Photos / Sounds
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Common Murre (Uria aalge)Observer
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May be exhibiting health stress
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Fringed Willowherb (Epilobium ciliatum)Observer
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Epilobium ciliatum Raf.
NATIVE
Habit: Perennial herb, erect, +- loosely clumped, with basal rosettes or fleshy shoot, generally strigose in lines, glandular distally, occasionally spreading-hairy. Leaf: 1--12 cm, narrowly lanceolate to ovate, fine-toothed; veins conspicuous; petiole 0--5(8) mm. Inflorescence: densely strigose, +- spreading-hairy, generally glandular. Flower: hypanthium 0.5--2.6 mm; sepals 2--7.5 mm; petals white to rose-purple; stamens <= pistil; stigma club- or head-like. Fruit: 15--100 mm, hairy; pedicel 0--15(40) mm. Seed: 0.8--1.6 mm, ridged, hair-tuft deciduous. Chromosomes: 2n=36.
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Mediterranean Katydid (Phaneroptera nana)Observer
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Visiting the Branching Phacelia
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Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica)Observer
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Seven Pacific Loon on the Ballona Creek estuary
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Southern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus ssp. helleri)Observer
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Small Southern Pacific Rattlesnake beneath the Bike Path railing close to the water
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Gray Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca nitens)Observer
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Gray Bird Grasshopper in a Camellia
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Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus)Observer
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Hermit Thrush visiting the bath
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Wilson's Warbler (Cardellina pusilla)Observer
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Wilson's Warbler in a Ficus tree after hearing a call.