Wings over the SF Bay
Автор: Sreedhara Alavattam (Cliks4kix)
Загружено: 2025-11-28
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The Pacific Flyway acts as a crucial "superhighway" in the sky for millions of birds migrating between the Arctic and South America, with the San Francisco Bay serving as its most vital rest stop. In this urbanized estuary, specific habitats play distinct, life-saving roles: the Shell Bar in Foster City provides a rare, safe roosting sanctuary where exhausted shorebirds—such as Willets and Marbled Godwits—can rest during high tides, protected from rising waters and land predators. Meanwhile, the vast wetlands of the Don Edwards and Ravenswood preserves function as nutrient-rich feeding grounds ("refueling stations"), where tidal mudflats offer the invertebrates necessary for birds to rebuild their fat reserves before continuing their thousands-of-mile journey. Protecting these interconnected sites is essential because the loss of even one link—whether it be a resting roost or a feeding marsh—can break the chain of migration, threatening the survival of species that have traversed these routes for millennia.
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