12+ hour, 18+ min ago  (303+ words) If you haven't been to the Golde Gate Park Panhandle in the last week or so, you have not stumbled upon these large, six-foot-high crows standing, mid-caw, across from each other on the grass. The cast-bronze crows, named Lucinda and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (370+ words) There's some good news on the local raptor front, which we all could use after a rough few years for Bay Area peregrine falcons: Four chicks have hatched this spring in the nest box atop San Jose City Hall, and…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (394+ words) A local celebrity of a very particular kind, Mark Bittner, has passed away, 21 years after he helped put San Francisco's wild parrots on the map in The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. "There was another thing I noticed about Mark…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (333+ words) A pair of California condors who were part of a group released into the wild several years ago appear to be nesting in a redwood tree in remote Humboldt County, and tending to an egg. It may be the first…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (468+ words) That two-year-old male mountain lion who wandered up from the Peninsula and ended up scaring dozens of people around Pacific Heights on Monday has been released back to the wild, way down in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was major…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (395+ words) A young mountain lion made a surprise appearance in San Francisco Monday, in the Pacific Heights neighborhood, and as of Tuesday morning it had been found by Animal Care & Control. A mountain lion was spotted Monday traipsing across the street…...