (Creative Commons 2.0))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Burrowing Owls\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCowboys used to call them \u003ca href=\"https://www.birdnote.org/show/burrowing-owls-howdy-birds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“howdy birds”\u003c/a> because of the way they bob their heads up and down, and people once believed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/burrowing-owl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">burrowing owls\u003c/a>, prairie-dogs, and rattle snakes would live in the same hole at once. During the winter, you can see burrowing owls at Shoreline Lake. They’re roughly the size of a crow and sport a \u003ca href=\"https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Burrowing_Owl/id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mottled coat\u003c/a> with dark and brown bars on their bellies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/31336843458_2ac26bc2ce_b-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/31336843458_2ac26bc2ce_b-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/31336843458_2ac26bc2ce_b-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/31336843458_2ac26bc2ce_b-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/31336843458_2ac26bc2ce_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ridgway’s rails. \u003ccite>(\"Ridgway's rail release, Batiquitos Lagoon, CA\" by USFWS Pacific Southwest Region is licensed under CC PDM 1.0)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ridgway’s Rails\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nListed as federally endangered due to wetland loss, \u003ca href=\"https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ridgways_Rail/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ridgway’s Rails\u003c/a> spend all year at Shoreline. They’re larger birds with a curved bill, and chicks younger than two years old get carried on their adults’ backs. They also have special salt glands that enable them to drink seawater!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11804822/a-beginners-guide-to-birding-in-the-bay-area","authors":["11530"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_356"],"tags":["news_2426","news_21950","news_1765"],"featImg":"news_11804874","label":"source_news_11804822"},"news_11791321":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11791321","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11791321","score":null,"sort":[1576453609000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"hundreds-participate-in-oaklands-christmas-bird-count","title":"Hundreds Participate in Oakland's Christmas Bird Count","publishDate":1576453609,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As the sun rose over the Port of Oakland, a group of about ten people donning jackets and hats peered through their binoculars. They are near Port View Park, scanning the sky for birds, like the Dark-eyed Junco or the Fox Sparrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is part of a larger set of about 250 Oakland bird watchers who participated in the 79th annual Christmas Bird Count on Sunday. It's one of 2,615 bird counts around organized by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/conservation/science/christmas-bird-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Audubon Society\u003c/a> that helps provide data on whether bird populations are growing or declining and reveal overall trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're out in nature, you're volunteering for a task that has a purpose, and you are seeing a lot of birds,\" said Judith Dunham, leader of the Port View Park group. \"And it's really wonderful to spend the day contributing to citizen [led] science.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Oakland area, there have been long-term declines of certain bird populations. Dark-eyed Juncos have decreased by 35 percent, Fox Sparrows, 42 percent and Brewer’s Blackbirds, 65 percent. Tricolored Blackbirds have not been spotted at all in the past few years. There are also birds that have thrived, like the American crow and wild turkeys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery size=\"medium\" columns=\"2\" ids=\"11791324,11791325,11791326,11791327\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Quady of Berkeley woke up at 3 a.m. to lead a group to Claremont Canyon in Oakland to listen for owls. He said they heard five Great horned owls and one Western screech owl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's count, which covers a 15-mile area including Berkeley, Alameda, Emeryville, Orinda and Lafayette, is one of the most popular in the Western Hemisphere, according to Ilana DeBare of the Golden Gate Audubon Society. She said that it will take a few weeks for the Oakland group to make a final count of the birds they saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='climate-change' label='Climate Change']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Christmas Bird Count began as a \"more humane replacement\" for the traditional Christmas hunt, according to DeBare. About 80,000 people will participate in the United States, Canada and parts of Latin America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6461/120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study \u003c/a>by the journal Science in October that used data from the Audubon's annual count showed a decline of three billion birds in North America's population since 1970, primarily as a result of human activity from agriculture and habitat loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Sara Hossaini contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The count is part of a worldwide effort by the Audubon Society to measure whether bird populations are growing or declining.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1576455732,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":true,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":404},"headData":{"title":"Hundreds Participate in Oakland's Christmas Bird Count | KQED","description":"The count is part of a worldwide effort by the Audubon Society to measure whether bird populations are growing or declining.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Hundreds Participate in Oakland's Christmas Bird Count","datePublished":"2019-12-15T23:46:49.000Z","dateModified":"2019-12-16T00:22:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11791321 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11791321","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/15/hundreds-participate-in-oaklands-christmas-bird-count/","disqusTitle":"Hundreds Participate in Oakland's Christmas Bird Count","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/12/birdspot.wav","nprByline":"Gabriel Greschler","path":"/news/11791321/hundreds-participate-in-oaklands-christmas-bird-count","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the sun rose over the Port of Oakland, a group of about ten people donning jackets and hats peered through their binoculars. They are near Port View Park, scanning the sky for birds, like the Dark-eyed Junco or the Fox Sparrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is part of a larger set of about 250 Oakland bird watchers who participated in the 79th annual Christmas Bird Count on Sunday. It's one of 2,615 bird counts around organized by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/conservation/science/christmas-bird-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Audubon Society\u003c/a> that helps provide data on whether bird populations are growing or declining and reveal overall trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're out in nature, you're volunteering for a task that has a purpose, and you are seeing a lot of birds,\" said Judith Dunham, leader of the Port View Park group. \"And it's really wonderful to spend the day contributing to citizen [led] science.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Oakland area, there have been long-term declines of certain bird populations. Dark-eyed Juncos have decreased by 35 percent, Fox Sparrows, 42 percent and Brewer’s Blackbirds, 65 percent. Tricolored Blackbirds have not been spotted at all in the past few years. There are also birds that have thrived, like the American crow and wild turkeys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"gallery","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","columns":"2","ids":"11791324,11791325,11791326,11791327","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Quady of Berkeley woke up at 3 a.m. to lead a group to Claremont Canyon in Oakland to listen for owls. He said they heard five Great horned owls and one Western screech owl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's count, which covers a 15-mile area including Berkeley, Alameda, Emeryville, Orinda and Lafayette, is one of the most popular in the Western Hemisphere, according to Ilana DeBare of the Golden Gate Audubon Society. She said that it will take a few weeks for the Oakland group to make a final count of the birds they saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"climate-change","label":"Climate Change "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Christmas Bird Count began as a \"more humane replacement\" for the traditional Christmas hunt, according to DeBare. About 80,000 people will participate in the United States, Canada and parts of Latin America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6461/120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study \u003c/a>by the journal Science in October that used data from the Audubon's annual count showed a decline of three billion birds in North America's population since 1970, primarily as a result of human activity from agriculture and habitat loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Sara Hossaini contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11791321/hundreds-participate-in-oaklands-christmas-bird-count","authors":["byline_news_11791321"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_2426","news_255","news_20023"],"featImg":"news_11791333","label":"news_72"},"news_11762685":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11762685","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11762685","score":null,"sort":[1563777089000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"once-nearly-dead-as-the-dodo-california-condor-comeback-reaches-1000-chicks","title":"Once Nearly Dead as the Dodo, California Condor Comeback Reaches 1,000 Chicks","publishDate":1563777089,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The California condor, North America's largest bird, once ruled the American Southwest and California's coastal mountains. The vulture-like bird was \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23527\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revered\u003c/a> by Native Americans and was believed to contain spiritual powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of years later, its future seemed all but certain. Defying odds, conservation efforts brought the species back and prevented it from joining the dodo in extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, condor reintroduction celebrates a milestone: Chick No. 1,000 has hatched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s, fewer than two dozen condors were left in the world. Conservationists rounded up the remaining condors and began breeding them in captivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iucn.