BIRDS IN THE BAYLANDS

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BIRDS IN THE BAYLANDS

• Marisa, Jack, and Savannah

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Background History of Birds and the Baylands

• Clapper Rail 1700s shot/200 a day by European
  settlers
• Ohlone Tribe near bay, hunted for birds
• Garbage and Sewagein the bay from expanding of
  Menlo Park and Palo Alto

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The Importance of the Bay and Birds

• Birds help agriculture/seed dispersion
• Bay important migration stopping point
• Birds home
• Pacific route

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Science Slide-Bird Beak Buffet

• Point of experiment-displays vitality of bay
• Different adaptations
• Relationships-household items and birds

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Data Analysis

• Shorebirds in the Spring of 1989
• Shorebirds in Fall of 1989
• Shorebirds in Winter of 1989

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In the News

• How would golf courses effect the birds
• Migratory birds-serious problem-hit fences
  /lightposts
• Birds use this place as a motel-home is destroyed
• It would be quite an impact.

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Field Notes

• Canoe trip to Palo Alto Baylands
• Water Quality Testing
• Restoration

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Current Efforts at Solution

• Problem taking over baylands territory/hunting
  birds to extinction
• Solution Fish and Wildlife Refuge buying area to
  save and restore the area
• Companies helping Save the Bay, USGS, and Golden
  Gate Audubon

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Global Issues

• Madagascar
• Forest diminished
• Woodenergy
• Industry

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Possible Action Steps

• Organizations you can join
• The goals thast the organizations try to
  accomplish
• Properly dispose of waste material

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Works cited

• ltltBillsgtgt Food, Feeding Habits and Digestions
  Apr. 24, 06
• Environmental Problems in Madagascar.
• lthttp//www.refer.mggt 21 Apr. 2006.
• Get involved with save the bay.
  ltwww.savethebay.comgt 14 Apr. 2006.
• Global Environmental Issues The importance of
  birds.
• ltwww.iwokrama.orggt 19 Apr. 2006.
• Grotenhuis, Louse. Personal interview. 20 Apr.
  2006.
• Neroulis, Nicole. Birders teed of at Bayfront
  Park plan Menlo Park land for proposed
• golf course is habitat for 100 species. San
  Mateo Country Times 25 Feb. 2006
• San Francisco Bay. lthttp//www.manomet.orggt 18
  Apr.
• 2006.
• SFBBO. lthttp//www.sfbbo.orggt 21 Apr. 2006.
• Steinhart, Peter. Californias Wild Heritage
  Threatened and endangered Animals in the
• Golden State. California Dept. of fish and Game,
  1990
• The Ohlone. lthttp//www.savesfbay.orggt 21 Apr.
  2006.

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Image Citations

• Save the Bay. Image. ltwww.savethebay.net.gt May
  1st, 2006
• Pelican Image. Image.lthttp//www.giftedtwist.gtAp
  ril 29, 06
• Bamboo skewers.Image. lthttp//www.zhejiangbamboo
  .gt April 29, 2006
• Strainer SpoonImage.lt http//cache.tias.gt Aprl
  29, 2006
• HeronImage. lthttp//www.exzooberance.gtApril 30,
  2006
• Flying BirdsImage.lthttp//www.media.niu.edu/gtMay
  3rd, 2006
• Canoe imagesImage.lthttp//www.amonline.net.gtAu
  May 2, 2006
• Storm Drain picImage.lthttp//www.iowawaterqualit
  y.orggt
• Golf CoursesImage.lthttp//www.ahherald.comgt

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Image Citations Continued

• Modern Map of SF baylands image.lt
  www3.noaa.govgt May 2 2006
• Historic Map of SF Baylands image.ltwww3.noaa.gov
  gt May 2 2006
• Sumer Lake in Migratory BirdsImage.
  http//www.summerlakeinn..com, 2006
• Craig and Jack Image.lthttp//nova.menloschool.or
  ggtRoutes Image ltearthday.wilderness.orggt May 2
  2006
• Madagascar White eye. Image. lthttp//borderland-
  tours.comgt 04 May. 2006