WILD LIFE in the NORTH HILLS
Flora and Fauna of Claremont Canyon, Oakland, California
HISTORY and RESEARCH - links to the past
Birds of a Berkeley Hillside, by Amelia Sanborn Allen. Published in The Condor, vol. 17, no. 2,
March, 1915. [Notes from Strawberry Canyon area.] 8 pg. PDF.
Birds of a Berkeley Hillside...
Spring Arrival of Summer Residents in the Berkeley Area, California, by Henry G. Weston, Jr..
Published in The Condor, vol. 50, no.2, March, 1948. 2 pg. PDF. NB: In this article, the bird labeled
Pileolated Warbler is now called Wilson's Warbler; the bird called Tolmie Warbler is now called McGillivray’s
Warbler.
Spring Arrival of Summer Residents...
A New Race of Black-chinned Sparrow from the San Francisco Bay District, by Alden H. Miller. Published in
The Condor, vol. 31, no.5, Sept./Oct. 1929. 3 pg. PDF. [June 10, 1928, three males were heard on the steep, south-facing slope of Claremont Canon, again in Baccharis and Artemisia brush. A female was located in company of a male and shortly the pair was observed feeding young just out of the nest.]
A New Race of Black-chinned Sparrow...
The Tragical Addition of a New Bird to the Campus List, by Richard Hunt. Published in
The Condor, vol. 20, no.3, May 1918. 2 pg. PDF. [Short-eared Owl predated by Great Horned
Owl on hillside above Haste Street, between Strawberry and Claremont Canyons.]
Tragical Addition of a New Bird...
The Flock Behavior of the Coast Bush-tit, by R. C. Miller. Published in The Condor,
vol. 23, no.4, July, 1921. 7 pg. PDF. ["...unlikely that the number of birds in Strawberry Canyon would
be augmented by an invasion of Bush-tits from Claremont Canyon, or vice versa."]
Flock Behavior ...
Callophrys eryphon (Lycaenidae) [Western Pine Elfin / Western Banded Elfin butterfly] Colonizes Urban and Suburban San Francisco Bay Area, California, Using Planted Monterey Pine, by Jerry A. Powell. Published in Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, vol. 51, no. 2, 1997. 4 pg. PDF. [There is no record of this butterfly in the East Bay area (Contra Costa and Alameda counties) prior to 1989.]
Callophrys eryphon...
Mass movements of Nymphalis californica (Boisduval) [California Tortoiseshell butterfly] in the San Francisco Bay area during 1971 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), by Jerry A. Powell. Published in Pan-Pacific Entomologist, Vol. 48, no. 2, 1972. 1 pg. PDF. [During October 1971, I observed movements of N. californica in the Berkeley Hills, Alameda County, at a site above the Caldecott Tunnel (about 1,400 feet elevation).]
Nymphalis californica-1...
Population Expansions and Mass Movements of Nymphalis californica (Nymphalidae) [California Tortoiseshell butterfly], by Jerry A. Powell. Published in Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, Vol. 26, No.4, 1972. 4 pg. PDF.
[In the Berkeley Hills near San Francisco Bay the butterflies were flying southeastward, along the axis of the hill ridge, at rates of 1.5 to 11/minute on a 50-foot sighting line during midday on 5, 7, and 12 October and were absent on 14 and 28 October (Powell, 1972).] Nymphalis californica-2...
The Lichens of Claremont Canyon, by Janet Doell, Judy Robertson, Shelly Benson and Tom Carlberg. Published in Bulletin of the California Lichen Society, Vol. 16, No.2, Winter 2009. 6 pg. PDF. [In a 2009 survey of Claremont Canyon, 81 lichen species were identified. Report includes brief descriptions of survey locations.] Lichen Survey.
Notes on the Habits of the Long-Tailed Harvest Mouse, by Clarence F. Smith. "... of this species in the vicinity
of Berkeley is located just below the summit of Skyline Ridge, between Claremont Canyon and the head of Bancroft Way. ...
"Published in Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Aug., 1936), pp. 274-278 (article consists of 5 pages)
Published by: American Society of Mammalogists.
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Backyard Bandits: including raccoons and other exciting patio visitors, by David D. Oliphant, Jr.
[the great uncle of a third-generation hill dwelling neighbor] Illustrated by Lynn Maxwell. 140 pages. Healdsburg,
CA: Naturegraph Publishers, 1968. Out of print; some copies for sale on the web. One dealer says "In addition to
raccoons, the backyard bandits include a mountain lion, wildcats, foxes, deer, skunks, opossums, weasels, wood rats
and mice, reptiles, birds, and insects."
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