This remarkable story of one resourceful and persistent plover illustrates the interconnectedness of important and diverse bay area landscape features, and how active restoration efforts are helping provide multiple options for local wildlife.
Science Tags: Wetlands
Shared Birds, Shared Opportunities
Earlier this spring we visited MSP+ grant partners in El Salvador and Guatemala. Both SalvaNATURA and FUNDAECO are working closely with local communities and salt producers as part of their projects to raise awareness of the needs of shorebirds and more.
Preparing for Takeoff: Field Report and Lessons Learned from a Mexico Field Site Visit
There’s nothing quite like the thrill of launching a new program. And there’s really nothing like getting out from behind our computer screens and out into the field.
Rails, Camera, Action!
Last year, we began a new pilot study to investigate how extreme high tides are really affecting these secretive marsh birds. We’re putting cameras out during the winter high tides to spy on the rails without disturbing them.
Lynne Stenzel: the Woman, the Myth, the Legend
This year marks a big milestone in Point Blue’s people history. Lynne Stenzel retired at the end of March after 50 years of being on staff with the organization. She’s the last to retire of the folks who were with the organization starting in the 1970s and has such a wealth of knowledge about the organization’s history: its science, its culture, its characters.
STRAW Program Assumes Management of Restored Novato Baylands
Point Blue Conservation Science’s STRAW (Students and Teachers Restoring A Watershed) Program is excited to step into a management role at the Novato Baylands Restoration site. STRAW has played a key role in engaging communities to restore this former airfield since the beginning and our staff are looking forward to working with site partners, the
Una Mujer con Mucha Fuerza en Buena Compañía /A Powerful Woman in Good Company
I didn’t expect to be moved to tears when I sat down to interview Diana Eusse. Diana is the South American Lead of our Migratory Shorebird Project partnership and Biologist with Asociación Calidris. I met with her in early March 2022 during one of her visits to the United States. Her perspective and approach to collaboration is palpable.
Planning for Change: New Tools to Support Bird Habitat in the Central Valley
How can water managers in California’s Central Valley make sure enough water is allocated to birds as the region faces changing climate patterns while still helping the state reach its ambitious 30×30 conservation goals? New planning tools are here to help.
Carving Out Support for Conservation
By Lishka Arata, Senior Communications Coordinator When Melinda Whipplesmith Plank reached out to Point Blue last spring to ask if we were interested in an artist collaboration that would support our conservation work, our immediate answer was an enthusiastic, “Yes!” Millie, as she prefers to be called, is a woodblock print artist based out of
Science News: Guatemala, Spain, A Record Capture, and more
Building Capacity in Guatemala We are excited to welcome Guatemala as the 13th and most recent country to join the Migratory Shorebird Project! Initiated in 2011, the Migratory Shorebird Project is the largest ongoing coordinated survey of wintering shorebirds on the Pacific Coast of the Americas, and is a cooperative effort of conservation science organizations and
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