Bird watching at Coal Oil Point and Goleta - May 12, 2007
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Devereux Slough
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Devereux Slough
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Audubon Restoration Project
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Devereux Slough
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Sands Beach - COPR
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Ellwood beach has lots of sand
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Sands Beach - COPR
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Sands Beach - COPR
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Area marked off so plovers can nest
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Sands Beach - COPR
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Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
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Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
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Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
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Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
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Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
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Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
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Spring plumage
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Sanderling, Sands Beach - COPR
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Studies by local biologists maintain that rotting kelp contributes to the food chain. Birds who eat creatures living in the sand benefit from the kelp washed up on the beach.