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Union for Conservation of Nature\u003c/a>, the condor became critically endangered in the 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century — one classification behind extinct in the wild. \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/california-condor\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The decline\u003c/a> came from poaching, habitat destruction and lead poisoning as condors \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/news/lead-ammo-top-threat-condors-now-outlawed-california\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scavenged for carrion containing lead shots\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, more than 300 California condors exist in the wild. Including captivity breeding programs, there are more than 500 in the world, says Tim Hauck, the condor program manager at the Peregrine Fund.\u003cbr>\nhttps://twitter.com/OregonZoo/status/1149726132024950785\u003cbr>\nThe 1,000\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> successful birth signifies an optimistic future for the condor recovery mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're seeing more chicks born in the wild than we ever have before,\" Hauck told NPR's Scott Simon. \"And that's just a step towards success for the condor and achieving a sustainable population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hatchling is currently in Zion National Park — it emerged from its shell in May, but its survival was just confirmed in July. The chick, whose sex cannot be identified without a blood test, will fledge or take flight for the first time in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"This March 2019 photo taken through a spotting scope and provided by the National Park Service shows a condor nesting site in Utah's Zion National Park. Park rangers estimate the California condor hatched in May, nestled in a crevice of a sweeping red-rock cliff.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762687\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d.jpg 1854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This March 2019 photo taken through a spotting scope and provided by the National Park Service shows a condor nesting site in Utah's Zion National Park. Park rangers estimate the California condor hatched in May, nestled in a crevice of a sweeping red-rock cliff. \u003ccite>(National Park Service/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the chick successfully leaves the nest, it can expect to someday \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/c/california-condor/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">grow up to have a 10-foot wingspan\u003c/a>, or the size of a 6-foot-tall man. The bird's average lifespan is 60 years, one of the world's longest-living bird species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond its outsize proportions, the California condor is special for a number of reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Condors are one of the very unique species of birds in North America and in the world, for that matter. They're extremely personable,\" Hauck says. \"They'll have individual personalities. And as biologists, we really get to know these birds on a one-to-one level, so they end up meaning quite a bit to us, and we get quite attached.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His work in withstanding condor extinction is far from over, but for now, Hauck is celebrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here's to seeing that population increase every year,\" Hauck says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dana Cronin and Melissa Gray produced and edited this story for broadcast.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In the 1980s, there were fewer than two dozen California Condors left. Today, more than 500 exist in the world, thanks to the efforts of conservationists.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1563777282,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":501},"headData":{"title":"Once Nearly Dead as the Dodo, California Condor Comeback Reaches 1,000 Chicks | KQED","description":"In the 1980s, there were fewer than two dozen California Condors left. 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The vulture-like bird was \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23527\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revered\u003c/a> by Native Americans and was believed to contain spiritual powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of years later, its future seemed all but certain. Defying odds, conservation efforts brought the species back and prevented it from joining the dodo in extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, condor reintroduction celebrates a milestone: Chick No. 1,000 has hatched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s, fewer than two dozen condors were left in the world. Conservationists rounded up the remaining condors and began breeding them in captivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iucn.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Union for Conservation of Nature\u003c/a>, the condor became critically endangered in the 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century — one classification behind extinct in the wild. \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/california-condor\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The decline\u003c/a> came from poaching, habitat destruction and lead poisoning as condors \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/news/lead-ammo-top-threat-condors-now-outlawed-california\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scavenged for carrion containing lead shots\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, more than 300 California condors exist in the wild. Including captivity breeding programs, there are more than 500 in the world, says Tim Hauck, the condor program manager at the Peregrine Fund.\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1149726132024950785"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe 1,000\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> successful birth signifies an optimistic future for the condor recovery mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're seeing more chicks born in the wild than we ever have before,\" Hauck told NPR's Scott Simon. \"And that's just a step towards success for the condor and achieving a sustainable population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hatchling is currently in Zion National Park — it emerged from its shell in May, but its survival was just confirmed in July. The chick, whose sex cannot be identified without a blood test, will fledge or take flight for the first time in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"This March 2019 photo taken through a spotting scope and provided by the National Park Service shows a condor nesting site in Utah's Zion National Park. Park rangers estimate the California condor hatched in May, nestled in a crevice of a sweeping red-rock cliff.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762687\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/ap_19192609720314-1444b9a622bdeba5e6f67d51dad2db6ca7561d1d.jpg 1854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This March 2019 photo taken through a spotting scope and provided by the National Park Service shows a condor nesting site in Utah's Zion National Park. Park rangers estimate the California condor hatched in May, nestled in a crevice of a sweeping red-rock cliff. \u003ccite>(National Park Service/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the chick successfully leaves the nest, it can expect to someday \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/c/california-condor/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">grow up to have a 10-foot wingspan\u003c/a>, or the size of a 6-foot-tall man. The bird's average lifespan is 60 years, one of the world's longest-living bird species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond its outsize proportions, the California condor is special for a number of reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Condors are one of the very unique species of birds in North America and in the world, for that matter. They're extremely personable,\" Hauck says. \"They'll have individual personalities. And as biologists, we really get to know these birds on a one-to-one level, so they end up meaning quite a bit to us, and we get quite attached.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His work in withstanding condor extinction is far from over, but for now, Hauck is celebrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here's to seeing that population increase every year,\" Hauck says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dana Cronin and Melissa Gray produced and edited this story for broadcast.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11762685/once-nearly-dead-as-the-dodo-california-condor-comeback-reaches-1000-chicks","authors":["byline_news_11762685"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_2426","news_21635"],"featImg":"news_11762686","label":"source_news_11762685"},"news_11800958":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11800958","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11800958","score":null,"sort":[1559815206000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"crows-are-crowding-your-bay-area-skies-why-2","title":"Crows Are Crowding Your Bay Area Skies. Why?","publishDate":1559815206,"format":"image","headTitle":"Crows Are Crowding Your Bay Area Skies. Why? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]Q[/dropcap]uick: What’s the one bird you see and hear most every day, day in and day out, without fail?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re willing to bet that for most of us in the Bay Area, there’s one avian species that predominates in our daily bird experience: Corvus brachyrhynchos, better known to most of us as “the crow.”[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see ’em in the morning, I see ’em in the afternoon, I see ’em up in trees, I see ’em on top of buildings,” said San Mateo native Kevin Branch. “They’re everywhere. I kind of feel like the crow has taken over — big time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Branch has a lot of questions for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> about crows in the Bay Area: Why are there so many? Are crows replacing other familiar birds, such as mockingbirds, blue jays and red-winged blackbirds? Is there a plan to reduce crow populations?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Yes, There Are More Crows\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he most persuasive evidence comes from the Audubon Society and its \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/conservation/join-christmas-bird-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christmas Bird Count\u003c/a>. The count is conducted by more than 2,500 local chapters across the Americas, the Caribbean and Hawaii, each with volunteer observers tallying birds in a predefined 15-mile-diameter circle over a 24-hour period.[aside tag='bay-curious' label='Looking for More Bay Curious?']