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Hawk With Nail In Head Sought In San Francisco Golden Gate Park
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — A wildlife rescue group tried unsuccessfully for a third day Wednesday to capture and rescue a red-tailed hawk in a San Francisco park that appears to have been shot in the...
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Injured Gull Spotted In SF’s Golden Gate Park Again
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — An injured mew gull with a fishing lure caught in its beak was spotted at Golden Gate Park again Sunday, dashing hopes that it might have shaken the lure loose and recovered,...
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‘Devil Birds’ Spotted Moving In On San Francisco’s Lake Merced Area
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — An aggressive bird species that preys on the eggs of other birds and is known to make quite a racket has been sighted in San Francisco. As many as six male and two female...
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San Jose Airport Workers May Get Permission To Shoot Birds Near Runway
SAN JOSE (CBS/AP) — Rules allowing the shooting of birds at San Jose’s airport are getting revised. Birds pose a deadly danger to aircraft that strike them or ingest them into jet intakes. The San Jose...
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Neighbors Fear Baby Birds Massacred In Woodchipper During Oakland Post Office...
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_0705201417084061887AA.mp4 OAKLAND (CBS SF) – Oakland residents say rare birds were slaughtered during an Oakland tree-trimming project on behalf of the...
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Rare Albatross Spotted Off Pillar Point In 2nd Sighting In North America
HALF MOON BAY (CBS SF) — A rare seabird has been spotted for just the second time in North America, this time off the California coast. The Salvin’s Albatross was spotted about 25-miles off shore from...
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Reward Offered For Information Leading To Shooter Of Great Blue Heron In...
HOLLISTER (KCBS) — A $5,050 reward has been offered by a wildlife group for information leading to the arrest of the person who shot a Great Blue Heron in Hollister last week. The injured bird was...
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Mystery Goo Now Blamed For Killing At Least 80 East Bay Shorebirds
ALAMEDA (CBS SF) – Wildlife experts are still tying to identify a mystery substance that has now covered and killed at least 80 birds on the East Bay shoreline. The gray, sticky material has no odor...
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Rare California Condor Poisoned By Lead Recovering At Oakland Zoo
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_20150603222739553AA.mp4 OAKLAND (CBS SF) — A rare California condor is recovering nicely at the Oakland zoo after being brought in with alarmingly high...
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Turkey Vulture Sparks Martinez Wildfire After Shorting Out Between Power Lines
MARTINEZ (CBS SF) — A wildfire sparked by a turkey vulture that caught fire after shorting out two power lines according to a witness burned parts of an RV and two properties in Martinez Tuesday...
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Budding Serial Killer? Decapitated Animals Found By Railroad Tracks In...
SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) — Officials in Sacramento are raising the alarm after finding more decapitated animals along the city’s light rail tracks, bringing the total number to more than a dozen since...
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CHP Officer Rescues Bird In Traffic On Sonoma County Road
ROHNERT PARK (CBS SF) — An immobilized blue jay escaped being killed in traffic Saturday afternoon in unincorporated Sonoma County, thanks to the efforts of an observant California Highway Patrol...
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Complete Dodo Skeleton Sells For $416K To Private Collector
LONDON (AP) — Summers Place Auctions has sold a composite dodo skeleton to a private collector for 336,100 pounds ($416,300), including buyer’s premium. The unique specimen of a creature once found on...
View ArticleLoose Bird In Cockpit Forces Delta Captain To Turn Plane Around
DETROIT (AP) — It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s a bird on a plane. A Delta Air Lines flight captain decided to turn his plane around and return to Detroit after a bird was discovered inside the...
View ArticleSan Francisco Officials Consider Suing Over Scooter Clutter
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — The increasing popularity of electric rental scooters popping up on sidewalks all over San Francisco has city officials mulling legal action against the scooter start-ups. City...
View ArticleSan Francisco Supervisors Approve Permit System For Electric Scooters
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved an ordinance requiring dockless scooter share companies to obtain permits for the powered vehicles before operating on...
View ArticleSan Francisco Public Works Confiscates More E-Scooters Citing Complaints
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Crews with the San Francisco Department of Public Works Wednesday afternoon began confiscating multiple powered dockless scooters throughout the city, for what the department’s...
View ArticleTruce May Be In Works In San Francisco’s Scooter Wars
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Every one seems to have an opinion when it comes rental scooters in San Francisco. “I think that these scooters run amok are actually a plot of the young people to kill off all...
View ArticleSan Francisco To Temporarily Remove All Electric Scooters From Streets
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – Officials announced Thursday that the ubiquitous electric scooters in San Francisco will be removed from city streets in two weeks as a new permit process is implemented. The...
View ArticleElectric Scooter Riders on Bay Bridge Caught on Camera
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – Another black eye for one of the electric scooter companies currently under fire in San Francisco Friday when video surfaced of two people trying to ride the vehicles on the...
View ArticleScooter Companies Clear Vehicles From San Francisco Streets
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – The streets of San Francisco on Monday were mostly free of what some see as a two-wheeled nuisance with the arrival of the deadline for electric scooter companies to remove...
View ArticleElectric Scooter Company Bird Now Valued At $2 Billion
(CNN Money) — Scooter rental startup Bird Rides is now valued at $2 billion after a recent $300 million funding round, according to a source close to the matter. That’s a fast rise for the Los...
View ArticleOakland City Council Approves Electric Scooter Regulations
OAKLAND (CBS SF) – The Oakland City Council formally approved on Monday night an ordinance establishing regulations and requiring permits for shared dockless electric scooters, in light of frequent...
View ArticleNew Study On Electric Scooters Points Out Danger Of Head Injuries
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — A new study conducted in Southern California shows that electric scooters are sending riders to the emergency room, many of them with serious injuries. In San Francisco,...
View ArticleLyft Launches E-Scooter Service In San Jose
SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) — Lyft became the third operator to launch e-scooters in San Jose Thursday, but was also the first to be officially permitted under the city’s new regulations set to go into effect...
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