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Benny Isaac Jacobs-Schwartz

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👇Tonight @ 7:30 PM PST ✨ password is - 661045

Tune in tonight to catch me live with the Santa Bárbara Audubon Society!

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Catch me LIVE as a I present virtually for some am

Catch me LIVE as a I present virtually for some amazing @audubonsociety chapters this fall!
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I’ll be adding the ZOOM link for next weeks virtual presentation later today!
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Brown-throated Parakeet (Eupsittula pertinax) show

Brown-throated Parakeet (Eupsittula pertinax) showing of it’s dexterous feet and strong beak!
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Masked Flowepiercer (Diglossopis cyanea) another s

Masked Flowepiercer (Diglossopis cyanea) another spectacular resident from the cloudy forests of NW Ecuador. 💧🧿💙

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Golden Tanager (Tangara arthus) you see one, you’ve seen them all 😉 😁💛🏆
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Fawn-breasted Brilliant (Heliodoxa rubinoides) a g

Fawn-breasted Brilliant (Heliodoxa rubinoides) a glittering gem from the shadowy depths of the cloud forest. ✨
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Grab’n’Go Osprey Style
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Grace’s Warbler (Setophaga graciae) looking for

Grace’s Warbler (Setophaga graciae) looking for insects like I’m looking for ecological sustainability and responsible land management. 🙋‍♂️
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With so much of the world still on fire, including my home state and many of the local areas, it’s important to understand why. ->
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Of course one part of the equation is the warming climate and decreased precipitation we experience across the state, however another aspect to consider is one that escapes many conversations.
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For about 13,000 years indigenous people managed, worked, and cultivated the lands we currently live on. One of the most potent ways they managed the land was through the use of fire.
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Burning occurred for a variety of reasons: from maintaining meadows, clearing underbrush, decreasing weevil damage to acorns, maintaining young, straight plants for basketry, and cultivating tobacco to name a few.
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However, since indigenous peoples were torn from their lands and forbidden to practice their low-intensity burning practices, a tremendous amount of standing fuel has built up across our state.
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Roughly 200 years later, we are experiencing massive, raging forest fires that devastate the local ecology rather than invigorate it.
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Instead of 2-3 foot fires that would nourish the land and stimulate healthy plant growth, we now have fires that burn all the way up to the tree tops, and scorch our lands to a moonscape.
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With such resistance to managing the land how it was done for thousands of years, what else could we expect?
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If you’re curious to learn more about some of the indigenous practices in California one resource you can check out is Tending the Wild by M. Kat Anderson.
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Hiking out of a two-week staff training in Abel Ta

Hiking out of a two-week staff training in Abel Tasman National Park on New Zealand’s S. Island when I didn’t realize my wrist was broken, and was still loving life circa 2017. 🤷‍♂️😁
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Although I’m not on my international work/travel life, I’m throughly enjoying the life I’m leading!
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Here’s to an amazing fall full of connection, curiosity, place-based learning with @biocitizen_la 🌈✨🔥
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On World Shorebird Day I present a series of wonde

On World Shorebird Day I present a series of wonderful images captured from Alaska to the Caribbean.
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Found throughout the world, these long distance migrants are amongst the most threatened bird groups globally. 🌎🌏🌍
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In addition to the clear loss of habitat from development, climate change also plays a dramatic role in the population decline.
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As sea levels continue to rise, access to food they rely upon along their coastal habitats is in decline. 🌊
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If you’re able to contribute financially, these amazing orgs will certainly put your donation to work protecting our shorebirds!
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Catch me live again! I’ll be presenting Feather

Catch me live again!

I’ll be presenting Feathers and Flight alongside some incredible photographers and ornithologists!