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Audubon Society’s Golden Gate chapter conducts two counts each December: one in a circle centered in Oakland, covering a big slice of the East Bay Hills and the bay shore from El Cerrito to San Leandro, and the second in a circle centered on San Francisco’s Oceanview neighborhood, which covers the entire city and most of the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of crows in the Oakland circle has grown from 167 in 2000 to nearly 2,500 in 2018 — an increase of nearly 15 times in fewer than 20 years. The numbers for San Francisco are impressive, if not as dramatic. The 2000 count recorded 122 crows, with more recent counts in the 700 to 900 range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s behind the increase? People who watch the birds point to an equation with two major parts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crows Not Welcome\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One argument, which may be true, is that crows are smart birds, and crows have historically inhabited the countryside,” says Bob Lewis, a Berkeley birder and one or the organizers for the Oakland Christmas Bird Count. “Farmers put up scarecrows and crows eat corn. We have that kind of feeling about them. But in the country, crows get shot, too, and crows have perhaps discovered in the cities and towns that it’s a much safer place to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crows have been on the receiving end of our hostility for a long time — a creature viewed by many as a voracious destroyer of crops and inveterate opportunist preying on the young of smaller, more valuable, and let’s face it, better-liked birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The attitude of the individual farmer toward the crow should be one of toleration when no serious losses are suffered, rather than one of uncompromising antagonism resulting in the unwarranted destruction of these birds.\u003ccite>E.R. Kalmbach,\u003cbr>\nU.S. Department of Agriculture, 1918\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some, including E.R. Kalmbach, the author of \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/crowitsrelationt621kalm/page/n1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a U.S. Department of Agriculture bulletin\u003c/a> published in 1918, acknowledged that crows sometimes did have a negative impact on crops. But based on an intensive study of what crows actually ate — the stomachs of 2,118 crows were examined for evidence — Kalmbach argued the birds played an essential role in controlling harmful insects, a service that “can ill be spared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The attitude of the individual farmer toward the crow should be one of toleration when no serious losses are suffered, rather than one of uncompromising antagonism resulting in the unwarranted destruction of these birds which at times are most valuable aids to man,” Kalmbach concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That appeal for reason apparently didn’t resonate too widely. The very next year, 1919, the DuPont chemical company launched a National Crow Shoot. DuPont declared “it is certain that some concerted action on the part of farmers and sportsmen” was needed to ensure a bountiful grain harvest. The company promoted another benefit to hardware retailers, who at the time sold firearms — it would help them sell more ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-800x597.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-800x597.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-1020x761.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-1200x895.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ad for DuPont’s 1919 National Crow Shoot, a yearlong event the company promoted as a way to help farmers and sell ammunition. \u003ccite>(Internet Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attempts to eliminate crows weren’t, and aren’t, limited to the countryside. In the early 20th century, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park employed a hunter — usually a city cop — to shoot crows and other unwanted animals, like jays and coyotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it may come as news to city dwellers, but California has a hunting season for crows from Dec. 1 through the beginning of April every year in most of the state’s rural areas. State law allows landowners to kill crows out of season, too, if they “are committing or about to commit depredations upon ornamental or shade trees, agricultural crops, livestock, or wildlife, or when concentrated in such numbers and manner as to constitute a health hazard or other nuisance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the most recent year for which the Department of Fish and Wildlife has numbers, hunters here reported killing about 35,000 crows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Food Means More Crows\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unfriendly humans are just one major factor that has led to more crows joining us in our cities and suburbs. The other?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s kind of simple myself,” said University of Washington wildlife biologist John Marzluff, who has studied crows and other corvids for decades. “Basically, we’ve provided more food for them. Now, the reasons for that may be more complex because it includes things like garbage, like fast-food restaurant waste, like roadkill. So there are a lot of ways we provide them food. But that’s the bottom line. That’s why they’re more abundant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a sort of common-sense objection to that idea: City dwellers have always been pretty messy. Look at the giant open garbage dumps that used to be on the edge of every big city. If garbage is attracting crows, where were they before?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marzluff says it actually works better for crows to spread out their food sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have to have a dump,” he says. “I think actually in terms of territoriality and increasing the breeding population, it’s better to have food more uniformly distributed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752516\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-800x653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-800x653.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-160x131.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-1020x833.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-1200x980.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-1920x1567.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ready availability of food in cities — in this case, meant for some backyard chickens — is a major factor driving crows’ urban population increase, biologists say. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marzluff also says crows have no problem crowding in among us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They only defend enough space that’s necessary to get enough food to raise their young and survive,” he says. “So as more food is available, they can live in tighter and tighter quarters and you can fit more of them into the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Cotter, a web developer for the Sierra Club who is also a citizen scientist and corvid enthusiast, points out that some of the very things we do to make cities more livable for us are also attractive to crows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re sort of ‘crow-forming’ our cities — terraforming, but for crows,” Cotter says. “We plant trees they like to nest in. We plant trees that other birds nest in, and that becomes a source of food. So we’re presenting this sort of lovely banquet for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Are Crows Replacing or Killing Off Other Species of Birds?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Kaeli Swift, another University of Washington biologist who has spent years studying crows and their ways, says research has found that the crow’s reputation for reducing the population of other songbirds is largely undeserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people that contact me feeling like crows wiped away all of the birds in their neighborhood just have this perception that if you see a flock of crows, it means none of your songbirds are going to reproduce, that everything is doomed,” Swift says. “The science just does not back that up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research \u003ca href=\"https://corvidresearch.blog/2014/06/20/do-crows-reduce-other-songbirds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she’s pointing to\u003c/a> is \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ibi.12223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2014 compilation\u003c/a> of 42 studies that looked at the impact of corvids on dozens of songbirds that were their potential prey. In four out of five cases, the analysis found, corvids had no negative impact on either the reproduction — nesting success and rearing of young — or the abundance of other birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crow battles with a white-tailed kite at Cesar Chavez Park on the Berkeley waterfront. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bob Lewis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crows did have a larger impact than some other corvids on how successful other birds were in reproducing, the study found, but not on their overall numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift says the explanation for this finding — in essence, that even though crows and other corvids do prey upon other birds, the overall impact is small — is “compensatory mortality.” In plain English: It’s a hard world for little things. There are lots of things out there that kill birds and reduce their populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Most people that contact me feeling like crows wiped away all of the birds in their neighborhood and just have this perception that if you see a flock of crows, it means none of your songbirds are going to reproduce, that everything is doomed. The science just does not back that up.’\u003ccite>Kaeli Swift\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It can be easy for us to think, ‘If this predator was gone, then all of the babies they would have eaten will survive,'” Swift says. “That’s really not how it generally works. … The other predators in the system will just come in and take their place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kinds of other predators? Hawks. Owls. Jays. Snakes. Foxes. Raccoons. Cats. And, Swift, notes, some animals we might not think of as a menace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people don’t realize squirrels and chipmunks are huge nest predators, much more impactful than crows,” Swift says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is There a Plan to Reduce the Crow Population?