Projects from Santa Clara

Alum Rock City Park, San Jose, CA icon

Alum Rock City Park, San Jose, CA

Help us catalog all the species found within Alum Rock Park! This information may be used as part of our s...
Barn Owl Diet (SCC) icon

Barn Owl Diet (SCC)

This project is a collection of photos showing the prey evidence (bones, insect parts, plant material) foun...
Barn Owl Nests (SCC) icon

Barn Owl Nests (SCC)

This project contains observations of barn owl nests in Santa Clara County, CA. References: * How to Ne...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For April: Western Fence Lizard icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For April: Western Fence Lizard

April brings the return of the City Nature Challenge, an international citizen science event organized by t...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For August: Variegated Meadowhawk icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For August: Variegated Meadowhawk

Dragonflies feel the time passing. By August they’re entering into their migration: clouds of large, fast v...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For December: Banana Slugs icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For December: Banana Slugs

The world may not get any weirder — from a human perspective at least — than the bizarre, slime-trailing ba...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For February: Yellow-eyed Ensatina icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For February: Yellow-eyed Ensatina

As rain saturates the ground and streams rise, salamanders come out to wander the forest floor. There are m...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For January: Goldback Fern icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For January: Goldback Fern

Rain encourages ferns like the goldback to uncurl their leaves and spread out. You can find this California...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For July: Cuckoo Wasp icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For July: Cuckoo Wasp

The peak of summer is your chance to see perhaps the most gorgeous insect in California: the unbelievably i...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For June: Black Tegula Snail icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For June: Black Tegula Snail

June brings fog and some of the West Coast’s best low tides. While color and beauty abound in every tidepoo...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For March: Hedgepeth's Sapsucker icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For March: Hedgepeth's Sapsucker

Want to find green in nature for St. Patrick’s Day? Want to find something cooler than a four-leaf clover? ...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For May: Acmon Blue Butterfly icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For May: Acmon Blue Butterfly

As it warms up into May, insects come alive. The West Coast native Acmon blue butterfly is common here, but...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For November: Acorn Woodpecker icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For November: Acorn Woodpecker

November 2020 seems like a good month to look for a bird that symbolizes sharing, community, and vicious fi...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For October: Metepeira Spider icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For October: Metepeira Spider

October in the Bay Area brings heat waves and east winds rather than crackling leaves and dreary skies. But...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For September: Golden-Crowned Sparrow icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For September: Golden-Crowned Sparrow

The autumnal equinox means the return of a Bay Area favorite: the common golden-crowned sparrow arrives som...
Bio 100 icon

Bio 100

Explore life forms around my house.
Biol 42 Spring 2018 Field Final Picchetti Ranch icon

Biol 42 Spring 2018 Field Final Picchetti Ranch

To enter observations made in the field at Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve to complete the Biol 42 Spri...
California Newt Hatchlings icon

California Newt Hatchlings

I stumbled across a cemented in water trough that was completely full approximately 5'wide and 4' deep that...
Carex of San Mateo County and Santa Cruz Mountains Bioregion icon

Carex of San Mateo County and Santa Cruz Mountains Bioregion

[Carex](https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=8902) is the [largest genus in California...
Citizen Science Association 2015 San Jose BioBlitz icon

Citizen Science Association 2015 San Jose BioBlitz

Join us as we document the biodiversity of parks and green spaces within walking distance of the San Jose C...
CNPS SCV Wildflower Show Collection at Rhus Ridge icon

CNPS SCV Wildflower Show Collection at Rhus Ridge

Document the plants that are collected for the CNPS SCV Wildflower Show on the Rhus Ridge Trail.
Coyote Meadows San Jose BioBlitz 2017 icon

Coyote Meadows San Jose BioBlitz 2017

On 11/5/17, this project is to make all observations at the Coyote Meadows site, home to a proposed park, u...
Fungi of Foothill College icon

