BioBlitz results!

Thank you so much for joining our second Almaden Quicksilver BioBlitz! We recorded close to a thousand observations of 230 species, which is quite amazing, considering the timing - the end of fall, before the rain. Most of the flowers were already gone, many of the galls already dropped to the ground, and fungi and slime molds haven't emerged yet.
We documented 80 species of plants, including at least 6 of our native oak species, we noticed toyon bushes heavy with berries, and last years buckeye seeds ready to germinate when the rain will finally arrive. Lichens are especially difficult to identify (and notice), and we were lucky to have lichen experts on board, documenting 32 lichen species!!
We were also lucky to have expert birders with us, documenting 31 bird species, including 4 woodpecker species, and 14 observations of wild turkeys...
We documented almost 70 arthropod species, many of them are gall wasps. The high diversity of oak species contributes to the hike diversity of gall wasps - 20 species! Many of the galls on the white oaks - valley oaks and blue oaks - already dropped to the grounds, but we were still able to find some. The rest will drop soon. This park has an unusual high diversity of coast live oak galls - we documented 7 species! Interestingly, we saw both the spring and the summer generations of some of the species.
We hope to see you on our future events!
You can find all our future events here - https://www.bioblitz.club/
Merav

Posted on November 20, 2019 06:52 PM by merav merav

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