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Well, no. Crow hunts continue in California and across the United States, and there’s lots of video evidence of that on YouTube. But scientists like Swift and Marzluff argue that the best way to deal with crows is to try to understand who they are and what they’re doing here — an echo of biologist E.R. Kalmbach’s long-ago call for crow tolerance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of qualities that I don’t think you can help but find really attractive in crows — like their ability to learn our faces and be pretty excited to see us when you’ve built up a positive relationship with them by feeding them,” Swift says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>A Beakful of Crow Resources\u003c/h4>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FLOEQK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gifts of the Crow\u003c/a>,” by John Marzluff and Tony Angell\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002GJRYWU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crow Planet\u003c/a>,” by Lyanda Lynn Haupt\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://baynature.org/article/are-there-more-crows-and-ravens-in-the-bay-area-these-days/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Are There More Crows and Ravens in the Bay Area These Days?\u003c/a>” by Adrian Cotter in Bay Nature magazine\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/crowitsrelationt621kalm/page/n1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Crow and Its Relation to Man\u003c/a>,” by E.R. Kalmbach, U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://corvidresearch.blog/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corvid Research\u003c/a>, Kaeli Swift’s blog on her own and others’ corvid studies. To get the flavor of her work (and entertaining writing), check out “\u003ca href=\"https://corvidresearch.blog/2018/07/16/putting-the-crow-in-necrophilia/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Putting the ‘Crow’ in Necrophilia\u003c/a>.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Bird-Black-As-Sun-California/dp/0615536328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows and Ravens\u003c/a>“\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Video: \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/i_ta33bMB70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crows playing on a snowy car\u003c/a>. Really.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“They play, so you can watch them play games, particularly the young birds. And they’re just kind of charismatic and goofy in the way that a dog with a really strong personality is. For me, crows have the same sort of quality where, if you watch them, you just see them do all these things that are so interesting that you just kind of can’t help falling in love with them if you just open yourself up to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift says many of our problems with crows may stem from how much we share in common with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re clever, so they’re able to outsmart some of the ways we try to keep them out of our garbage or out of our property,” she says. “They are social, so they are really noisy. They are protective parents, so they can be aggressive around their babies when they feel like they’re being a threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marzluff says it’s important to remember crows are “sentient beings” like us and that we ought to learn to use our big human brains to discover and address the problems we have with a growing crow population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do end every one of my talks about crows with a slide that’s like, ‘OK, these things can get under our skin. Why? And what should we do?’ ” he says. “And my take-home is that we should celebrate them for being successful, and if we need to control them in places, we need to think hard about it. Like they think about how to live with us, we need to think about how to live with them and come up with strategies that will have meaningful effects on their populations — not just kill a bunch of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It's not your imagination: There are a lot more crows in parts of the Bay Area than there used to be. Can you learn to love them?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700591258,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":2338},"headData":{"title":"Crows Are Crowding Your Bay Area Skies. Why? | KQED","description":"It's not your imagination: There are a lot more crows in parts of the Bay Area than there used to be. 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Why?","datePublished":"2019-06-06T10:00:06.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T18:27:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/new-bay-curious/2019/06/Crows.mp3","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11800958/crows-are-crowding-your-bay-area-skies-why-2","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">Q\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>uick: What’s the one bird you see and hear most every day, day in and day out, without fail?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re willing to bet that for most of us in the Bay Area, there’s one avian species that predominates in our daily bird experience: Corvus brachyrhynchos, better known to most of us as “the crow.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see ’em in the morning, I see ’em in the afternoon, I see ’em up in trees, I see ’em on top of buildings,” said San Mateo native Kevin Branch. “They’re everywhere. I kind of feel like the crow has taken over — big time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Branch has a lot of questions for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> about crows in the Bay Area: Why are there so many? Are crows replacing other familiar birds, such as mockingbirds, blue jays and red-winged blackbirds? Is there a plan to reduce crow populations?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Yes, There Are More Crows\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he most persuasive evidence comes from the Audubon Society and its \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/conservation/join-christmas-bird-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christmas Bird Count\u003c/a>. The count is conducted by more than 2,500 local chapters across the Americas, the Caribbean and Hawaii, each with volunteer observers tallying birds in a predefined 15-mile-diameter circle over a 24-hour period.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"bay-curious","label":"Looking for More Bay Curious? "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Audubon Society’s Golden Gate chapter conducts two counts each December: one in a circle centered in Oakland, covering a big slice of the East Bay Hills and the bay shore from El Cerrito to San Leandro, and the second in a circle centered on San Francisco’s Oceanview neighborhood, which covers the entire city and most of the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of crows in the Oakland circle has grown from 167 in 2000 to nearly 2,500 in 2018 — an increase of nearly 15 times in fewer than 20 years. The numbers for San Francisco are impressive, if not as dramatic. The 2000 count recorded 122 crows, with more recent counts in the 700 to 900 range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s behind the increase? People who watch the birds point to an equation with two major parts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crows Not Welcome\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One argument, which may be true, is that crows are smart birds, and crows have historically inhabited the countryside,” says Bob Lewis, a Berkeley birder and one or the organizers for the Oakland Christmas Bird Count. “Farmers put up scarecrows and crows eat corn. We have that kind of feeling about them. But in the country, crows get shot, too, and crows have perhaps discovered in the cities and towns that it’s a much safer place to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crows have been on the receiving end of our hostility for a long time — a creature viewed by many as a voracious destroyer of crops and inveterate opportunist preying on the young of smaller, more valuable, and let’s face it, better-liked birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The attitude of the individual farmer toward the crow should be one of toleration when no serious losses are suffered, rather than one of uncompromising antagonism resulting in the unwarranted destruction of these birds.\u003ccite>E.R. Kalmbach,\u003cbr>\nU.S. Department of Agriculture, 1918\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some, including E.R. Kalmbach, the author of \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/crowitsrelationt621kalm/page/n1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a U.S. Department of Agriculture bulletin\u003c/a> published in 1918, acknowledged that crows sometimes did have a negative impact on crops. But based on an intensive study of what crows actually ate — the stomachs of 2,118 crows were examined for evidence — Kalmbach argued the birds played an essential role in controlling harmful insects, a service that “can ill be spared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The attitude of the individual farmer toward the crow should be one of toleration when no serious losses are suffered, rather than one of uncompromising antagonism resulting in the unwarranted destruction of these birds which at times are most valuable aids to man,” Kalmbach concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That appeal for reason apparently didn’t resonate too widely. The very next year, 1919, the DuPont chemical company launched a National Crow Shoot. DuPont declared “it is certain that some concerted action on the part of farmers and sportsmen” was needed to ensure a bountiful grain harvest. The company promoted another benefit to hardware retailers, who at the time sold firearms — it would help them sell more ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-800x597.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-800x597.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-1020x761.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-1200x895.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ad for DuPont’s 1919 National Crow Shoot, a yearlong event the company promoted as a way to help farmers and sell ammunition. \u003ccite>(Internet Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attempts to eliminate crows weren’t, and aren’t, limited to the countryside. In the early 20th century, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park employed a hunter — usually a city cop — to shoot crows and other unwanted animals, like jays and coyotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it may come as news to city dwellers, but California has a hunting season for crows from Dec. 1 through the beginning of April every year in most of the state’s rural areas. State law allows landowners to kill crows out of season, too, if they “are committing or about to commit depredations upon ornamental or shade trees, agricultural crops, livestock, or wildlife, or when concentrated in such numbers and manner as to constitute a health hazard or other nuisance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the most recent year for which the Department of Fish and Wildlife has numbers, hunters here reported killing about 35,000 crows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Food Means More Crows\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unfriendly humans are just one major factor that has led to more crows joining us in our cities and suburbs. The other?