Amazing News! The National Wildlife Refuge Association will present the 2022 Molly Krival Refuge Friends Group of the Year Award to the Friends of the Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge. This award will recognize the group as the outstanding Friends group in the entire United States for the year 2022. A prize of $2,000 [...]
Channel filled with fish Marine life, how close it is. Have you ever visited a saltwater marsh and explored its marine life? There is one nearby at the Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge. Life will begin here for many sea creatures and it will also be the destination of many birds on [...]
Eyes on the Colony Least Tern Monitoring at Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge: By Carolyn Vance, USFWS Volunteer, Seal Beach NWR Volunteers Needed Eyes on the Colony (EOTC), the California Least Tern predator monitoring program, needs your help! Last year was not as successful as it could have been with no more than 16 [...]
They’re Here! Its mid-November and all of Orange County’s Most Wanted birds, except for the Nelson’s Sparrow, are at the Refuge. Here is a recap of birds and what all I’ve been seeing this month: Wanted Birds Burrowing Owl, Photo credit: Carolyn Vance Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) – This adorable little owl [...]
Special Birding Tours Start Our 2017-2018 Special Birding Tours at the Refuge started off with Santa Monica Audubon Society. This Chapter hasn’t been out here in many years, so it was a pleasure to show them around again. Santa Monica Audubon Society at SBNWR Refuge Manager Rick Nye plus Volunteers John Fitch [...]
Sea Turtle’s Travels Green Sea Turtle Our Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) got bored hanging around the Nature Center, so we all hopped in the Pelican Van and motored on out to Cabrillo Marine Aquarium’s Autumn Sea Fair on November 19, 2017. Preferring to be chauffeured and wanting to share his adventure, he [...]
Fall Migration is Here! Carolyn Vance Fall Migration is on and birds are flying south to spend the cold winter months at our Refuge! Every day is a treat to be out seeing what new birds have arrived that day. Here are some of the birds seen so far. September and October Birds: [...]
Carolina Sphinx Moth Discovered! Carolina Sphinx Moth A Carolina Sphinx Moth was finally identified as what we saw glowing red in our spotlights during the August Night Mammal Survey at the Refuge. Dozens of them were seen flying around over the agriculture fields. A large moth, gray in color, with indistinct black [...]
National Public Lands Day 2017 Toyota Volunteer 2017 Team Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge and The U.S. Navy welcomes, the Toyota Volunteer 2017 Team. Toyota Motor North America, is the Corporate sponsor of (NPLD) National Public Lands Day 2017. Toyota Volunteers once again have stepped up and have given assistance to the [...]
Recently introduced Volunteers keeping the Refuge clean! Visitors and residents can now see the results of the "NEW " program, Adopt-a-Highway. Recently introduced as a new program and volunteer activity of the Friends of Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge. The State of California allows individuals or groups to participate in this program designed to keep our [...]
