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On a relatively clear day, Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands is the place to be for raptor lovers. More raptors fly through this area than anywhere else along our country’s Pacific coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most common raptors to be seen alongside the Golden Gate at this time include: red-tailed hawks (\u003cem>Buteo jamaicensis\u003c/em>), red-shouldered hawks (\u003cem>Buteo lineatus\u003c/em>), Cooper’s hawks (\u003cem>Accipiter cooperii\u003c/em>), sharp-shinned hawks (\u003cem>Accipiter striatus\u003c/em>), American kestrels (\u003cem>Falco sparverius\u003c/em>) and peregrine falcons (\u003cem>Falco peregrinus\u003c/em>). In the last ten years at the Marin Headlands, 28,587 raptors were seen on average per season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_8864\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/09/ggro2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8864\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8864\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/09/ggro2.jpg\" alt=\"The Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Banding Program Manager, Chris Briggs, releases a Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii) for onlookers. Photo courtesy of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Banding Program Manager, Chris Briggs, releases a Cooper’s hawk (\u003cem>Accipiter cooperii\u003c/em>) for onlookers. 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In the past few weeks, four red-tailed hawks have also been tagged with transmitters that use GPS and GSM technology, allowing the public to \u003ca href=\"http://www.parksconservancy.org/conservation/plants-animals/raptors/research/gsm-tracking.html\">view the birds’ movements from an online map\u003c/a>. Last year, the organization worked with researchers at University of California, Davis to re-examine West Nile Virus in raptors. Other topics GGRO has studied include parasite loads and lineages amongst red-tailed hawks and the movement of these migrating birds through VHF telemetry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_8873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/09/ggro4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8873\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8873\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/09/ggro4.jpg\" alt=\"To aid in the quick identification of birds, GGRO is now issuing color-coded bands. Left: Red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) are marked with lavender bands. Right: Cooper's hawks (Accipiter cooperii) are marked with green bands. 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With the public’s help, these birds can be spotted, identified by species simply by their band color, and their band number along with which leg is banded can be reported to the \u003ca href=\"www.reportband.gov\">Bird Banding Laboratory\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy raptor viewing and see you on the hill!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Blue-footed_Booby/id\">Blue-footed boobies\u003c/a> are most commonly seen down in the Gulf of California or the Galapagos, but this week they’ve been \u003ca href=\"http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/bfbo_2013/\">invading the Southern California coast\u003c/a> and making their way up north, where very few have come before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_9087\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/09/bluefootedbooby.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9087\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/09/bluefootedbooby.jpg\" alt=\"A blue-footed booby fails to blend in with the pelicans and cormorants at Año Nuevo State Park earlier this week. It's the brown and white bird at the lower left. (Photo: Jennifer Rycenga)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A blue-footed booby fails to blend in with the pelicans and cormorants at Año Nuevo State Park earlier this week. It’s the brown and white bird at the lower left. (Photo: Jennifer Rycenga)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before this week, there’d been one sighting of a blue-footed booby in San Francisco, and just two others in the rest of Northern California. Now there have been more than a dozen. There have been sightings in Point Reyes, \u003ca href=\"http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/Blue-footedBoobyP1120990s.htm\">near Lands End\u003c/a> in San Francisco (where on one day, birders were reporting two blue-footed boobies in the area at once) and at Moss Beach and other spots in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really thrilling to be watching an incidence of this rarity,” said Jennifer Rycenga, the president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sequoia-audubon.org/index.html\">Sequoia Audubon Society\u003c/a>, which is the San Mateo County chapter. “It’s kind of like a Halley’s Comet moment. It might not happen again in my lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixteen year-old Logan Kahle was the first person to spot the bird in San Francisco a few days ago. On Thursday, he watched while one perched on the rocks near Lands End. He said when he first spotted a blue-footed booby, he had a hard time keeping his spotting scope on it because he was trembling with excitement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_9098\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 346px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/09/ebird-e1379635476777.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9098 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/09/ebird-e1379635476777.png\" alt=\"Blue-footed booby sightings in Northern California reported to the website eBird. Click on the image to go to the interactive map on eBird.org.\" width=\"346\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue-footed booby sightings in Northern California reported to the website eBird. Click on the image to go to the interactive map on eBird.org.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Winning the lottery is a good comparison,” he said. “Because it’s something that you may work at for years and years and years, and after ten years or so, you’ll get one stellar find.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists aren’t sure yet why the boobies are here. \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/09/16/39295/blue-footed-booby-fever-hits-la-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+893KpccSouthernCaliforniaNews+(KPCC%3A+News)\">Some have speculated\u003c/a> it could be connected to food supply issues in their usual territory, but Jack Dumbacher, the curator of ornithology and mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences said it may be difficult to find the exact cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When events like this happen, then it gives us an opportunity to say, ‘What’s different?'” he said. “Why did they expand? Is there something that’s not working for them back at home that they had to leave? Or is there something that’s beginning to work for them up here that never had before?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the blue-footed boobies in California seem to be juveniles that haven’t yet developed the bright blue feet of the adult birds. But check out this video of blue-footed boobies showing off their fancy feet during their mating dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgNPaZ5Qdq0\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"audio-wrap\">\n\u003ch2>Listen:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>http://kqed02.streamguys.us/anon.kqed/radio/science/2013/09/2013-09-16-science.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Much has been made of the Rim Fire being one of California’s largest “on record,” and the biggest burn yet seen in the Sierra Nevada. But it depends on what record you’re looking at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_8760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/09/rimfire-featured.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8760\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/09/rimfire-featured.jpg\" alt=\"Flames from the Rim Fire consume trees on August 25, 2013 near Groveland, California. 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But “big” didn’t always mean catastrophic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_8681\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 216px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/09/IMG_4113-216x162.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8681 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/09/IMG_4113-216x162.jpg\" alt=\"USFS geographer Carl Skinner is piecing together a fire history of California by studying tree rings. (Craig Miller/KQED)\" width=\"216\" height=\"162\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">USFS geographer Carl Skinner is piecing together a fire history of California by studying tree rings. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For 25 years, Carl Skinner and his colleagues at the U.S. Forest Service have been building a kind of “pre-history” of fire in California by scrutinizing tree rings. The shelves of his lab near Redding are piled high with crosscut slabs of big sugar pines and other trees from northern California forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We find 1822 fires all over the place,” Skinner told me while sorting through wooden slabs. “It was a very dry year. 1729 is another one. There’s a number of these very pronounced drought years that give us an idea of what to expect in a year like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trees tell the story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner pointed to intermittent black marks within the tree rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The areas here are scars, where the fire came along and killed a very small section of the tree right here, and then this is the healing where the tree tries to heal over,” he observed. “And then a few years later another fire came and then it heals, and then a few years later another fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracking backward in time, from the outside in, something surprising emerges. 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