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s kind of simple myself,” said University of Washington wildlife biologist John Marzluff, who has studied crows and other corvids for decades. “Basically, we’ve provided more food for them. Now, the reasons for that may be more complex because it includes things like garbage, like fast-food restaurant waste, like roadkill. So there are a lot of ways we provide them food. But that’s the bottom line. That’s why they’re more abundant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a sort of common-sense objection to that idea: City dwellers have always been pretty messy. Look at the giant open garbage dumps that used to be on the edge of every big city. If garbage is attracting crows, where were they before?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marzluff says it actually works better for crows to spread out their food sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have to have a dump,” he says. “I think actually in terms of territoriality and increasing the breeding population, it’s better to have food more uniformly distributed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752516\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-800x653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-800x653.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-160x131.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-1020x833.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-1200x980.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-1920x1567.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ready availability of food in cities — in this case, meant for some backyard chickens — is a major factor driving crows’ urban population increase, biologists say. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marzluff also says crows have no problem crowding in among us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They only defend enough space that’s necessary to get enough food to raise their young and survive,” he says. “So as more food is available, they can live in tighter and tighter quarters and you can fit more of them into the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Cotter, a web developer for the Sierra Club who is also a citizen scientist and corvid enthusiast, points out that some of the very things we do to make cities more livable for us are also attractive to crows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re sort of ‘crow-forming’ our cities — terraforming, but for crows,” Cotter says. “We plant trees they like to nest in. We plant trees that other birds nest in, and that becomes a source of food. So we’re presenting this sort of lovely banquet for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Are Crows Replacing or Killing Off Other Species of Birds?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Kaeli Swift, another University of Washington biologist who has spent years studying crows and their ways, says research has found that the crow’s reputation for reducing the population of other songbirds is largely undeserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people that contact me feeling like crows wiped away all of the birds in their neighborhood just have this perception that if you see a flock of crows, it means none of your songbirds are going to reproduce, that everything is doomed,” Swift says. “The science just does not back that up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research \u003ca href=\"https://corvidresearch.blog/2014/06/20/do-crows-reduce-other-songbirds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she’s pointing to\u003c/a> is \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ibi.12223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2014 compilation\u003c/a> of 42 studies that looked at the impact of corvids on dozens of songbirds that were their potential prey. In four out of five cases, the analysis found, corvids had no negative impact on either the reproduction — nesting success and rearing of young — or the abundance of other birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crow battles with a white-tailed kite at Cesar Chavez Park on the Berkeley waterfront. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bob Lewis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crows did have a larger impact than some other corvids on how successful other birds were in reproducing, the study found, but not on their overall numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift says the explanation for this finding — in essence, that even though crows and other corvids do prey upon other birds, the overall impact is small — is “compensatory mortality.” In plain English: It’s a hard world for little things. There are lots of things out there that kill birds and reduce their populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Most people that contact me feeling like crows wiped away all of the birds in their neighborhood and just have this perception that if you see a flock of crows, it means none of your songbirds are going to reproduce, that everything is doomed. The science just does not back that up.’\u003ccite>Kaeli Swift\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It can be easy for us to think, ‘If this predator was gone, then all of the babies they would have eaten will survive,'” Swift says. “That’s really not how it generally works. … The other predators in the system will just come in and take their place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kinds of other predators? Hawks. Owls. Jays. Snakes. Foxes. Raccoons. Cats. And, Swift, notes, some animals we might not think of as a menace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people don’t realize squirrels and chipmunks are huge nest predators, much more impactful than crows,” Swift says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is There a Plan to Reduce the Crow Population?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Well, no. Crow hunts continue in California and across the United States, and there’s lots of video evidence of that on YouTube. But scientists like Swift and Marzluff argue that the best way to deal with crows is to try to understand who they are and what they’re doing here — an echo of biologist E.R. Kalmbach’s long-ago call for crow tolerance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of qualities that I don’t think you can help but find really attractive in crows — like their ability to learn our faces and be pretty excited to see us when you’ve built up a positive relationship with them by feeding them,” Swift says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>A Beakful of Crow Resources\u003c/h4>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FLOEQK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gifts of the Crow\u003c/a>,” by John Marzluff and Tony Angell\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002GJRYWU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crow Planet\u003c/a>,” by Lyanda Lynn Haupt\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://baynature.org/article/are-there-more-crows-and-ravens-in-the-bay-area-these-days/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Are There More Crows and Ravens in the Bay Area These Days?\u003c/a>” by Adrian Cotter in Bay Nature magazine\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/crowitsrelationt621kalm/page/n1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Crow and Its Relation to Man\u003c/a>,” by E.R. Kalmbach, U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://corvidresearch.blog/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corvid Research\u003c/a>, Kaeli Swift’s blog on her own and others’ corvid studies. To get the flavor of her work (and entertaining writing), check out “\u003ca href=\"https://corvidresearch.blog/2018/07/16/putting-the-crow-in-necrophilia/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Putting the ‘Crow’ in Necrophilia\u003c/a>.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Bird-Black-As-Sun-California/dp/0615536328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows and Ravens\u003c/a>“\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Video: \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/i_ta33bMB70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crows playing on a snowy car\u003c/a>. Really.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“They play, so you can watch them play games, particularly the young birds. And they’re just kind of charismatic and goofy in the way that a dog with a really strong personality is. For me, crows have the same sort of quality where, if you watch them, you just see them do all these things that are so interesting that you just kind of can’t help falling in love with them if you just open yourself up to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift says many of our problems with crows may stem from how much we share in common with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re clever, so they’re able to outsmart some of the ways we try to keep them out of our garbage or out of our property,” she says. “They are social, so they are really noisy. They are protective parents, so they can be aggressive around their babies when they feel like they’re being a threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marzluff says it’s important to remember crows are “sentient beings” like us and that we ought to learn to use our big human brains to discover and address the problems we have with a growing crow population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do end every one of my talks about crows with a slide that’s like, ‘OK, these things can get under our skin. Why? And what should we do?’ ” he says. “And my take-home is that we should celebrate them for being successful, and if we need to control them in places, we need to think hard about it. Like they think about how to live with us, we need to think about how to live with them and come up with strategies that will have meaningful effects on their populations — not just kill a bunch of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11800958/crows-are-crowding-your-bay-area-skies-why-2","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_72","news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_33520","news_356"],"tags":["news_18426","news_24374","news_2426","news_25892"],"featImg":"news_11752507","label":"source_news_11800958"},"news_11752268":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11752268","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11752268","score":null,"sort":[1559815202000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"crows-are-crowding-your-bay-area-skies-why","title":"Crows Are Crowding Your Bay Area Skies. Why?","publishDate":1559815202,"format":"image","headTitle":"Crows Are Crowding Your Bay Area Skies. Why? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]Q[/dropcap]uick: What’s the one bird you see and hear most every day, day in and day out, without fail?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re willing to bet that for most of us in the Bay Area, there’s one avian species that predominates in our daily bird experience: Corvus brachyrhynchos, better known to most of us as “the crow.”[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see ’em in the morning, I see ’em in the afternoon, I see ’em up in trees, I see ’em on top of buildings,” said San Mateo native Kevin Branch. “They’re everywhere. I kind of feel like the crow has taken over — big time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Branch has a lot of questions for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> about crows in the Bay Area: Why are there so many? Are crows replacing other familiar birds, such as mockingbirds, blue jays and red-winged blackbirds? Is there a plan to reduce crow populations?