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Early morning is a lovely time to walk along the Alamo River in Imperial County. It’s also a great time for these black skimmers to hunt, as seen in this video snapped by Associate Restoration Scientist Maddy Perreault. She caught the action while checking the autonomous recording unit and wildlife camera deployed on the Finney-Ramer Unit restoration project we’re leading with partners from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and California Conservation Corps.
One of California’s most distinctive waterbirds, the black skimmer is notable for its oversized red-and-black bill. It feeds primarily on small, surface-swimming fish, such as juvenile tilapia, small desert pupfish, and threadfin shad. The black skimmer flies low over smooth water, mostly during dusk, dawn, and at night when the water is at its calmest. Unlike many other seabirds, the black skimmer can effectively forage in low light or complete darkness, utilizing its lower mandible for tactile feeding as they skim it through the water’s surface. When the lower bill touches a fish, the upper bill instantly snaps shut.
Primarily a coastal species, the black skimmer has established an inland presence in the Imperial Valley. This region—specifically the Salton Sea—is its principal inland breeding and foraging stronghold in North America, nesting in dense, highly social colonies. They prefer low-lying, sparsely vegetated earthen islands, sandbars, and dried mudflats that protect them from ground-based predators like coyotes. Despite healthy and widespread populations in the Americas, the black skimmer is designated as a Species of Special Concern and is fully protected under the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Read more about what our staff are seeing in the field here: https://riverpartners.org/news/eyes-in-the-wild-a-river-partners-wildlife-journal-november-edition-2/
10 Nov 2026
Dos Rios Norte is showing off her fall colors! Oaks, grasses and shrubs are trading summer shades for fall foliage. Even the poison oak, while best known for its itchy rashes, turns a brilliant red and glows in the sunlight.
Sorry if this post made you itchy.
#fallfoliage🍁 #habitatrestoration #floodplains
03 Nov 2026
Together, we are creating a brighter future for California. We’ve restored more than 20,000 acres of floodplains, planted millions of native plants and created spaces for hundreds of species of wildlife. Every $1 donated helps us unlock up to $10 in public funding, multiplying the impact of your generosity. We’ve accomplished so much because we’re in this together. Help us keep going. Visit the “Donate” link in our bio to make a gift or head to riverpartners.org to learn more about our work and the impact we’re making together.
#california #floodplain #habitatrestoration
27 Oct 2026
Bat Week is October 24-31, and we love our bats! Here are a few reasons why:
🦇 Biodiversity: One in four mammal species on Earth is a bat, so protecting them protects a huge share of mammal diversity.
🦇 Natural pest control: Bats are the top predator of nocturnal insects, including a ton of crop pests, and save U.S. farmers an estimated $3.7 billion a year in pesticide use and crop losses
🦇 Provides ecosystem balance: Bats are tied to native plants, insects, and birds, so protecting them benefits the whole ecosystem
Last year in the Central Valley, River Partners deployed 24 autonomous recording units across eight sites in Merced and Stanislaus counties, with three at each of four future restoration sites and four previously restored sites. The units recorded the bats' echolocation for 30 nights and, thanks to key partners Bat Conservation International and Conservation Metrics, Inc., gave us information to better understand which bats live in the region, which of our sites they visit, and what they do. What we learned will help us in our future restoration planning.
Read more about how River Partners: https://riverpartners.org/news/what-bats-are-telling-us-about-life-in-the-central-valley/
📸 Bruce D. Taubert and Bat Conservation International
26 Oct 2026
Bureau of Land Management Wildlife Biologist Tobias Felbeck stood among the grasses at Rancho Breisgau in Shasta County, where River Partners began restoring 150 acres of floodplain habitat in 2024. Looking high into the trees through his binoculars, he was surprised by what he saw: a Swainson’s hawk, a species designated as threatened under California’s Endangered Species Act, in a mature sycamore next to the restored area along the Sacramento River. The female hawk sat in a nest along with an adult male and two fledglings, the first confirmed nesting Swainson’s hawks in Shasta County in about 30 years.
This wasn’t the only surprising bird sighting during this summer’s nesting season—and River Partners is seeing wildlife return to restored river habitats all around the state. In this case, the birds could have nested elsewhere, and they chose habitats that River Partners revitalized. The message they and other wildlife species are telling us is clear: Our restoration is working.
Read more about the wildlife species returning to restored riparian habitats all around the state: https://riverpartners.org/news/restored-riverside-habitat-is-welcoming-wildlife-back-across-california/
📸 Bureau of Land Management
23 Oct 2026
It’s Flood Preparedness Week, and River Partners is helping California prepare for winter storms by restoring floodplains throughout the state. To date, we have restored more than 20,000 acres of floodplains, giving rivers room to spread out, slow down and sink in when water levels rise.
In the San Joaquin Valley, we restored 2,100 acres of former flood-prone farmland into floodplains that are now part of Dos Rios State Park. When the land floods, underground aquifers are replenished with up to 7,000 acre-feet of water each year – about the same amount used by 21,000 homes annually. And during large releases from upstream dams, the restored floodplain can absorb up to 10,000 acre-feet of floodwater, reducing flood risk to local communities like Manteca and Stockton.
