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Attack of the Azolla!
Birds of the Season-March 2024
Bird Walks & Field Trips
Broad-billed Hummingbird | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Zone-tailed Hawk | Dusky-capped Flycatcher | Tropical Kingbird | THICK-BILLED KINGBIRD | Purple Martin | Brown Thrasher | American Dipper | White-Wagtail | Lark Bunting | Clay-colored Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Green-tailed Towhee | Black-and-white Warbler | Cape May Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Palm Warbler | Painted Redstart | Hepatic Tanager
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Wetland and migratory bird conservation in the era of climate change https://t.co/yFqxLtTlrq
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Shorebird migration in the Pacific Flyway—hops, skips, and trans-continental jumps https://t.co/TzPP1zqMHb
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Research on the importance of #nativeplants to #birds in your neighborhood in Los Angeles, from the research lab of… https://t.co/PwfU3JQsle
Azolla covers habitable locations within the nature preserve at Madrona Marsh as an invasive species. A thin layer of Azolla, a free-floating freshwater fern, covers the marsh with alternating hues that range from fluorescent green to dark burgundy. Ferns are some of the first plants to originate before gymnosperms and angiosperms evolved.