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Yes, There Are More Crows\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he most persuasive evidence comes from the Audubon Society and its \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/conservation/join-christmas-bird-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christmas Bird Count\u003c/a>. The count is conducted by more than 2,500 local chapters across the Americas, the Caribbean and Hawaii, each with volunteer observers tallying birds in a predefined 15-mile-diameter circle over a 24-hour period.[aside tag='bay-curious' label='Looking for More Bay Curious?']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Audubon Society’s Golden Gate chapter conducts two counts each December: one in a circle centered in Oakland, covering a big slice of the East Bay Hills and the bay shore from El Cerrito to San Leandro, and the second in a circle centered on San Francisco’s Oceanview neighborhood, which covers the entire city and most of the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of crows in the Oakland circle has grown from 167 in 2000 to nearly 2,500 in 2018 — an increase of nearly 15 times in fewer than 20 years. The numbers for San Francisco are impressive, if not as dramatic. The 2000 count recorded 122 crows, with more recent counts in the 700 to 900 range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s behind the increase? People who watch the birds point to an equation with two major parts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crows Not Welcome\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One argument, which may be true, is that crows are smart birds, and crows have historically inhabited the countryside,” Lewis said. “Farmers put up scarecrows and crows eat corn. We have that kind of feeling about them. But in the country, crows get shot, too, and crows have perhaps discovered in the cities and towns that it’s a much safer place to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crows have been on the receiving end of our hostility for a long time — a creature viewed by many as a voracious destroyer of crops and inveterate opportunist preying on the young of smaller, more valuable, and let’s face it, better-liked birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The attitude of the individual farmer toward the crow should be one of toleration when no serious losses are suffered, rather than one of uncompromising antagonism resulting in the unwarranted destruction of these birds.\u003ccite>E.R. Kalmbach,\u003cbr>\nU.S. Department of Agriculture, 1918\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some, including E.R. Kalmbach, the author of \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/crowitsrelationt621kalm/page/n1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a U.S. Department of Agriculture bulletin\u003c/a> published in 1918, acknowledged that crows sometimes did have a negative impact on crops. But based on an intensive study of what crows actually ate — the stomachs of 2,118 crows were examined for evidence — Kalmbach argued the birds played an essential role in controlling harmful insects, a service that “can ill be spared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The attitude of the individual farmer toward the crow should be one of toleration when no serious losses are suffered, rather than one of uncompromising antagonism resulting in the unwarranted destruction of these birds which at times are most valuable aids to man,” Kalmbach concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That appeal for reason apparently didn’t resonate too widely. The very next year, 1919, the DuPont chemical company launched a National Crow Shoot. DuPont declared “it is certain that some concerted action on the part of farmers and sportsmen” was needed to ensure a bountiful grain harvest. The company promoted another benefit to hardware retailers, who at the time sold firearms — it would help them sell more ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-800x597.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-800x597.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-1020x761.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-1200x895.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ad for DuPont’s 1919 National Crow Shoot, a yearlong event the company promoted as a way to help farmers and sell ammunition. \u003ccite>(Internet Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attempts to eliminate crows weren’t, and aren’t, limited to the countryside. In the early 20th century, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park employed a hunter — usually a city cop — to shoot crows and other unwanted animals, like jays and coyotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it may come as news to city dwellers, but California has a hunting season for crows from Dec. 1 through the beginning of April every year in most of the state’s rural areas. State law allows landowners to kill crows out of season, too, if they “are committing or about to commit depredations upon ornamental or shade trees, agricultural crops, livestock, or wildlife, or when concentrated in such numbers and manner as to constitute a health hazard or other nuisance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the most recent year for which the Department of Fish and Wildlife has numbers, hunters here reported killing about 35,000 crows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Food Means More Crows\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unfriendly humans are just one major factor that has led to more crows joining us in our cities and suburbs. The other?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s kind of simple myself,” said University of Washington wildlife biologist John Marzluff, who has studied crows and other corvids for decades. “Basically, we’ve provided more food for them. Now, the reasons for that may be more complex because it includes things like garbage, like fast-food restaurant waste, like roadkill. So there are a lot of ways we provide them food. But that’s the bottom line. That’s why they’re more abundant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a sort of common-sense objection to that idea: City dwellers have always been pretty messy. Look at the giant open garbage dumps that used to be on the edge of every big city. If garbage is attracting crows, where were they before?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marzluff says it actually works better for crows to spread out their food sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have to have a dump,” he says. “I think actually in terms of territoriality and increasing the breeding population, it’s better to have food more uniformly distributed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752516\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-800x653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-800x653.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-160x131.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-1020x833.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-1200x980.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-1920x1567.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ready availability of food in cities — in this case, meant for some backyard chickens — is a major factor driving crows’ urban population increase, biologists say. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marzluff also says crows have no problem crowding in among us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They only defend enough space that’s necessary to get enough food to raise their young and survive,” he says. “So as more food is available, they can live in tighter and tighter quarters and you can fit more of them into the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Cotter, a web developer for the Sierra Club who is also a citizen scientist and corvid enthusiast, points out that some of the very things we do to make cities more livable for us are also attractive to crows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re sort of ‘crow-forming’ our cities — terraforming, but for crows,” Cotter says. “We plant trees they like to nest in. We plant trees that other birds nest in, and that becomes a source of food. So we’re presenting this sort of lovely banquet for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Are Crows Replacing or Killing Off Other Species of Birds?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Kaeli Swift, another University of Washington biologist who has spent years studying crows and their ways, says research has found that the crow’s reputation for reducing the population of other songbirds is largely undeserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people that contact me feeling like crows wiped away all of the birds in their neighborhood just have this perception that if you see a flock of crows, it means none of your songbirds are going to reproduce, that everything is doomed,” Swift says. “The science just does not back that up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research \u003ca href=\"https://corvidresearch.blog/2014/06/20/do-crows-reduce-other-songbirds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she’s pointing to\u003c/a> is \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ibi.12223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2014 compilation\u003c/a> of 42 studies that looked at the impact of corvids on dozens of songbirds that were their potential prey. In four out of five cases, the analysis found, corvids had no negative impact on either the reproduction — nesting success and rearing of young — or the abundance of other birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crow battles with a white-tailed kite at Cesar Chavez Park on the Berkeley waterfront. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bob Lewis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crows did have a larger impact than some other corvids on how successful other birds were in reproducing, the study found, but not on their overall numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift says the explanation for this finding — in essence, that even though crows and other corvids do prey upon other birds, the overall impact is small — is “compensatory mortality.” In plain English: It’s a hard world for little things. There are lots of things out there that kill birds and reduce their populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Most people that contact me feeling like crows wiped away all of the birds in their neighborhood and just have this perception that if you see a flock of crows, it means none of your songbirds are going to reproduce, that everything is doomed. The science just does not back that up.’\u003ccite>Kaeli Swift\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It can be easy for us to think, ‘If this predator was gone, then all of the babies they would have eaten will survive,'” Swift says. “That’s really not how it generally works. … The other predators in the system will just come in and take their place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kinds of other predators? Hawks. Owls. Jays. Snakes. Foxes. Raccoons. Cats. And, Swift, notes, some animals we might not think of as a menace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people don’t realize squirrels and chipmunks are huge nest predators, much more impactful than crows,” Swift says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is There a Plan to Reduce the Crow Population?