East Bay Regional Park District has issued a rattlesnake advisory.
Wildlife
Watch the UC Berkeley peregrine falcons live
Lou’s out. Annie has a new he-falcon. Stay tuned to all the action atop the UC Berkeley Campanile via the Cal webcam.
For 82 years, birds have been counted around Christmas in the East Bay
Data collected by hundreds of citizen scientists will be used by bird researchers across the world.
All of Tilden’s Little Farm rabbits are dead after rare viral outbreak
Seven rabbits were infected by the myxoma virus, which is fatal to pet rabbits and is primarily spread by mosquitoes. The California strain of the disease has no vaccine.
Sautéed roadkill dinner parties are just the start of Berkeley author’s adventures in ‘rewilding’
Jessica Carew Kraft’s new book chronicles her paleolithic Berkeley lifestyle of tracking coyote scat near Grizzly Peak, foraging for loquats and redwood sorrel and feeding her daughters raccoon meat.
Newts are safe in tanks as UC Botanical Garden patches the bottom of the pond that was killing them
Newts were getting lodged in holes at the bottom of the leaky Japanese Pool and were unable to surface for air. They’ll be returned to the pond once it’s repaired.
New buildings could be less deadly for Berkeley birds
The city will require large housing projects and office buildings to include materials that prevent birds from flying into windows and other reflective features.
Squished newts are drowning at bottom of leaky UC Botanical Garden pond
The garden is trying to raise $150,000 to seal the 80-year-old pond’s cracks, which the newts are getting stuck in, plug sinkholes and resurface the basin.
Photos: Little falcons Zephyr, Rosa and Luna learn to fly
The raptors hatched in early April in a nest box at the top of UC Berkeley’s Campanile.
Live rabid bat found by Berkeley dad wows 4-year-old daughter
“I was just worried about it,” Eliana said of the bat her father found on the stairs of their central Berkeley home. Residents are warned not to touch wild animals.
3 falcon chicks losing their fluff but now have names
Nearly 3,700 people cast votes to name Annie and Lou’s falcon offspring atop the UC Berkeley Campanile. “Ursula” barely missed the cut.
3 falcon chicks are banded, ravenous and ready for you to name them
A contest to name the chicks began Friday. Less than a month ago, they hatched in their gravel nest box; now they are nearly full-sized and eating plenty of pigeon meat.