#floodplains #HabitatRestoration #California
Photo Description: Dos Rios during the floods of 2023. Photo Credit: River Partners
22 Oct 2026
We’ve shared news before about a sighting of the iconic Western monarch butterfly at our Chico headquarters. We’re thrilled to add another chapter to the story: Restoration Science Ecologist April Damanti reported that she found four monarch caterpillars roaming around and chomping on the showy milkweed we planted five years ago in front of our office. These tiny monarch caterpillars started as eggs laid on the underside of milkweed leaves. They’re pictured here in the larval stage, and they’ll grow significantly before forming a jade-green chrysalis. Meanwhile, these caterpillars happily munch on showy milkweed leaves, since milkweed is the only plant monarch caterpillars eat.
For us, seeing these caterpillars anywhere is inspiring. Four decades ago, Western monarchs numbered around 4.5 million. Today, that population has fallen more than 99 percent, driven by habitat loss, pesticides, and climate change—and the window to reverse the trend is narrowing fast.
River Partners has committed to a bold goal: planting 15 million milkweed plants across California by 2030 to support monarchs. We’ve been planting milkweed for two decades, and we’re now greatly increasing that effort, while also working with researchers to learn critical details, like how much milkweed is needed in the Central Valley, and how close together the plantings need to be for butterflies to use them. Our nonprofit native seed venture, Heritage Growers, is supplying seeds and plants for most of this effort.
Read more about what our staff are seeing in the field here: https://riverpartners.org/news/eyes-in-the-wild-a-river-partners-wildlife-journal-september-edition-2/
19 Oct 2026
Sometimes, proof that restoration is working comes from a partner in the field.
This summer, Bureau of Land Management Wildlife Biologist Tobias Felbeck was surveying birds at our 300-acre Rancho Breisgau project along the Sacramento River north of Red Bluff. He found about a dozen breeding pairs of lazuli buntings nesting in willow habitat we planted just two years ago and snapped this photo of one proudly holding a white-lined sphinx moth caterpillar.
Insects make up more than half of a lazuli bunting's diet in breeding season, so this is a good sign that the habitat is doing its job for wildlife.
See more of what our staff are seeing in the field: https://riverpartners.org/news/eyes-in-the-wild-a-river-partners-wildlife-journal-september-edition-2/
📸 Bureau of Land Management
15 Oct 2026
One of our trail cameras captured a gray fox on its nightly stroll at our 350-acre Hidden Valley Ranch restoration project just west of Modesto along the San Joaquin River. And in the background, a great horned owl watches. Both notice and are wary of each other.
Some inter-species interactions are mutually beneficial, tolerated, or merely ignored—this is not one of them. The owl’s wide-eyed, fixed stare indicates it is fully locked onto the fox, seeing it as a potential threat or rival, not a friendly neighbor.
The gray fox finds its home across brushlands, chaparral, oak woodlands, and riparian corridors. In the Central Valley, they like dense brushy understories, dry creek beds, and agricultural or orchard edges with abundant cover and accessible prey. Their diet shifts with the seasons—primarily hunting small mammals like cottontail rabbits and rodents —and they also eat insects, birds, and all kinds of native fruits and berries. Meanwhile, the great horned owl, a powerful apex hunter, will occasionally prey on small mammals or kit foxes. A full-grown gray fox, however, is probably too large to be regular prey, so aggressive behavior toward each other when their paths cross is usually on the menu instead.
Read more about what our staff are seeing in the field here: https://riverpartners.org/news/eyes-in-the-wild-a-river-partners-wildlife-journal-september-edition-2/
13 Oct 2026
Members of our science team were collecting native seeds in the Amargosa Basin near Death Valley as part of routine fieldwork. The seeds collected on this day were given to Heritage Growers, our nonprofit native seed venture, to grow out for our Amargosa River restoration work. The team eventually found this patch of Screwbean Mesquite. Part of the legume family, this tree can grow up to 30 feet tall, features iconic, spiral seed pods, and is a critical piece of this delicate ecosystem. Its extensive root system helps stabilize stream banks and reduce erosion during seasonal flash floods. Screwbean Mesquite is also food for a wide range of desert wildlife. The foliage is an essential larval host plant for butterfly and moth species, pollinators are attracted to its nectar- and pollen-filled clusters of flowers, and its dense, twiggy canopy offers protective nesting, respite from the heat, and safety for desert birds and small mammals. Screwbean Mesquite has experienced significant die-off in the Amargosa watershed and is one of the native plants River Partners is bringing back to the region.
09 Oct 2026
🔥 Our screening in Davis, CA is coming in HOT! 🔥
Join us next Thursday (October 15) at the Veterans Memorial Theater and, not only will you get to see the film, you can also join in with a Q&A with the filmmakers, AND meet NorCal Bat’s ambassador bats!
The bats have blessed us with their presence in the past and it’s always an honor to get to spend time with actual bats after watching them on the big screen. Doors open at 6pm, the screening starts at 6:30pm. Costumes are very much encouraged, especially those with a bat and vampire theme!
Get your tickets now 👉 link in bio.
A huge thank you to our screening partners for their support - Yolo Basin Foundation @yolobasinfoundation, NorCal Bats @norcalbats, Sacramento State @sacstate California Fish & Wildlife @californiadfw , California Rice Foundation @californiarice, Delta Conservancy @deltaconservancy and River Partners @riverpartners 🙏
09 Oct 2026
Come catch a screening of the documentary "The Invisible Mammal" at the Veterans Memorial Theater on Thursday, October 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Theater in Davis, Calif. The cast, crew, and screening partners will host the event, and it's just in time for #BatWeek.
Purchase tickets by scanning the QR code or at the website: https://events.humanitix.com/the-invisible-mammal-davis
06 Oct 2026
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