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Well, no. Crow hunts continue in California and across the United States, and there’s lots of video evidence of that on YouTube. But scientists like Swift and Marzluff argue that the best way to deal with crows is to try to understand who they are and what they’re doing here — an echo of biologist E.R. Kalmbach’s long-ago call for crow tolerance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of qualities that I don’t think you can help but find really attractive in crows — like their ability to learn our faces and be pretty excited to see us when you’ve built up a positive relationship with them by feeding them,” Swift says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>A Beakful of Crow Resources\u003c/h4>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FLOEQK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gifts of the Crow\u003c/a>,” by John Marzluff and Tony Angell\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002GJRYWU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crow Planet\u003c/a>,” by Lyanda Lynn Haupt\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://baynature.org/article/are-there-more-crows-and-ravens-in-the-bay-area-these-days/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Are There More Crows and Ravens in the Bay Area These Days?\u003c/a>” by Adrian Cotter in Bay Nature magazine\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/crowitsrelationt621kalm/page/n1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Crow and Its Relation to Man\u003c/a>,” by E.R. Kalmbach, U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://corvidresearch.blog/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corvid Research\u003c/a>, Kaeli Swift’s blog on her own and others’ corvid studies. To get the flavor of her work (and entertaining writing), check out “\u003ca href=\"https://corvidresearch.blog/2018/07/16/putting-the-crow-in-necrophilia/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Putting the ‘Crow’ in Necrophilia\u003c/a>.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Bird-Black-As-Sun-California/dp/0615536328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows and Ravens\u003c/a>“\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Video: \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/i_ta33bMB70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crows playing on a snowy car\u003c/a>. Really.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“They play, so you can watch them play games, particularly the young birds. And they’re just kind of charismatic and goofy in the way that a dog with a really strong personality is. For me, crows have the same sort of quality where, if you watch them, you just see them do all these things that are so interesting that you just kind of can’t help falling in love with them if you just open yourself up to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift says many of our problems with crows may stem from how much we share in common with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re clever, so they’re able to outsmart some of the ways we try to keep them out of our garbage or out of our property,” she says. “They are social, so they are really noisy. They are protective parents, so they can be aggressive around their babies when they feel like they’re being a threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marzluff says it’s important to remember crows are “sentient beings” like us and that we ought to learn to use our big human brains to discover and address the problems we have with a growing crow population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do end every one of my talks about crows with a slide that’s like, ‘OK, these things can get under our skin. Why? And what should we do?’ ” he says. “And my take-home is that we should celebrate them for being successful, and if we need to control them in places, we need to think hard about it. Like they think about how to live with us, we need to think about how to live with them and come up with strategies that will have meaningful effects on their populations — not just kill a bunch of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It's not your imagination: There are a lot more crows in parts of the Bay Area than there used to be. Can you learn to love them?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700591270,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":2323},"headData":{"title":"Crows Are Crowding Your Bay Area Skies. Why? | KQED","description":"It's not your imagination: There are a lot more crows in parts of the Bay Area than there used to be. Can you learn to love them?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Crows Are Crowding Your Bay Area Skies. Why?","datePublished":"2019-06-06T10:00:02.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T18:27:50.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/new-bay-curious/2019/06/Crows.mp3","audioTrackLength":6,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/news/11752268/crows-are-crowding-your-bay-area-skies-why","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">Q\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>uick: What’s the one bird you see and hear most every day, day in and day out, without fail?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re willing to bet that for most of us in the Bay Area, there’s one avian species that predominates in our daily bird experience: Corvus brachyrhynchos, better known to most of us as “the crow.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see ’em in the morning, I see ’em in the afternoon, I see ’em up in trees, I see ’em on top of buildings,” said San Mateo native Kevin Branch. “They’re everywhere. I kind of feel like the crow has taken over — big time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Branch has a lot of questions for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> about crows in the Bay Area: Why are there so many? Are crows replacing other familiar birds, such as mockingbirds, blue jays and red-winged blackbirds? Is there a plan to reduce crow populations?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Yes, There Are More Crows\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he most persuasive evidence comes from the Audubon Society and its \u003ca href=\"https://www.audubon.org/conservation/join-christmas-bird-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christmas Bird Count\u003c/a>. The count is conducted by more than 2,500 local chapters across the Americas, the Caribbean and Hawaii, each with volunteer observers tallying birds in a predefined 15-mile-diameter circle over a 24-hour period.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"bay-curious","label":"Looking for More Bay Curious? "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Audubon Society’s Golden Gate chapter conducts two counts each December: one in a circle centered in Oakland, covering a big slice of the East Bay Hills and the bay shore from El Cerrito to San Leandro, and the second in a circle centered on San Francisco’s Oceanview neighborhood, which covers the entire city and most of the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of crows in the Oakland circle has grown from 167 in 2000 to nearly 2,500 in 2018 — an increase of nearly 15 times in fewer than 20 years. The numbers for San Francisco are impressive, if not as dramatic. The 2000 count recorded 122 crows, with more recent counts in the 700 to 900 range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s behind the increase? People who watch the birds point to an equation with two major parts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crows Not Welcome\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One argument, which may be true, is that crows are smart birds, and crows have historically inhabited the countryside,” Lewis said. “Farmers put up scarecrows and crows eat corn. We have that kind of feeling about them. But in the country, crows get shot, too, and crows have perhaps discovered in the cities and towns that it’s a much safer place to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crows have been on the receiving end of our hostility for a long time — a creature viewed by many as a voracious destroyer of crops and inveterate opportunist preying on the young of smaller, more valuable, and let’s face it, better-liked birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The attitude of the individual farmer toward the crow should be one of toleration when no serious losses are suffered, rather than one of uncompromising antagonism resulting in the unwarranted destruction of these birds.\u003ccite>E.R. Kalmbach,\u003cbr>\nU.S. Department of Agriculture, 1918\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some, including E.R. Kalmbach, the author of \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/crowitsrelationt621kalm/page/n1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a U.S. Department of Agriculture bulletin\u003c/a> published in 1918, acknowledged that crows sometimes did have a negative impact on crops. But based on an intensive study of what crows actually ate — the stomachs of 2,118 crows were examined for evidence — Kalmbach argued the birds played an essential role in controlling harmful insects, a service that “can ill be spared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The attitude of the individual farmer toward the crow should be one of toleration when no serious losses are suffered, rather than one of uncompromising antagonism resulting in the unwarranted destruction of these birds which at times are most valuable aids to man,” Kalmbach concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That appeal for reason apparently didn’t resonate too widely. The very next year, 1919, the DuPont chemical company launched a National Crow Shoot. DuPont declared “it is certain that some concerted action on the part of farmers and sportsmen” was needed to ensure a bountiful grain harvest. The company promoted another benefit to hardware retailers, who at the time sold firearms — it would help them sell more ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-800x597.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-800x597.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-1020x761.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875-1200x895.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/bresports7072unse_0974-e1559711865875.