BIOBLITZ Join the Northcoast Regional Land Trust and Friends of the Dunes to restore biodiversity at Freshwater Farms Reserve, followed by a smartphone-powered BioBlitz on Saturday, Aug. 25 from 9:30 a.m. to noon. A BioBlitz is an intensive one-day study of biodiversity in a specific location; in this case, participants will collect citizen science data…
The Bar-tailed Godwit, Arcata Marsh Bird of the Year
Sue Leskiw Special to the Union ARCATA – “It was the most exciting and most frustrating experience I’ve had birding,” Max Brodie told attendees of the Friends of Arcata Marsh (FOAM) annual meeting on Sept. 24. As a relatively new birder who wasn’t able to get a photo of the rarity he spotted on July…
Do-gooders de-grossify Godwit destination
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA BOTTOM – The old Demello place on V Street between Samoa Boulevard and Old Samoa Road has come to woe after its sale to Caltrans four years ago. Left vacant, the once-proud Arcata ranch house has fallen prey to trash dumpers and graffiti vandals, the eyesore causing concern among…
Letters to the Editor, April 15, 2015
The Godwit Deception It was Edmund Burke who said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. So I cannot remain silent any longer regarding a great injustice that is perpetrated every spring in our community. I refer, of course, to Godwit Days, a blatant form of…
Godwit Days are here again
HUMBOLDT – Andy Mack, this year’s Godwit Days keynote lecturer, hunts down bird dung in the rainforest of Papua New Guinea. And it’s no run-of-the-mill avian excrement he’s looking for, but that of the cassowary, a large, flightless bird related to emus and ostriches. The San Diego Zoo dubs these shy residents of the deep…
Godwit Days Trips Selling Out, But Still Plenty to Go Around – April 6, 2011
The 16th Annual Godwit Days Spring Migration Bird Festival kicks off with a Dawn Chorus at the Arcata Marsh at 6:30 a.m. Thursday, April 14 and ends at 3 p.m. on Wednesday the 20th with a “casual, wind-down birding trip.” In between are crammed nearly 100 field trips, boat tours and excursions, lectures, and workshops.