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Galt Winter Bird Festival showcases the area’s animals, insects
Cathie Lazier, left, shows oak galls, abnormal growths from an
oak tree, to Hunter Adversalo, 3, and his mom Tara Adversalo during
the Galt Winter Bird Festival at McCaffrey Middle School in Galt on
Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012.
Ian Jonsson/News-Sentinel
Galt Winter Bird Festival showcases the area’s animals, insects
Jacov Rousseau, right, tells Leyton Munoz, 3, about the python
he is petting during the Galt Winter Bird Festival at McCaffrey
Middle School in Galt on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012.
Ian Jonsson/News-Sentinel
Galt Winter Bird Festival showcases the area’s animals, insects
Jordan Alcantar, 5, left, looks through a microscope while Jacob
bolster, 8, right, dissects owl pellets during the Galt Winter Bird
Festival at McCaffrey Middle School in Galt on Saturday, Jan. 28,
2012.
- More about the Cosumnes River Preserve
-
It is the only remaining unregulated river on the western slope
of the Sierra Nevada. In its lower reaches, it flows through one of
the biologically richest regions in California’s Central Valley
before merging with the Mokelumne River to flow into the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and eventually the Pacific Ocean.
The Cosumnes River Preserve was created to safeguard much of
this unique landscape. The free-flowing nature of the river allows
frequent and regular winter and spring overbank flooding that
fosters the growth of native vegetation and the wildlife dependent
on those habitats.
More than 250 bird species, more than 40 fish species and some
230 plant species have been identified on the preserve.
— Source: www.cosumnes.org
- Sandhill crane threats
-
Sandhill cranes currently face threats to their remaining
suitable winter habitats in the Central Valley of California.
Pending urban development and the shift from corn and rice
production to vineyards is likely to dramatically diminish what
little remains of the winter habitat of the migratory lesser and
greater sandhill cranes in this region.
The greater Sandhill crane, which is a state-listed threatened
species, exhibits a high degree of loyalty to its specific
wintering grounds, and any disturbance there will result in them
being uprooted. If habitats are developed and lost, it is highly
unlikely that Sandhill cranes from another location and population
will come and take their place.
The lesser Sandhill cranes constitute two smaller subspecies of
the Sandhill crane and are subject to the same threats of habitat
loss as the greater Sandhill crane.
— Source: www.soscranes.org
Posted: Monday, January 30, 2012 12:00 am
|
Updated: 6:39 am, Mon Jan 30, 2012.
Galt Winter Bird Festival showcases the area’s animals, insects
By Katie Nelson/News-Sentinel Staff Writer
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Geese lounged close together, a snake slithered about on a
display table and ducks of all shapes and sizes soared overhead at
Robert L. McCaffrey Middle School on Saturday, as hundreds came to
celebrate Galt’s fifth annual Winter Bird Festival.
Bird tours, duck calling lessons and dozens of displays about
the numerous species of animals that inhabit wetlands in and around
Galt drew crowds of all ages who were not only interested in
learning about areas like the Cosumnes River Preserve, but also
about conservation efforts for animals like the Sandhill crane.
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