Natural History Wanderings

The San Francisco Chronicle  reported on the to encourage new nesting areas for Heron who have lost breeding grounds in downtown Oakland, CA

The giant canopies where the long-legged fowl have gathered for nearly a decade are no longer there, and the humans who removed their nests are hoping to lure them to a new breeding ground about a half-mile away at Lake Merritt with decoys equipped with loudspeakers to broadcast recordings of heron mating calls.

Read full story at Wildlife experts hope plan to relocate Oakland herons will fly – SFGate