Cisco Behaviour
No observations regarding Cisco behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Ciscos ...
San Francisco Sparrow (Arremon franciscanus)
Brazil
The San Francisco Sparrow was only described as a species as recently as 1997.
San Francisco To Have Bird-Safe Buildings?
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San Francisco Garter Snake Species Profile
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San Francisco Garter Snake Stats ...
San Francisco Alligator Lizard
Original Description
Elgaria coerulea - (Wiegmann, 1828) - Isis von Oken, Vol. 21, p. 380 ...
San Francisco Garter Snake
Thamnophis sirtalis
Distribution: San Mateo County, California ...
Lake Herring, Cisco and Inland Tullibee are the same fish.
Cisco ...
San Francisco Alligator Lizard
Sighting:
Pescadero Marsh Natural Preserve, San Mateo County, California ...
Francisco José Poyato-Ariza, A revision of the ostariophysan fish family Chanidae, with special reference to the Mesozoic forms (Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 1996)
External links
FishBase entry for milkfish
SEAFDEC milkfish aquaculture info ...
Francisco José López-López
Grupo de Estudios en Biodiversidad de Anfibios y Reptiles Neotropicales -REMPHIBIA
Amphibian Specialist Group ASG SSC IUCN, Species Survival Commision
International Union for Nature Conservation IUCN.
Popayán ...
San Francisco's feral parrots [Aratinga erythrogenys] are native to Ecuadoran highlands. The original flock were wild-captured birds imported from their native land in 1993 or shortly before. There are now over 200 of the birds in San Francisco.
San Francisco County, California, United States
Details
February 28, 1961 ...
San Francisco garter T. s. tetrataenia
From California's Biodiversity Experiment
Red-Sided Garter T. s. parietalis
From Manitoba Wildlife & Ecosystem ...
Blackfin cisco
Coregonus nigripinnis
The blackfin cisco, also known as the jumbo herring, was once found in lakes Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior. It was a silver fish with black fins and a black stripe on its spine.
Bridge use by peregrine falcons in the San Francisco Bay area. In: Bird, David M.; Varland, Daniel E.; Negro, Juan Jose, eds. Raptors in human landscapes: Adaptations to built and cultivated environments. San Diego, CA: Academic Press: 15-24.
Coregonus zenithicus, Shortjaw Cisco
Coris cuvieri, African Coris
Coris batuensis, Batu Coris
Coris ballieui, Lined Coris
Coris formosa, Queen Coris
Coris flavovittata, Yellowstripe Coris
Coris gaimard, Yellowtail Coris
Coris aygula, Clown Coris ...
4 million to squeeze the world's largest colony of salmon-eating Caspian terns off a Columbia River island so they will establish new nesting areas as far away as San Francisco Bay. (more) ...
Fernandez-Jalvo, Yolanda, Ortega, Francisco, Sanches-Chillon, Begona, Poyato-Ariza, Francisco, Perez-Moreno, Bernardino P. (2001) "A Cretaceous Pellet" Nature 409:98-99 22 February 2001
^ Zhang, F. and Zhou, Z.
Salt Lake City, California and San Francisco were few of the cities where House Sparrows were introduced.
In 1851, the House Sparrow was brought in Brooklyn, New York for the first time, in North America.
South of San Francisco Bay, all steelhead are all winter-run. In the Santa Clara River watershed, the O.
Francisco Hernandez (1514-1578) has alluded to it as Gyrinus edulis or atolocatl, and as lusus aquarum, piscis ludicrus, or axolotl, which latter name has remained in use, in Mexico and elsewhere, to the present day.
Unpublished Report, San Francisco State University. 29p.
Parker, Michael S. 1994. Feeding ecology of stream-dwelling Pacific Giant Salamander larvae (Dicamptodon tenebrosus). Copeia 1994:705-718.
Welsh, Hartwell H., Jr. 1985.
initial discovery (1976) and the scientific description (1983), became the focus of an elaborate practical joke by two friends of Leighton Taylor, Richard Ellis of the American Museum of Natural History and John McCosker, director of San Francisco's ...
Distribution and population This species was known for over 150 years, from small numbers of traded birds and a hunted bird taken by von Spix, until it was traced in 1985-1986 to near the rio São Francisco in north Bahia, Brazil.
Salt marsh harvest mice have a very limited range-they live only in San Franscisco Bay's tidal marshes and diked salt marshes-and they have very specific habitat requirements. They need dense cover.
Louis, San Francisco. 687 pp.; La Marca, E. 1992. Catálogo taxonómico, biogeográfico y bibliográfico de las ranas de Venezuela. Cuadernos Geográficos, Universidad de Los Andes. 1:1-197.
5ft Great White and was brought to the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, USA. The aquarium was donut-shaped, and visitors watched from a central viewing area.
- a female solitary bee, according to a year 2000 San Francisco State University news release, “‘Spanish Fly’ Beetles Use Sex and Subterfuge to Infiltrate Bee’s Nests.
Within a hollow bridge support structure located in San Francisco Bay, leopard sharks and piked dogfish have been observed engaging in a unique feeding strategy.
Self sustaining populations of released or escaped Yellow-chevroned Parakeets established themselves in California (Los Angeles, San Francisco); Florida (Miami), as well as Connecticut and New York.
