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It includes the southwestern Santa Cruz Mountains. [1][2] Avian habitats include: coastal prairie, northern coastal scrub, maritime ponderosa pine forests, coast redwood forests, interior chaparral and woodlands, and mixed evergreen forests. Included are: common (C), fairly common (F), and uncommon (U) sightings/occurrences. [3]
Natural Bridges State Beach is a 65-acre (26 ha) California state park in Santa Cruz, California, in the United States. The park features a natural bridge across a section of the beach and a eucalyptus grove provides habitat for monarch butterflies. During monarch butterfly migration, Monarch Butterfly Natural Preserve has up to 150,000 monarch ...
Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women and one girl, between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents. Kemper was nicknamed the Co-ed Killer, as most of his non-familial victims were female college students ...
827 [1] Big Basin Redwoods State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of California, located in Santa Cruz County, about 36 km (22 mi) northwest of Santa Cruz. The park contains almost all of the Waddell Creek watershed, which was formed by the seismic uplift of its rim, and the erosion of its center by the many streams in its bowl-shaped ...
Santa Rosa Island holds two groves of the Torrey pine subspecies Pinus torreyana var. insularis, which is endemic to the island. Torrey pines are the United States' rarest pine species. [ 1 ] The islands also house many rare and endangered plants, including the island barberry, the island rushrose, and the Santa Cruz Island lace pod.
The watershed is approximately 1,300 square miles (3,400 km 2) and covers portions of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Benito, and Monterey Counties. [17] The Pajaro River mainstem begins just west of San Felipe Lake , [ 18 ] also called Upper Soap Lake, which is a permanent natural lake formed by the confluence of Pacheco Creek , Tequisquita ...
Island scrub jay. The island scrub jay (Aphelocoma insularis), also known as the island jay or Santa Cruz jay, is a bird in the genus, Aphelocoma, which is endemic to Santa Cruz Island off the coast of Southern California. Of the over 500 breeding bird species in the continental U.S. and Canada, it is the only insular endemic landbird species.
This is a comprehensive listing of the bird species recorded in Channel Islands National Park, which is in the U.S. state of California.This list is based on one published by the National Park Service (NPS) that as of November 2011 contained 387 species.