Fungi of Foothill College

This project aims to explore the biodiversity of fungi on the Foothill Community College campus. Citizen sc...
Great Horned Owl Prey (SCC) icon

Great Horned Owl Prey (SCC)

This project collects observations of Great Horned Owl prey species found in owl pellets.
Identifying Trees in San Jose Parks icon

Identifying Trees in San Jose Parks

To identify whether the majority of trees in San Jose Parks are native or non-native.
McClellan Ranch Preserve Master Private Observations icon

McClellan Ranch Preserve Master Private Observations

This is for my personal observations and data collection on the McClellan Ranch Preserve Ecosystem
Meso-carnivore Scats at Rancho San Antonio OSP icon

Meso-carnivore Scats at Rancho San Antonio OSP

Conservation Scats is a citizen science project started by graduate students at the University of Californi...
Mt Lion Observations - Coe Park icon

Mt Lion Observations - Coe Park

I created this project in iNaturalist specifically for keeping track of Mt Lion sightings, and recording of...
Natural World of Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve icon

Natural World of Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve

This will be an ongoing catalog of the species that I observe at Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve over t...
Owl Pellets found in Santa Clara County, CA icon

Owl Pellets found in Santa Clara County, CA

This project is a collection of owl pellets found in Santa Clara County, CA, USA.
Owl Prey - Unknown owl species (SCC) icon

Owl Prey - Unknown owl species (SCC)

This project is a collection of owl prey observations where the owl species cannot be determined. There are...
Palo Alto Baylands Bioblitz icon

Palo Alto Baylands Bioblitz

You bring your smart phone and tons of enthusiasm. We’ll rally some experts and folks who know the trails h...
Palo Alto Baylands Bioblitz 2018 icon

Palo Alto Baylands Bioblitz 2018

Join us for some citizen science! We'll be bioblitzing in the Palo Alto Baylands on Saturday, February 17, ...
Palo Alto Baylands/Byxbee Mini Bioblitz icon

Palo Alto Baylands/Byxbee Mini Bioblitz

A mini-bioblitz for the Moore Foundation Service Day! On November 20th, National Philanthropy Day, staff at...
Pearson-Arastradero Preserve Biotic Project icon

Pearson-Arastradero Preserve Biotic Project

Help us document life in the Arastradero Preserve/Foothills Park in Palo Alto, California. This iNaturalist...
Pearson-Arastsradero Preserve Herbarium Project icon

Pearson-Arastsradero Preserve Herbarium Project

This project is to document in photos the Herbarium collection of press plants collected from Pearson-Arast...
Population trends for California amphibians in response to drought icon

Population trends for California amphibians in response to drought

I am a PhD student at CU-Boulder interested in observations of native amphibians within the California Bay ...
Rosicrucian Park, San Jose icon

Rosicrucian Park, San Jose

This is a space for us to share images of all the beautiful beings that live in Rosicrucian Park.
Santa Clara County Bio-Blitz icon

Santa Clara County Bio-Blitz

For all life-forms in the county. This project is inspired by the San Mateo County Bio-blitz, which has be...
Santa Cruz Mountains Biodiversity icon

Santa Cruz Mountains Biodiversity

Discover and track the diverse lifeforms of the Santa Cruz Mountains!
Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve icon

Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve

I've just started to become aware of how florally diverse Sierra Azul is, by walking along Woods Trail.
Trees of McClellan Ranch Preserve icon

Trees of McClellan Ranch Preserve

Join us in identifying all of the tree species in McClellan Ranch Preserve. Take a stroll down the creek t...
Western Leatherwood in Foothills Park icon

Western Leatherwood in Foothills Park

Mapping of Dirca occidentalis within the boundaries of Palo Alto Foothills Park
Wildflowers of San Francisco Bay Area icon

Wildflowers of San Francisco Bay Area

Collection of wildflowers found in greater San Francisco Bay Area. Ranging from Point Reyes National Seash...
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