Ridgeway's rails need cover of Kendall-Frost Preserve.

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2018/oct/01/waterfront-secretive-birds-corner-mission-bay/

For migrating hummingbirds, the grocery store is the ocotillo and the food is the nectar held within its blossoms. As the tiny birds arrive each spring, they are finding more and more ocotillos are not open for business.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/desert-magazine/2018/10/01/californias-hummingbirds-trouble-heres-how-you-can-help/1488118002/

A beautiful morning in a Sacramento rice field is complete with a rainbow and an active grind of geese. The big Pacific Flyway migration is underway in the Sacramento Valley, with millions of birds expected in the coming months.

https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/state/california/article219484590.html

Visitors to Huntington State Beach may not realize it, but they could be witnessing an incredible recovery story taking wing just past the fringes of their towels.
For the first time in 50 years, Western snowy plovers have successfully nested and fledged chicks at this beloved California beach.

http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/opinion/tn-dpt-me-commentary-snowy-plover-20181005-story.html

The designation comes from the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, so named for being signed in Ramsar, Iran in 1971. It recognizes globally-important wetlands.

To get it, a site must meet at least one of nine criteria. Those include things like supporting endangered species. Elkhorn Slough met all nine criteria.

http://www.kazu.org/post/elkhorn-slough-named-wetland-international-importance#stream/0

The burrowing owl population has been slowly declining in California, and particularly in the Bay Area, likely due to the impact of development. The owls that arrive here in October, when they arrive, probably come from Idaho and points north, where they breed in the summertime. They come here to escape the frigid northern winters. If they stay, they’ll rest up and build their strength and then migrate back north around March.

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/10/10/a-rare-burrowing-owl-spotted-at-cesar-chavez-park-in-berkeley

The Center for Biological Diversity today tripled the reward to $15,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the May 2018 shooting and subsequent death of a California condor in Tulare County. Condors are protected under California law and the federal Endangered Species Act.

https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2018/california-condor-10-11-2018.php

For the last couple of weeks, California Gulls in the Oceano Dunes area have been turning up with metal dart injuries.

The Pacific Wildlife clinic has been treating the birds in Morro Bay.

https://www.keyt.com/news/san-luis-obispo-county/california-gulls-shot-with-metal-darts-in-the-oceano-dunes-1/806114252

Elements present on the East County side of Mount Diablo have created the perfect recipe for nurturing raptors such as the golden eagle, a massive bird with a 7-foot wingspan.

Doug Bell, East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) wildlife program manager, has conducted in-depth studies on the birds of prey. He noted the district’s volunteer Golden Eagle Monitoring Team (GMT) monitors about 40 golden eagle nests, which are considered territories, in the two county areas each year.

https://www.thepress.net/features/golden-eagle-population-soars-in-east-county/article_e9ef2c38-cd96-11e8-ba44-0be2efc32e5f.html

Another seagull has been found wounded by a metal dart in Oceano.

It’s the fourth California Gull recently found with injuries but this bird is said to be in the worst condition so far.

https://ksby.com/news/local-news/2018/10/12/more-seagulls-shot-with-darts-spotted-in-oceano