SF News Sunday Links: Jeffries, Booker Hold Sit-In At Capitol To Protest GOP Budget Plan A Tenderloin resident was critically injured and a dog was killed during a small apartment fire on Friday; SF State has completed a new state-funded student affordable housing complex; and Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker held a sit-in protest Sunday on the Capitol steps.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Oakland Zoo Recovers Five Out of Six Escaped Birds The Oakland Zoo over the weekend successfully recaptured five out of six exotic birds that escaped their damaged enclosure last week, after a big eucalyptus tree came crashing down and tore the netting.
Arts & Entertainment Black Bird-Watcher Who Spoke Out About SF Racism a Decade Ago Celebrates Black Birders Week You may have missed it in the crush of news about protests across the country and the globe last week, but it was also #BlackBirdersWeek, in which black birders and naturalists took to social media to share the photographs of their hobby.
SF News Alleged Drone Killing of Hawk In Dolores Park Has Birder Community Ruffled We don’t know for sure that a drone killed a hawk in Dolores Park on Christmas Eve, but one earwitness account was enough to get avian advocates and Nextdoor gadflies furious at the possibility. Animal Care and Control has yet to confirm a cause of death for the bird.
SF News Unhatched Hummingbird Egg Delays $70M Richmond Bridge Project Infrastructure projects getting delayed by endangered or protected species, fish, fowl and otherwise, are not unique to the Bay Area. But currently there's a big bridge improvement project on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
Arts & Entertainment New Fun Weekend Activity: Watching Herons Hunt, Kill, And Swallow Gophers Whole In Golden Gate Park @coolbiRdpics yesterday in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco pic.twitter.com/xIUarZzncH— Elliot Loh (@Loh) May 7, 2016 Local Twitterer Elliott Loh was hanging out in Golden Gate Park last month when he
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Citywide Productivity Plummets As SF Peregrine Falcon Cam Goes Live Sure, DC has their eagle-cam or whatever, and while that definitely is cool, they're not the only ones with a livestream of a raptor once almost driven to extinction nesting in their metro
SF News Beware Of Crazed Blackbird That Attacks All Passing Humans Near Stow Lake Over in Golden Gate Park, there is a rogue blackbird which, maybe under the pretenses of protecting a nest or maybe because it's just insanely aggressive, has made a habit of pouncing and
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Nesting Hummingbird kicking it at home. Photo by Gerard Livernois.
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On The Penguin Love Front.... An African penguin grabs a Valentine's card given to it as a treat at the California Academy of Sciences. Awwww.
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Stains A terrifying collection of birds on the Embarcadero, as seen by Steven Bracco.
Arts & Entertainment Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About the Farallon Islands But Didn't Care to Ask On a clear day, you may have seen the spikes of rock jutting out from the Pacific off the coast of San Francisco. If you're new here, you probably asked what those were,
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: A Pigeon Lover's Dream Come True A bicyclist and pigeons on Chula Lane come together in peanut butter-and-chocolate-like harmony in this photo shot by Gerard Livernois. Huzzah, pigeons! (Our apologies to those of you who, inexplicably, loathe the winged
Arts & Entertainment Barn Owls, Flamingos and Cat Burglars: Your Animal News Digest If you haven't noticed, we're avid followers of animal-related news in the Bay (we're far less interested in children, as evidenced by the city's demographic information). Here's a handy digest of Monday's animal-related
Arts & Entertainment And Now, A Quiet Moment With Some Wild Parrots The wild parrots of San Francisco aren't confined just to Telegraph Hill anymore, as featured in that 2003 documentary. There's a flock of them down in Brisbane now, and one around Alamo Square,
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In The Castro... Parrot 1: "He said yes!" Parrot 2 [tearfully]: "We've been waiting so long for this moment."
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: California Quail Stud Photo by andertho. He explains how he snapped this shot: Taken in Joseph D. Grant County Park, Santa Clara County, California, USA. I set up my Nikkor 40mm f/2.8 (w/ 1.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Starling Murmuration In Downtown S.F. Our dear friends at Barbary Coast Consulting captured this mesmerizing video of a starling murmuration. What makes this video so special, compared to other murmuration videos, is that this one occurs in downtown
SF News Berkeley Law Students Charged In Fowl Las Vegas Murder Justin Teixeira and Eric Cuellar, the two UC Berkeley law students accused of beheading a rare bird and toying with the carcass one night in Las Vegas earlier this year, have been charged
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get A Load Of 4505 Meats' Remarkable Turducken Turkey stands as one of the least favorite things come Thanksgiving Day. Except for a few slices of unusually moist dark meat, the big bird pales in comparison to the stuffings (walnut- and
