Showing posts with label California endemic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California endemic. Show all posts
Monday, November 26, 2018

Why Yes, I am the Center of the Universe: Yellow-billed Magpie on the Tuolumne River

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Just a quick single picture tonight. This is a Yellow-billed Magpie ( Pica nuttalli ), one of California's very few endemic bird spe...
Monday, September 3, 2018

A Near-California Endemic, the California Towhee on the Tuolumne River

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Endemic that is, if we are talking about all of California, Alta and Baja, and also count a bit of southern Oregon. California doesn'...
Sunday, December 3, 2017

A California Endemic, A Nuttall's Woodpecker on the Tuolumne Parkway

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Sometimes I am just being a snot, by posting pictures of birds that no one outside of California can see unless they come here. There aren...
Monday, March 6, 2017

A California Endemic, Nuttall's Woodpecker on the Tuolumne River

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The Tuolumne River Parkway Trail has been closed for a couple of weeks while the operators of Don Pedro Reservoir try to build up some stora...
Monday, May 2, 2016

Nuttall's Woodpecker, a California Endemic, on the MJC East Campus

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I don't see them that often, but the Nuttall's Woodpecker ( Picoides nuttallii ) is a California original. There are a few rare si...
Friday, September 4, 2015

California's Endemic: Yellow-billed Magpie on the West Campus, Back from the Brink, Maybe?

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California has precious few endemic species of birds. In one sense, this fact seems odd, given the many ecological "islands" in ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Bird of the Day: Nuttall's Woodpecker in the "Pasture"

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I was getting back into my habit of morning walks today and noticed a lot of racket from some Mockingbirds in the nearly dead oak tree nex...