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A cluster of overwintering monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in Santa Cruz county. In 2020, a count in November registered less than 2000 individuals, down from 300,000 a few years ago, and many millions decades ago. Experts fear that they may vanish entirely and soon. We can try to help them by planting native nectar plants and conserving habitat. Hopefully this was not one of the last years of the monarch aggregations in Santa Cruz.

The California giant salamander (Dicamptodon ensatus) is among the largest terrestrial salamanders of North America. This particular species is found in the humid forests North and South of San Francisco Bay.

A California condor (Gymnogyps californianus), from Pinnacles National park. In the late 1980s, the population of these birds dropped to 27 individuals and all remaining individuals were taken into captivity for breeding programs. Since then over 1000 condors have hatched mostly in captive breeding programs but also in the wild. Nearly all adults are numbered for monitoring - this is #726 a female called Little Stinker, she was hatched at San Diego Wild Animal park in 2013 and released into the wild in 2016 and is named after the winning plane in the US Female Aerobatic Championship in the late 1940s.