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Marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa)
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Purse seiner heading out to fish for California market squid (Loligo opalescens) with an oil rig in the background.
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Purse seiner heading out to fish for California market squid (Loligo opalescens) with an oil rig in the background.
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Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
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Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
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Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
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Great Egret (Ardea alba)
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California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus), adult female
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Napping Western Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus)
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Western Snowy Plover Habitat Restoration
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American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) Male
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Sage Sparrow (Amphispiza belli)
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Tiger Rattlesnake (Crotalus tigris)
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“Hot Shot” Wildland Firefighters conducting a prescribed burn of European Beachgrass (Ammophila arenaria), an invasive weed of dune habitats along coastal California.
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California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus californianus) on the Point Bennett Pinniped Breeding Rookery rookery at sunset.
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Weed Workers- Wildlands Conservation Science field technician treating an isolated population of invasive Pampas grass on some of the tallest sea cliffs on the Pacific coast. Look for the orange hat.
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Bull Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris) lounging together on the beach during the summer molting season.
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Western Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)
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Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga angustirostris) pups resting on the beach.
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Freedive with a Great White Shark
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Great Egret (Ardea alba)
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Weed Workers- “Hot Shot” Wildland Firefighters conducting a prescribed burn of European Beachgrass (Ammophila arenaria), an invasive weed of dune habitats along coastal California. Part of a restoration program to improve habitat for the federally endan
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A feather roused Black Turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala)
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February on the Carrizo Plain
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Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris) on the Point Bennett Pinniped Breeding Rookery during the pupping season.
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Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
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Greater yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) and Black-bellied plovers (Pluvialis squatarola) evading a surfer.
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Female California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) and her pup over looking the offshore “Castle Island” during a rain storm
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Great Egret (Ardea alba) in the foreground & a Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) in the background
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Royal Tern (Sterna maxima)
