If you've ever asked a roommate or loved one "hey, what's that chirping outside?," then you know the answers can run the guess-tastic gamut.
Is it a mockingbird? A dove? A pigeon? A gull?
Hmm.
Well, probably not the last bird, as gulls do rather sound like gulls.
The word “wildlife” often conjures images of exotic creatures in lush, foreign scapes – lions, tigers, elephants, and many other species not found on this continent.
Citizens for LA Wildlife (CLAW), a local volunteer conservation group, wants to shift that perspective; wildlife walks among us, even within the urban confines of downtown Los Angeles.
https://southpasadenan.com/citizens-for-la-wildlife-conservation-group-presents-at-la-middle-school/
Calling all community scientists in Los Angeles!
Biologists at Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area have launched a crowdsourcing effort to catalog tens of thousands of wildlife photos that have been collected over the past year and were taken from several dozen cameras that have been set up along the Los Angeles River.
