3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California
Some 3,000 elegant tern eggs were abandoned at a Southern California nesting island after a drone crashed and scared off the birds, a newspaper reported Friday. Two drones were flown illegally over the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach in May and one of them went down in the wetlands, The Orange County Register said. Now, during the month when the white birds would be overseeing their eggs as they begin to hatch, the sand is l…
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Frightened terns abandon 3,000 eggs after drone illegally crashes on beach
Wild Rescue: Wildlife Biologist Finds, Brings Injured Bald Eagle To Hughson Wildlife Center For Treatment
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HUGHSON (CBS13) – A bald eagle is a majestic beast in the wild, but one injured female eagle is now in the care of the Stanislaus Wildlife Care Center in Hughson– and it didn’t get there easily.
“It’s not every day you’re trying to wrangle an eagle off the front of a bass boat with a fishing net,” said Mark Abraham, a biologist with the California Department of Fish And Wildlife.
He was alerted to the injured eagle by a local fishing guide and went out to take a look. Abraham had quite the time getting this bird captured at Don Pedro Reservoir in Tuolumne County in early April.
The salmon are 3-6 inches long now, but could be 20 inches by next year and full grown by 2023.
The Golden Gate Salmon Association has been pushing for Tuesday’s release because the salmon were never going to make it to the bay by themselves.
“They’re real lousy swimmers,” said John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association. “They can’t swim out to the ocean from the Central Valley; they get carried by a river that functions like a conveyor belt but in drought the conveyor belt is broken.”
That delivery system is also broken by a much longer term problem climate change.
Oil spill response
Q: I ve been reading news reports about the recent oil spills in the San Francisco Bay Area and learned that the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is the lead state agency handling oil spills. How did the department assume this authority? (Dave)
A: CDFW’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) was established by the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act of 1990. The legislation came on the heels of two major spills, the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, in which 11 million gallons of crude oil was released, and the American Trader spill in Orange County in 1990 that resulted in a release of 416,598 gallons of crude oil.