The mission blue (Icaricia icarioides missionensis) is a small butterfly that lives in coastal scrub of San Francisco and Marin peninsulas (in California, on the western coast of the USA). This butterfly has a wingspan of about 1 inch (2.5 cm).
phantastica, the Fernandina form, is known from only one specimen, a male, found by members of the 1906 San Francisco Academy of Sciences expedition. Nothing more turned up until 1964 (!) with the discovery of putative tortoise droppings.
Elephant seals once ranged from Magdalena Bay Baja California to the San Francisco Bay region.
Specific conservation actions have benefited the California Clapper Rail, including the creation of the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, including over 40,000 acres of marshland. On the refuge, Blair Island is now being restored.
It ranges along the West Coast from SW British Columbia to San Francisco in the coastal ranges.
S.o. occidentalis is found both along the west slope of the Sierras in California and in the coastal ranges from San Francisco to San Diego.
S.o.
have been described as distinct subspecies: along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts from New England south through the Caribbean (S.a. antillarum); along rivers in the central United States (S.a. athalassos); and on the Pacific Coast from San Francisco ...
Peacocks, trees, and palms were added to the park, with plantings obtained from Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Roads and trolley lines were extended to include "Waikiki Road at Makee", today's intersection of Kalakaua and Kapahulu Avenues.
Brazil (Bahia in the Valley of the Rio San Francisco, Lago de Sobradinho, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais s. in s. Mato Grosso and Sao Paulo to Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay, Uruguay and n. Argentina s.
Trips from San Francisco to the Farallon Islands. June - Novenber. Ran trips to Midway Atoll. (See Wandering Birder) when it was open. Marcy England, Oceanic Society Expeditions; Fort Mason Center; Building E; San Francisco, CA 94123; (415)474-3385 ...
Academic Press, San Francisco.
MacDonald, David 1984. The Encyclopedia of Mammals. Facts on File.
Moss, Cynthia 1982. Portraits in the Wild. University of Chicago Press.
Nowak, Ronald. 1991.
Alcatraz island, western California, in San Francisco Bay,
was named by Spanish Juan Manuel de Ayala who explored the
island in 1755. He named it Isla de los Alcatraces (Isle of the
Pelicans), after the large pelican population there.
By 1966 the saltmarsh harvest mouse only occurred north and south of San Francisco Bay, California, , entirely within the narrow belt of wetlands surrounding the Bay. Its range continues to shrink because of habitat loss.
Originally found only on the Pacific slope from Baja California to San Francisco, Anna's Hummingbird has increased its population and expanded its breeding range in recent years to Vancouver, British Columbia, east to southern Arizona.
A Golden Eagle at San Francisco Zoo (Image by ManYee DeSandies at pics4learning.com)
Wingspan: 200 - 220cm.
Lifespan: About 15 years.
North American River Otters, San Francisco Zoo
Photograph by Dmitry Azovtsev. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
MAMMAL FACTS ...
The bones may belong to a Columbian mammoth, Mammuthus columbi, a species known to have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area during the Late Pleistocene. Photo by D.J.
xanthosternos spanned a large area to the north and west of the Rio São Francisco. Currently, however, their range has been reduced to the area north of the Rio Jequitinhonha to the Rio Paraguaçú.
Reeves, R.R., Stewart, B.S. and S. Stephen. The Sierra Club Handbook of Seals and Sirenians. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1992.
Ridgway, S.H. and R.J. Harrison (Eds). Handbook of Marine Mammals: Volume 2: Seals. London. Academic Press, 1981.
and Reece, Jane B. 2002. Biology, 6th edition. Pearson Education, Inc., San Francisco, CA.
Wallace, Robert A. 1997. Biology: The World of Life, 7th edition. Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
Red Tailed Hawk in financial district, San Francisco
zyrcster
Emeryville
Recent Encounters ...
Thousands of birds migrate together each year to traditional wintering sites like the Chesapeake Bay, San Francisco Bay, Gulf Coast, and Mexico.
In the United States, most apparently overwinter in coastal areas, along the West Coast from San Francisco south, and along the East Coast from South Carolina to central Florida, as well as in all of the Gulf States, west through Texas, ...
A species of, well, California and the West, and not found in South Dakota. These photos are from Point Reyes National Seashore, north of San Francisco, and in the eastern Cascades in Oregon. Click on the thumbnail for high-resolution photos.
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Albino Snakes ...
No crest
Blue cheeks and nape
Brownish gray back
No white in wings or tail
© lee.karney2, San Francisco, California, February 2007 ...
Animal Diversity Web (animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu)
ARKive: Images of Life on Earth (arkive.org)
Birdlife International: fact sheet (birdlife.org)
San Francisco Zoo: fact file (sfzoo.org)
Crowned Eagle (wikipedia.org) ...
This species occupies a small region of California, in the Coast Range west of San Francisco Bay from southern Santa Cruz County to southern Mendocino County, where it is replaced to the north by a close relative, D. tenebrosus.
Giles, R.H., Jr. 1978. Wildlife management. W.H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco, Calif., 416pp.
Distribution
: These reptiles can be found throughout northern South America in the Amazon and Orinoco River basins as well as regions of the Parana and Sao Francisco River drainage area.
Did not occur on campus historically, but populations from southern California expanded northward throughout this century. One on campus in 1893 may have been the first record from the San Francisco Bay area.
 See also: Snake, Siren, Reptile, Lizard, Turtle
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