City Nature Challenge April 25th-28th, 2025
City Nature Challenge 2025: 4 days to capture the amazing wild world around you!Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the City Nature Challenge (CNC) began in 2016 as a competition between Los…
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2025 Wings Over Bolsa Calendar
Filled with beautiful photographs, all taken here at Bolsa Chica, the 2025 calendars are now available to order. Created with photographs from 20 generous photographers, the calendar highlights some of…
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Call for 2025 Wings Over Bolsa Calendar Photo Submissions
It’s time to prepare for the Bolsa Chica Land Trust’s 2025 Wings Over Bolsa calendar. We encourage you to submit your photos to the annual calendar and would love to…
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Sharing Stories Among the Tarplant
BCLT hosts Irvine Ranch Conservancy for a Comprehensive Interpretive Hike In June, the Bolsa Chica Land Trust partnered with Irvine Ranch Conservancy to host a comprehensive interpretive hike for a…
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Birding with Babs: The Brant and Fall Migration
Fall Migration of Waterfowl to Bolsa Chica by Babs Levitan It’s Fall at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve (BCER) and migrating water fowl are arriving daily after flying as many…
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Vulture Culture: The Ups and Downs of the Turkey Vulture
Written by Mike Armstrong (updated 2025) Everybody knows something about the California Condor: endangered, awesome and so on. But this article is about one of his relatives that isn’t endangered…
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Bird of the Month- February 2020 is American Pipit
While they may be called the American Pipit, these little birds can also be found in Greenland, eastern Russia, and parts of northern China and Mongolia. February’s bird of the month…
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Bird of the Month- January 2020 is Allen’s Hummingbird
If you’re not quick, you might miss this speedy little bird as it whizzes past defending its territory from an intruder. These birds are small, fast, and territorial, but you…
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Bird of the Month- December is Northern Shoveler
Why such the long face? Because these birds are dabbling ducks and use their long bills to forge for yummy food in the mudflats. The males show colorful plumage when…
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Bird of the Month- November is the Sage Thrasher
Shy, secretive, and rarely seen, this bird species is a unique visitor to Bolsa Chica’s Mesa coastal sagescrub habitat and cactus stands. This is the smallest thrasher in North America…
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