A crested auklet was spotted on Farallon Islands, marking “the first-ever record of this species” on the islands, a conservation group said. Photo from Melisa Amato/USFWS “Among the usual crowd” of ...
For years, I had dreamt of visiting the Farallon Islands, a series of sharp rocky spires only 25 miles off the San Francisco coast. Mysterious and fascinating, they are often hidden by a dense curtain ...
“Among the usual crowd” of birds off the California coast, one caught the eye of conservationists. The bird, spotted on Farallon Islands in July, had a “bright orange bill and distinctive forehead ...