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Slow down for the baby gulls that are learning how to fly.
Opinion

Slow down for the baby gulls that are learning how to fly.

  • Erik Chalhoub
  • Aug 4, 2026

If it looks like a bird and squawks like a bird, it doesn’t always mean it can fly like a bird.

A leptospirosis outbreak is killing sea lions earlier in the season than normal.
News

A leptospirosis outbreak is killing sea lions earlier in the season than normal.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Aug 28, 2025

The Marin County-based Marine Mammal Center serves a 600-mile stretch of California coastline, including the Monterey Bay. The nonprofit left …

SPCA Monterey County takes in record numbers of injured animals.
News

SPCA Monterey County takes in record numbers of injured animals.

  • Erik Chalhoub
  • Aug 7, 2025

Like humans, many young animals desire independence and want to leave the nest, perhaps before they are ready.

Snowy plovers saved from precarious cliff near the Salinas River released back into the wild.
News

Snowy plovers saved from precarious cliff near the Salinas River released back into the wild.

  • Erik Chalhoub
  • Aug 23, 2024

Six endangered snowy plovers were released back into the wild on Aug. 9, more than a month after their eggs were rescued from the edge of a cliff.

Floodwaters reached the Elkhorn Slough. What chemicals did they carry with them?
News

Floodwaters reached the Elkhorn Slough. What chemicals did they carry with them?

  • David Schmalz
  • Mar 16, 2023

When the Pajaro River levee breached shortly after midnight March 11, floodwaters made their way south down Salinas Road, and later that Satur…

The queen of Central California’s condors was on the brink of death. It took a team to save her.
831 (Tales from the Area Code)

The queen of Central California’s condors was on the brink of death. It took a team to save her.

  • David Schmalz
  • Sep 29, 2022

On June 24, condor 171 – aka Traveler – entered the condor feeding pen at Pinnacles National Park, and the pen’s door shut behind her.

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