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ad for DuPont’s 1919 National Crow Shoot, a yearlong event the company promoted as a way to help farmers and sell ammunition. \u003ccite>(Internet Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attempts to eliminate crows weren’t, and aren’t, limited to the countryside. In the early 20th century, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park employed a hunter — usually a city cop — to shoot crows and other unwanted animals, like jays and coyotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it may come as news to city dwellers, but California has a hunting season for crows from Dec. 1 through the beginning of April every year in most of the state’s rural areas. State law allows landowners to kill crows out of season, too, if they “are committing or about to commit depredations upon ornamental or shade trees, agricultural crops, livestock, or wildlife, or when concentrated in such numbers and manner as to constitute a health hazard or other nuisance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the most recent year for which the Department of Fish and Wildlife has numbers, hunters here reported killing about 35,000 crows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Food Means More Crows\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unfriendly humans are just one major factor that has led to more crows joining us in our cities and suburbs. The other?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s kind of simple myself,” said University of Washington wildlife biologist John Marzluff, who has studied crows and other corvids for decades. “Basically, we’ve provided more food for them. Now, the reasons for that may be more complex because it includes things like garbage, like fast-food restaurant waste, like roadkill. So there are a lot of ways we provide them food. But that’s the bottom line. That’s why they’re more abundant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a sort of common-sense objection to that idea: City dwellers have always been pretty messy. Look at the giant open garbage dumps that used to be on the edge of every big city. If garbage is attracting crows, where were they before?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marzluff says it actually works better for crows to spread out their food sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have to have a dump,” he says. “I think actually in terms of territoriality and increasing the breeding population, it’s better to have food more uniformly distributed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752516\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-800x653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-800x653.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-160x131.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-1020x833.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-1200x980.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o-1920x1567.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/47940703622_077e88602a_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ready availability of food in cities — in this case, meant for some backyard chickens — is a major factor driving crows’ urban population increase, biologists say. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marzluff also says crows have no problem crowding in among us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They only defend enough space that’s necessary to get enough food to raise their young and survive,” he says. “So as more food is available, they can live in tighter and tighter quarters and you can fit more of them into the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Cotter, a web developer for the Sierra Club who is also a citizen scientist and corvid enthusiast, points out that some of the very things we do to make cities more livable for us are also attractive to crows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re sort of ‘crow-forming’ our cities — terraforming, but for crows,” Cotter says. “We plant trees they like to nest in. We plant trees that other birds nest in, and that becomes a source of food. So we’re presenting this sort of lovely banquet for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Are Crows Replacing or Killing Off Other Species of Birds?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Kaeli Swift, another University of Washington biologist who has spent years studying crows and their ways, says research has found that the crow’s reputation for reducing the population of other songbirds is largely undeserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people that contact me feeling like crows wiped away all of the birds in their neighborhood just have this perception that if you see a flock of crows, it means none of your songbirds are going to reproduce, that everything is doomed,” Swift says. “The science just does not back that up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research \u003ca href=\"https://corvidresearch.blog/2014/06/20/do-crows-reduce-other-songbirds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she’s pointing to\u003c/a> is \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ibi.12223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2014 compilation\u003c/a> of 42 studies that looked at the impact of corvids on dozens of songbirds that were their potential prey. In four out of five cases, the analysis found, corvids had no negative impact on either the reproduction — nesting success and rearing of young — or the abundance of other birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Crow-and-Kite-6817.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crow battles with a white-tailed kite at Cesar Chavez Park on the Berkeley waterfront. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bob Lewis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crows did have a larger impact than some other corvids on how successful other birds were in reproducing, the study found, but not on their overall numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift says the explanation for this finding — in essence, that even though crows and other corvids do prey upon other birds, the overall impact is small — is “compensatory mortality.” In plain English: It’s a hard world for little things. There are lots of things out there that kill birds and reduce their populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Most people that contact me feeling like crows wiped away all of the birds in their neighborhood and just have this perception that if you see a flock of crows, it means none of your songbirds are going to reproduce, that everything is doomed. The science just does not back that up.’\u003ccite>Kaeli Swift\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It can be easy for us to think, ‘If this predator was gone, then all of the babies they would have eaten will survive,'” Swift says. “That’s really not how it generally works. … The other predators in the system will just come in and take their place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kinds of other predators? Hawks. Owls. Jays. Snakes. Foxes. Raccoons. Cats. And, Swift, notes, some animals we might not think of as a menace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people don’t realize squirrels and chipmunks are huge nest predators, much more impactful than crows,” Swift says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is There a Plan to Reduce the Crow Population?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Well, no. Crow hunts continue in California and across the United States, and there’s lots of video evidence of that on YouTube. But scientists like Swift and Marzluff argue that the best way to deal with crows is to try to understand who they are and what they’re doing here — an echo of biologist E.R. Kalmbach’s long-ago call for crow tolerance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of qualities that I don’t think you can help but find really attractive in crows — like their ability to learn our faces and be pretty excited to see us when you’ve built up a positive relationship with them by feeding them,” Swift says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>A Beakful of Crow Resources\u003c/h4>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FLOEQK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gifts of the Crow\u003c/a>,” by John Marzluff and Tony Angell\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002GJRYWU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crow Planet\u003c/a>,” by Lyanda Lynn Haupt\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://baynature.org/article/are-there-more-crows-and-ravens-in-the-bay-area-these-days/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Are There More Crows and Ravens in the Bay Area These Days?\u003c/a>” by Adrian Cotter in Bay Nature magazine\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/crowitsrelationt621kalm/page/n1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Crow and Its Relation to Man\u003c/a>,” by E.R. Kalmbach, U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://corvidresearch.blog/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corvid Research\u003c/a>, Kaeli Swift’s blog on her own and others’ corvid studies. To get the flavor of her work (and entertaining writing), check out “\u003ca href=\"https://corvidresearch.blog/2018/07/16/putting-the-crow-in-necrophilia/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Putting the ‘Crow’ in Necrophilia\u003c/a>.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Bird-Black-As-Sun-California/dp/0615536328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows and Ravens\u003c/a>“\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Video: \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/i_ta33bMB70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crows playing on a snowy car\u003c/a>. Really.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“They play, so you can watch them play games, particularly the young birds. And they’re just kind of charismatic and goofy in the way that a dog with a really strong personality is. For me, crows have the same sort of quality where, if you watch them, you just see them do all these things that are so interesting that you just kind of can’t help falling in love with them if you just open yourself up to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift says many of our problems with crows may stem from how much we share in common with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re clever, so they’re able to outsmart some of the ways we try to keep them out of our garbage or out of our property,” she says. “They are social, so they are really noisy. They are protective parents, so they can be aggressive around their babies when they feel like they’re being a threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marzluff says it’s important to remember crows are “sentient beings” like us and that we ought to learn to use our big human brains to discover and address the problems we have with a growing crow population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do end every one of my talks about crows with a slide that’s like, ‘OK, these things can get under our skin. Why? And what should we do?’ ” he says. “And my take-home is that we should celebrate them for being successful, and if we need to control them in places, we need to think hard about it. Like they think about how to live with us, we need to think about how to live with them and come up with strategies that will have meaningful effects on their populations — not just kill a bunch of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11752268/crows-are-crowding-your-bay-area-skies-why","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_72","news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_33520","news_356"],"tags":["news_18426","news_24374","news_2426","news_25892"],"featImg":"news_11752507","label":"source_news_11752268"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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