Link in bio to see me live! ✨🌴🦜

Join me as I present for the Pomona Valley Audubon

Join me as I present for the Pomona Valley Audubon Society tonight!
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From Sea to Summit: The Marvelous Hummingbird
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From Alaska to the high Andes of South America, join us as we explore the magic of hummingbirds! With 360 species recognized globally, we’ll discuss their remarkable biology, expansive range, ecological significance and the best way to attract them to your yard! Mouth-watering media and local hummingbird ID section included!
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Do you have the Monday blues? I know I sure do! 😉

Do you have the Monday blues? I know I sure do! 😉 💙
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Well, in attempt to shake those blue away, I introduce to you another handsome member of the corvid family, and subject photographed in our local San Gabriel Mountains. ⛰
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Closely related to yesterday’s subject, the Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) differs slightly in some of its habits and habitat preferences.
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This big mohawk rocking bird lives predominantly in conifer forest or woodlands west of the Rocky Mountains. Preferring the cover of trees to bushes, all you gotta do is head up slope and as you transition from lowland habitat like riparian or chaparral and enter the conifers you will soon hear the grating calls of this beauty. 🌲🌲
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These birds travel in small family groups where they make short raucous flights, and hop from branch to branch looking for a quick meal. These like many other jays often harass food from other birds, and they even eat bird eggs! 😱
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Lastly these tricksters often imitate other bird calls. One they most famously mock is the Red-Tailed Hawk. So when you’re out and about and you hear a Red-tailed Hawk call that sounds either a little off, or is coming from low in the bushes, it might just be a Steller’s Jay!
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One of our more common residents here in Californi

One of our more common residents here in California is the California Scrub Jay (Aphelocoma californica). A highly intelligent and gorgeous member of the corvid family, these Jay’s are starting to get busy with all of their acorn antics this fall!
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Employing their near perfect spatial memory, Scrub Jays collect and stash acorns in fertile ground on the edges of their territory to feed upon during the less abundant time of winter.
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However, like I said, their spatial memory does have some gaps, and it is here, where many acorns remain buried treasure long enough to sprout and grow into baby oak trees.
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On the edge of oak woodlands, where these babies grow, also roam a variety of animals that like to feed upon the young trees.
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One such character is the quiet, tail flipping, forb grazing Mule Deer. However, when Mule Deer populations aren’t kept in check they overgraze young trees like Oaks, preventing necessary regrowth from occurring.
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One way to keep the Oak forests healthy with a diverse mosaic of trees is to maintain healthy mountain lion populations. Mountain Lions serve to balance the enormous populations of Mule Deer.
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A great way to keep our big cats healthy is to ban the use of fatal rodenticides that are killing our mountain lions! Keep our ecosystems healthy and get rid of rodenticides!
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Link-in-bio to check out this amazing piece of legislature from our friends @clawla
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Continuing with the theme of montane avians found

Continuing with the theme of montane avians found locally in Los Angeles, I present the regal Band-tailed Pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata).
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In the past I struggled to get good looks at these sometime tricky photography subject.
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However on a morning scouting mission in the San Gabriels I chanced upon a very cooperative group of birds.
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Often found in large flocks, these subtle yet remarkable Columbids feed on a variety of seeds and nuts, including acorns from the variety of Oak species found in the mountains here.
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A male White-headed woodpecker (Picoides albolarva

A male White-headed woodpecker (Picoides albolarvatus) hangs around the San Gabriel Mountains of the Angeles National Forest early this spring.
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A cooperative Crested Owl (Lophostrix cristata) hu

A cooperative Crested Owl (Lophostrix cristata) hunkers down while warm rains pelts our afternoon, deep in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. ✨🦉🌿
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Throwback to tropical sunsets, misty mornings, mos

Throwback to tropical sunsets, misty mornings, mosquito net onezies, and my nasty cast arm, circa 2017 🌴✨❤️
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Small but mighty, this Burrowing Owl (Athene cunic

Small but mighty, this Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) eyes me wearily from its driftwood perch along the Río Napo, in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon. ✨🌴📸
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Curious if I still had some goodies from the Amazo

Curious if I still had some goodies from the Amazon? Oh sure! There’s plenty of gems from deep in the jungle. 🌴💚
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Also, the caged bird pet trade is an ecologically devastating profession, that is both selfish and cruel. Leave parrots and other birds in the wild. You can look up some stats, but trust me, these birds belong wild and free. ❤️
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